Category: March

Continuing the mini-series of posts about online security, In this installment, I’ll discuss the use of HTMLv5 for tracking purposes. As always, before I explain how you can be tracked with this technology, I need to explain how it works, so you can understand the processes involved. The HTMLv5 standard […]

In my last post, I talked about the use of cookies by companies when they want to track our online browsing activities. Well, cookies are just one of a number of technologies used by companies to get our data. In this post, I’ll take a look at the use of […]

Reducing the number of tracking technologies employed by websites is one thing I’m quite passionate about. For me, the web has become too much of a commercial space with more and more people and companies wanting to know everything about us, with the primary aim of targeting us with personalised […]

Staying anonymous online is becoming a difficult thing to achieve, but to be honest, for the majority of people, it’s not really something we should be too worried about. There are some things however, which we might want to protect with a little bit of anonymity. If you’ve been following […]

What’s on your network? Whilst I understand that not everyone is a computer geek, or has the time to manage their home network properly, I firmly believe that everyone should have a good grasp on what is running on their network. To discover what’s on your network there are a […]

In this post, I’ll take a look at how you can check to see what issues might be present in your IT setup. Nessus Nessus is a professional vulnerability scanner made by a company called Tenable which allows you to scan the devices in your network and look for potential […]

In this installment of my mini-series on protecting your online activity, I’m going to discuss VPNs. What is a VPN? A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that allows you to create a secure and private connection over the internet. It works by creating an encrypted tunnel between your […]

In this 2nd installment of my mini-series about staying safe in an ever-increasing online world, I’m going to take a look at antivirus & anti-malware solutions. Anti-malware vs Antivirus The terms anti-malware, and antivirus are very similar and can be a bit confusing to some with regards to what they […]

So far in my 365 days of blogs, the biggest majority of my posts have been about the threats that face us when living in a digital world. So I thought it time to focus a bit more on the defensive side of security. In this mini-series of posts, I […]