Many other filtering can be done to protect computers and even in a home scenario with only a few computers, firewall software would be a good investment but as stated, it comes standard or as add-on options with anti virus software you may already have. Bigger corporations install a firewall appliance which is simply a [...]
Read More..>>Firewalls are software that prevents intrusion of certain information from entering your computer. A personal firewall protects you from suspicious access from outside such as hacking cases and filtering of addresses that prevents information from sites you block from getting in and bugging you. The name was given for as with a physical firewall, which [...]
Read More..>>Ever wonder how your user name and passwords are entered automatically as you go to a site, cookies too, and what about those pop up messages that keep bugging you about something you just searched for, them too. All of these pesky and annoying stuff just because of them, in a never ending battle for [...]
Read More..>>The problem is in their nasty ability to record everything you do and then send the information they gather to other people. If you are using windows, set the security settings to medium and you’d be amazed to see just how much of these cookies run as you jump from site to site. Another problem [...]
Read More..>>The security risks of cookies are quite hard to fathom but for most of us who simply know them as the type you dunk in milk, loaded with chocolate chips, they really pose a big threat. They have been around for a long time and have allowed internet companies to gather personal information from us [...]
Read More..>>Chain e-mail is a form of mail that tells you to send them out to a number of users for say a miracle to happen. The only miracle would be a virus or something nasty that came with them as you spread the infection to more users. All important documents, spreadsheets should be backed-up in [...]
Read More..>>Email is believed to be one of the best propagation means of malware on a computer network, with the advent of firewalls and anti-virus systems that filter them they have indeed gotten a lot safer but simple steps should always be observed when dealing with email in or out of the workplace. First, never open [...]
Read More..>>Search engines are again being targeted due to their increased popularity on the internet (who doesn’t use them???). Weaknesses in the security of their web sites have them being probed again and again for vulnerabilities which if found are immediately exploited. Similar to the past Google Attacks which had several hundred seemingly valid and authorized [...]
Read More..>>These incidents have raised the question, were we ready for the social internet at all? Well it seems that this is more a question of take action now and do damage control later for the many problems we are experiencing now on the internet with bearing to the security of information could have been thought [...]
Read More..>>The huge problems associated with security and privacy on the internet has been an issue ever since it was created. The move of the internet from an information repository, to an advertising platform and to today’s so-called social network has been plagued by many security issues that were there a few years back but were [...]
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