Posts Tagged Security
O2 & Mobile Browsing
Posted by gavomatic57 in Communications, Hardware, Internet on January 25, 2012
O2 customers had a bit of a fright this morning when news of a little flaw in the way the carrier was allowing websites to identify you over 3G started spreading across the internet. When you use the internet with any device, whether it is a phone, tablet, PC, Mac or even a PS3 the [...]
Macworld.co.uk: After MacDefender, Linux looks better than ever
Posted by gavomatic57 in Linux, Mac OSX on June 21, 2011
During my lunchtime browse through the internet with my cheese & ham roll and steaming cup of black coffee, I struck upon this curious article on Macworld.co.uk. It’s written by Katherine Noyes (PCWorld.com) who is forever the butt of many of the Apple pundit’s jibes, but it still surprised me that it appeared on Macworld. [...]
Opera Mini a security risk?
Posted by gavomatic57 in iOS on April 15, 2010
Whilst having my almost daily Youtube session, one of my subscriptions – Soldierknowsbest – posted a video regarding the Opera Mini iPhone app. Apparently an article on Yahoo here suggests that due to the way Opera servers sit between your phone and the internet you have a potential weakness in the chain. Opera mini gets its speed from decrypting, compressing and converting your browsing to Opera’s own markup language before finally re-encrypting and passing it on to its final destination.
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