These days we are being forced, and choosing, to make many of our purchases online. From paying bills to buying trinkets on eBay, more...

I'm not going to bang on about the old days. I'm just going to say that these days everybody needs at least 2 email addresses. I've...

Every so often the things designed to protect are the very things that kill us. I was reminded of that this week when an article about...

Recently my wife and I noticed that we were getting scam phone calls from numbers that were only a digit or two away from our own...

...they keep calling back and pretending to be someone else. Recently a customer of mine was taken in by a scam caller. The scammers...

It seems every other post on social media is asking us to participate in some fun and seemingly innocent game. While this may, MAY, be...

I bang on a lot about passwords. Just check this lot out here (all my previous blog posts on passwords): https://www.ihatemypc.com.au/blo...

There's a lot of talk about how to create passwords and how secure they need to be and how they need to be unique and multi-factor...

The COVIDsafe app and its lack off effectiveness seem to have been forgotten. But that's the funny thing about the data it has collected,...

Recently one of my customers came to me with a very strange problem... His Sent Items folder in his email just kept growing and growing....

For the average person, who just wants to be safe on the internet, it can be very tricky to know what software you need to protect you...

It is easy to poke fun at the government for how they "do" technology. I know, I am regularly forced (forced damn it) to lampoon the...

The answer is almost certainly yes. Many of us with a smart phone and social media have experienced having a "random" conversation with...

The scammers go to considerable lengths to separate you from your money. I'm selling a car on Gumtree at the moment and a second more...

Have your eyes glazed over already? Don't worry, I'm really going to keep this simple. To that end I'll answer the question before...

Recently a video by Jim Browning showed up on my YouTube feed. It was about putting the wind up scammers by finding out their details and...

As you may imagine, a number of my previous blog posts have been about email... https://www.ihatemypc.com.au/blog/search/email ...but...

With Firefox making a pain of itself (https://www.ihatemypc.com.au/post/firefox-is-freezing-no-irony-detected), and Microsoft Edge...

For nearly 10 years I have been working with (read: helping/volunteering) Scott Dufty at the KCEC / KHBEC with business events,...

[UPDATE: According to 9 News, which should be taken with a grain of salt, the COVIDsafe app has failed to identify even 1 new case of...