This is quite a tried and true tip… leave some money in a conspicuous location and should your home ever be broken into the burglars will most likely settle for what is on offer – as it were – rather than risking a longer foray trying to find further valuables.
Your best strategy, then, is to [...]

In the same way a lot of data thought to be deleted from a computer hard drive can be restored, so to can paper documents that have been shredded, so long as they have been shredded in a certain way:
In a typical reconstruction process, technicians feed all the available shreds into a scanner. An automated [...]

New technology using key-based encryption will soon give people the option of allowing email messages and other forms of electronic data to “self delete”, or vanish, after a certain period of time.
The pieces of the key, small numbers, tend to “erode” over time as they gradually fall out of use. To make keys erode, or [...]

Usability expert Jakob Nielsen argues that password masking – where asterisks or dots are displayed while typing a password – has few security benefits and, worse still, encourages the use of overly simple passwords as users believe them to be truly hidden.
Password masking has become common for no reasons other than (a) it’s easy to [...]

The authenticity – or otherwise – of an email can usually quickly be ascertained by looking at the message’s header data, and makes for one way of working out whether the bank really is sending you all those emails.
I can send you an email now that basically says I’m your boss, but unless you look [...]

What is it with social networks that compel us to publish all manner of information that we would consider private in another context? Is the desire for 15 minutes of fame heightened when we can’t actually see – or don’t have direct contact with – our “public” (that is friends) or something?
Perhaps I’ve been [...]

Iris scanning technology is now being used at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport which, among other benefits, allows members of the Privium ClubLounge to speed up the airline boarding procedure.
A picture is taken of your iris, from which a maximum of 256 measurements are made. These measurements create a pattern of light and dark that is unique [...]

In a long, but rivetting read, Leonardo Notarbartolo talks about his part in the incredible 2003 Antwerp Diamond Center heist, where up to US$100 million worth of diamonds and jewellery were stolen from a vault that was meant to be impenetrable.
The vault was thought to be impenetrable. It was protected by 10 layers of security, [...]

Update: there seems to be some sort of resolution, though it’s still not as speedy as the previous password unlock method, but when calling NAB say “unlock internet banking password” when asked to describe your query. You will be directed to the telephone banking system and will be able to unlock your password.
I don’t really [...]

Statistically speaking, today is when online viruses and worms are at their most rampant. Hell, as if it’s not bad enough that is Monday, why not log off and simply come back tomorrow?
Better for your computer, better for you. :)
After analysing information on viruses and internet worms taken from more than 500,000 machines around the [...]