With more and more people gaining access to the Internet every day, the importance of ensuring that you and your information remain secure while using the Internet for personal or business reasons cannot be stressed enough. Cyber attacks, viruses, malware, and unwanted intrusions into “secure” computing systems occur frequently and these issues cannot be completely […]
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Want Better Security on the Internet Without the Hard Work? Try DD-WRT
Want Better Security On The Internet Without The Hard Work? You Should Try DD-WRT Each year, computer hardware manufacturers align their designs more closely to the open source technologies. When a piece of hardware is open source, it’s firmware doesn’t need to come from the manufacturer. It can come from an open source firmware project.
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Small Business Security: Tips to Prevent Cyber Criminals From Stealing Your Data
Many small business owners falsely believe that a large majority of cyber criminals target big businesses. Well think again! According to an internet security threat report by Symantec, half of all attacks in 2012 were aimed at businesses with fewer than 2,500 employees.
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Being Hacked is a Bad Thing. But Not Taking Control After Is Worse
A list of the major tech companies that have fallen to hackers in recent times reads like a Who’s Who – Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote and so on. Hackers go after the passwords placed with these large Internet companies for a reason – they wish to use them to hack into those subscribers’ accounts. When […]
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Spam, And How To Avoid It
Spam — the canned meat that everybody loves to hate. It fed the troops through WWII. It’s shipped across the world to Third World Countries to feed the starving. And, in most cases, it’s only tolerated because it does just that—it staves off starvation.
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Going Incognito in Google Chrome
If you are using Google Chrome as your Web browser, you can open an incognito window at any time to surf the Internet in stealth mode. Going incognito in Google Chrome preserves your privacy by automatically removing all website cookies, browsing logs and download histories. However, going incognito will not prevent the websites that you […]
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VPNs and Security
VPNs and You On today’s Internet, security is a major concern. From wanting to protect financial transactions to simply wishing to browse without every site you visit being scrutinized, there are a lot of reasons to wish for privacy and protection. One of the simplest, yet all-around strongest ways in which to protect your Internet […]
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Things You Should Know About Web Browsing
Browsing the Internet can be a lot of fun to do. Across the Internet’s vast landscape are endless quantities of information and the number of files available continue to rise each and every day. However, there are a few potential problems with the Internet; privacy and safety. Staying safe in a virtual sea of potential […]
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How to:Maintaining Anonymity Online
Many people are concerned about their privacy and anonymity when using a computer or browsing the internet. This article gives an overview of some tools to protect against identity theft, spyware, malware and other nefarious threats that could potentially jeopardize an online experience.
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Anti-malware reviews:Spyware Cease review
Spyware Cease is well-recognized for being a powerful and high quality anti-spyware program. It offers the perfect solution for spywares and viruses that tend to continuously and harmfully spread all over the internet. This program continues to receive great reviews and excellent feedback due to its ability to deliver what it promises.
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What is Keylogger Software?
Keyloggers are programs which record each keystroke on the computer they are installed on. This provides a complete log of text entered such as passwords, emails sent and websites visited.
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How to Use Avast Free Antivirus Software
Running and maintaining an antivirus program is an unfortunate but necessary expense for many computer users. The problem comes from the fact that you have to buy not just the program itself but also a subscription package that updates the program’s virus definitions. Outdated definitions mean insufficient protection, which means that your computer is vulnerable […]
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5 Tips for Improving IT Security in Your Company
As your business grows, so does the threat of security breaches compromising your company’s IT systems. For any business, large or small, IT security should always be placed at the forefront of importance. For many businesses, an IT security breach can practically shut a company down for a period of time, sometimes costing millions in […]
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How to avoid virus, phishing, worm and internet scams?
Every computer which is connected to the internet has the possibility of being attacked by virus or spy ware or by hackers. People also face many other internet threats such as phishing, worm and internet scams. A virus attacks your computer when you visit certain malicious websites or when you download any infected files. There […]
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How backdoors viruses infect your system
Today internet is no more a safe mode of online transactions. It is no more safety to provide any of your personal information in online. There are many ways through which people hack your bank account even without reaching near your PC. All this is made possible through backdoor viruses.
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How URL infectors annoy you while you work?
Internet is often misused by people for gathering certain personal information or for erasing certain important contents. Online fraudulent activities have become more in the recent years. In order to protect one from such scenarios it is necessary to take some initiatives. The tool used for these malpractices are known as PC virus.
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Computer Repair when Viruses Attack
When you own a computer device you must be already aware of the fact that viruses are always there ready to attack your system and when this thing happens you will want to have a computer repair done as son as possible. These viruses happen in all sorts of forms and depths and intensities. It […]
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How malware attacks and spreads in your computer
It seems that there is no end of security attacks of computers these days, and worms, pishing attacks and malware attacks are becoming very common. Every system is threatened of malicious attacks because of different viruses and malwares. However, one can avoid any damage to a system by knowing how malware attacks a system and […]
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What is Network spoofing and what are the types of it?
Today, you can find people from all the walks of life using internet regularly. On the other hand the problems and dangers in internet usage have also been increasing. There are many types of internet threats such as ID theft, virus attacks and spoofing. Spoofing is the act of assuming the identity of some other […]
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