by Alan van Gysen | Apr 5, 2020 | BEC scams, Becybaware, Cyber Safe, Cyber Safety at Home, Cybersecurity, Fraud, Kids & Digital, Kids & Tech, Phishing, Social Media, Uncategorized, User Awareness
We have been overrun these past few months with everything Coronavirus, COVID-19-related, and with it, a near-constant stream of information and disinformation sent to us/available from/on every platform known and used by man. The world has gone a little crazy. The...
by Alan van Gysen | Mar 3, 2020 | Becybaware, Cameras and Microphones, Cyber Safe, Cyber Safety at Home, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data sharing, Geolocation, Identity Theft, Kids & Digital, Kids & Tech, Social Media, The Internet of Things, Uncategorized, User Awareness, Webcam
Are we being spied on via our cameras and microphones on our personal devices? Built-in device cameras and microphones are great. They allow us to easily communicate face-to-face with friends and family even if they are on the other side of the globe. They allow...
by Alan van Gysen | Feb 11, 2020 | Cyber Safe, Cyber Safety at Home, Data sharing, Fraud, Identity Theft, Kids & Digital, Kids & Tech, Online gaming, Social Media
When it comes to games – especially online gaming, it’s one thing to play, but it’s altogether something else to be played! Three interesting facts about the global online gaming industry… The worth of the PC online game market worldwide is expected to...
by Alan van Gysen | Apr 8, 2019 | Becybaware, Cloud Security, Cyber Safe, Cyber Safety at Home, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data sharing, Identity Theft, Kids & Digital, Kids & Tech, Smart Phone Security, Social Media, User Awareness
It’s safe to say Facebook isn’t safe. Just last month (Thursday 21 March 2019) Facebook announced yet another data breach – the third in a year (we know of), this time involving up to 600 million passwords stored in plain text and exposed internally to up to...
by Alan van Gysen | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Cyber Safe, Cyber Safety at Home, Cybersecurity, Kids & Digital, Kids & Tech, User Awareness
Kids & Tech it’s all screens, keys and device-driven “entertainment” If you were born before 1982, chances are you remember growing up playing Monopoly on weekends, ball games in the garden after school with a neighbour and riding your bike whenever...
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