Your Choice of Password May Be Letting You Down Passwords. We have them everywhere now. Whether it's the PIN (Personal Identification Number) for your ATM card, the password that logs you into your email account, or to set up your Internet Router, we have this need for security that our money, our personal details and our private information is kept away from people we'd rather not let near them. However, your choice of password can let you down and even though you think you are safe, you could be leaving the doors wide open to unsavoury characters who don't think ...

Botnets are networks of computers which have been invaded by malicious code which allows them to be controlled by cyber criminals. Typically owners of machines that are part of a botnet are completely unaware that their computer has been hijacked. It has been suggested that 95% of all attacks mounted by botnet are from home computers; mainly because most people do not understand how to or why they should secure their PC. Botnets are most commonly used to send spam and harvest private data from infected machines. However, they are also used to swamp websites with requests to knock them offline ...