| The Ultimate PC Security Toolbox (Part 1) |
| MOBILE MALWARE IS getting lots of attention these days, but you can't forget about your PC's security after all, you probably still use it to pay bills, shop online, and store sensitive documents. You should fully protect yourself to lessen the chance of cybercriminals infiltrating your computer and your online accounts, capturing your personal information, invading your privacy, and stealing your money and identity. |
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| The Truth About Android Security (Part 3) |
| In March 2012, Google introduced a “unified privacy policy” that combined more than 60 separate privacy policies for different Google services into one. It is possible for Google to pick up information from your email and search. It will know the websites you visit and the YouTube videos you watch. |
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| The Truth About Android Security (Part 1) |
| Your Android phone or tablet is a mini it makes calls, it lets you send email browse the web, write articles and p movies. Whatever you can do on a desktop it is likely that you will be able to do it on An But there is something else to think about data which you place on your phone is likely value to someone else. |
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| Deal With A Malware Infected Notebook |
| When a user notices a problem, a common first reaction is to run the antispyware and antivirus programs on his machine. That’s a great idea, of course, but it’s important that you’re running the current version of the software and that you update it so that it can recognize all of the latest potential threats to your system. |
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| Surf Safe This Christmas |
| With so much time spent at home or at , online activity tends to increase considerably as more evenings are spent surfing the internet, indulging in some online retail therapy, playing games, or keeping up with friends via social media. |
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| Who’s Watching You? (Part 4) |
| A more immediate solution is to ensure that you and anyone else who uses your computer is aware that the data they put online is not private. Also use tools such as Collusion to monitor who is watching you. |
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| Who’s Watching You? (Part 3) |
| It response to the ever-increasing issues surrounding privacy, EU Law has put in place the e-Privacy Directive. This states that no user should be tracked without their consent. You may have noticed the pop-up boxes that now appear at the top of websites announcing that they use cookies; they will either require you to click to accept this or, in some cases, state that by continuing to use the site you are giving your consent. |
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| Who’s Watching You? (Part 2) |
| It’s not just the secret third-parties that watch what we do, sometimes it’s the sites we trust. In late 2011 blogger Nik Cubrilovic showed how Facebook was using persistent cookies that could track web use even after a user had logged out from the social network. |
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| Who’s Watching You? (Part 1) |
| The Internet us undoubtedly one of the great inventions of the modern age. Never have so many people had access to so much free information. Never have so many people had access to so much free information, while project such as Wikipedia have shown what can be achieved when the power of the masses is harnessed to achieve a common goal. |
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| People, Always The Weakest Link |
| Even the most sophisticated software, the strictest policies, and a religious adherence to the best of best practices cannot prevent someone from making a mistake that will compromise the company’s security. |
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| BlackBerry Bold : Securing Your Data |
| With any GSM phone, like your BlackBerry, if your phone was every lost or stolen, your SIM card could be removed and used to activate another phone. |
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| BlackBerry Bold : What If Your BlackBerry Was Lost or Stolen? |
| On our BlackBerry smartphones, many of us store friends' and colleagues' names, addresses, phone numbers, confidential email, and notes. Some of our devices may even contain Social Security numbers, passwords, and other important information in your Contact notes or your MemoPad. |
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| Generation I (For Insecure)? |
| While Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) continues to soak up headlines and hyperbole in equal measure, I'm willing to gamble that you probably haven't yet heard about BYOB. |
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| How Hackable Are You? |
| If a hacker wanted to ruin your life, how easy would it be? Sadly, a lot easier than you may realize. You may not think you’re sharing too much data any one sites just a snippet here and there – but to a hacker, you’re building an easily harvested online profile. Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to safeguard your security. |
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| Mac Application Security (Part 2) - Signed apps, Unsigned is untrusted |
| THE MOST COMMON problem that you may encounter with Gatekeeper is that of the unsigned download and unsigned app within. If you have changed your Gatekeeper security setting in the Security pane to allow all apps to be run, then you should still see the normal warnings that have resulted from opening quarantined items since OS X 10.5 |
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| Mac Application Security (Part 1) |
| SINCE OS X 10.5 Leopard, when you run an installer for an app that you’ve downloaded, and the first time that you run that installed app, the Finder alerts you to the fact that it was downloaded from the internet, asking you to confirm your actions. This is because the installer and the app that it installs have a hidden flag set in their extended attributes indicating that they’re quarantined. |
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| To Beach Security Boundaries |
| Security can no longer be just a box anymore with the IT environment now being an extremely fast changing environment. It has to be mix-match of solutions that is able to address the new challenges that cloud computing and virtualisation have brought out," says Joe Wang, CEO of WatchGuard. |
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| The Digital Economy Act: Back From The Grave |
| The IFPI and its local UK branch, the BPI, argue that they need to be able to punish and deter illicit downloading ('online copyright theft'). They say that users must be dissuaded from sharing or acquiring files without payment. They claim that investment won't be forthcoming unless action is taken to reduce infringement. |
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| Secure Your Smartphone (Part 3) |
| Innocent looking apps can harbor malicious spyware, and leading security experts have criticized Google’s policy of not checking apps before they’re available to be downloaded by unwitting consumers. |
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| Secure Your Smartphone (Part 2) |
| There’s enough space on the average smartphone to contain all the apps you could possibly want and plenty more besides, but you must exercise caution when you’re buying or downloading new ones. |
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| Secure Your Smartphone (Part 1) |
| With the ability to download and run apps, smartphones are now the main focus for a growing number of malicious hackers, and yet most devices are completely unprotected from such threats. For online criminals, the situation resembles that of PCs in the mid-1990s, except they now how much money there is to be made from online crime. |
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| Protecting Me |
| Four to five years ago, to be protected on the internet meant protecting a particular device when it was connected the internet, whether PC, Mac or mobile device. Today however, thanks to the proliferation of social media and the internet, there are so much more of us online than ever before. More of us are storing our information in the cloud, as well as on social networks. |
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| Web Security : Seeking Design Flaws - Testing Random Numbers, Abusing Repeatability |
| When a single attacker is able to disable your entire web application, we call that a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. Standard quality efforts ensure performance and reliability; your security testing should consider these factors as well. By identifying when low-cost input triggers high-load actions, we can reveal areas where your web application might be put under extreme stress and potential down time. |
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| Security Software : Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2013 |
| Bitdefender's 2013 security product is available in several incarnations, from Total Security, down through Internet Security, to the subject of this review: Antivirus Plus. You can choose the number of PCs you want to protect: one, three, five or 10. |
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| Do You Really Need Security? |
| Malware, Viruses, attacks, phone numbers being stolen, lives put at risk, solar flares wiping out the communications grids… all of these scenarios have been blamed on Android recently, as anti-virus companies pitch Google’s mobile operating system as the next worst thing that will ruin your life. |
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| Is It Time To Quarantine Infected Pcs? |
| Malware could block your access to the internet - but in some cases by those on the right side of the security fence, who are deploying tactics such as blocked ports, letters in the mail and PCs quarantined from the net to combat the most damaging threats. |
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| Cookie D'oh, I Scream |
| Most UK websites will fall foul of an EU directive on the use of cookies when it comes into force on 26 May, according to a report by KPMG - despite having a year’s notice. |
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| More Malware Hits Macs By The Back Door |
| Apple users’ relative indifference to the threat of viruses has again been called into question by a malware outbreak. But a lack of anecdotal reports from ordinary users casts doubt on estimates of its scale. |
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