Online column

A weekly tech column written for The Southland Times, a company that pays well enough to keep me in handbags and Drambuie

Plugin sinks drunken tweets

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) There’s some good news for those of you who drink and browse in the form of the Social Media Sobriety Test. A news report on Stuff this week says the plugin for Firefox web browsers has been devised by an American internet security firm as

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Protect yourself online

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) We’re a pretty tech-savvy bunch and Kiwis in general are pretty quick to jump on-board with new gadgets, but we might not be so good at protecting ourselves for the dangers lurking out there. A press release on the Unisys Security Index that landed in

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Let’s take this seriously

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) While I absolutely adore the internet and would rather give up coffee again than go without my web fix, there are some things I’d happily change. I’m sure that by now you all know my feelings on spammers, scammers, phishers, hackers and all the other

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Email scammers never give up

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) That farmer bloke up north might have won $28.7 million in the Powerball draw last week but I’ve had an even more exciting week, with lots of lottery wins and a new friend in Nigeria. My email inbox brings such an extraordinary range of delights

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Safety behind Windows

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) I hope you’re all fit and well after Microsoft’s big security fix on Tuesday. According to reports it was the company’s biggest-ever fix, with a whopping 16 patches addressing 49 problems in its products. Yes, I can hear the anti-Microsoft brigade out there doing the

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Snowbound, with no power

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) By the time you read this, I will (if all goes according to plan) be somewhere on the Gold Coast with a glass of wine in one hand and a good book in the other. When I went to work on Friday morning (September 17) ,

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