Radio Smart Talk for Monday, September 12:
Have you ever been the victim of a cyber criminal or miscreant (how often do you get to use that word?) -- someone who has attempted to steal your personal information or just cause mischief on your social network accounts? Computers, iPads, cell phones -- the more devices we use in our lives unfortunately makes us more vulnerable -- unless protective steps are taken.
For example, changing one's password is a simple barrier to warding off cyber intruders, but it's one not enough of us decide to practice.
On Monday's Radio Smart Talk, we'll follow up on a program produced last month on cyber security. Time ran out on the show before we could answer all your questions so that's what we intend to do.
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Sorry we were not able to address everyone's question on-air this morning. There have not been many security products released yet for iPhone and iPad. My best recommendation is to make sure you keep the software updated. When you plug your device into iTunes, click on the iPhone or iPad device along the left hand side of the screen, and choose the 'Check for Updates' button in the middle of the screen. Apply any updates that are available. We should soon start seeing more and more security products commercially available, so keep an eye out for those. If you have any other questions, post them here and we'll try to get you an answer!
Ian Watkins
Wy Networks
What about older macs vs new intel macs vs iPhone vs pc for security? I just had a virus send out emails on my aol addresses. I synch on my pc vista laptop to iPhone and get email ony iPhone.
Great question, unfortunately we were not able to get to them all on-air this morning. While older "PowerPC" Macs should continue to work well, the biggest problem is they are not capable of running the newer Mac OSX operating systems like Snow Leopard and Lion. The newer OSX versions have many security enhancements not found on older OSX versions. So it's worth considering upgrading to a newer Intel Mac for security alone.
Vista on your PC is a bit better, but also suffers from a some security holes that are not present in newer Windows 7. My advice would be to upgrade, or purchase one of the 'Total Protection' security software suites from companies like Mcafee, Norton, Sophos, or Symantec. My guess is your PC got infected by some kind of malware (malicious software) that sent out email to all you AOL contacts.
Ian Watkins
Wy Networks
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