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We Haven’t Forgotten Windows 7
Last week, we posted an offer to our readers about a security encryption program, SafeBit. There was a forty percent reduction to their usual price for the people who frequent these pages. Our write-up can be found here. Because of very bad timing and the issue with coordinating over many different time zones, we learned [...]
Is a URL Shortener Really What Twitter Needed?
Twitter’s Chirp conference closed out today with the news that the company will soon roll out it’s official URL shortener. CEO
Keep Yourself Safe From Online Disasters
In 2008, there was some published data about how many laptops were lost or stolen each week at U.S. airports. The number was staggering. The 2008 research put the number at over 10,000 laptops per week. With the increasing popularity of netbooks, as well as the wide use of laptops, the numbers now may exceed [...]
Layers of Computer Protection
Computer security people advocate layers of protection. There is no single software program that gives absolute protection. The Internet criminals and hackers simply respond too quickly, and are too sophisticated to be stopped by any one method. One of the layers of protection that people seem to neglect is encryption. There seems to be a [...]
Safeguard Your Security and Privacy
Identity theft has been tagged as being the fastest growing crime in America. Your private information is a commodity that some criminals harvest and resell. It is a whole subculture. The people stealing the personal information may not bother with committing the actual identity theft, but there are buyers for your personal information. One of [...]
One Step for Privacy and Security
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford wrote what he considered to be private email correspondences to a “dear friend”. Unfortunately, the recipient of his email communications had her email account hacked. This unauthorized access meant that Governor Sanford’s private, intimate email correspondences were media fodder for the national and international press. The breach of email security [...]
Huge Savings to Protect Yourself from Identity Theft!
Did you do your taxes on your laptop or your desktop? Were you diligent enough to save a copy of all the work – just in case there were any problems? If you did, there is enough information on your computer to make you a victim of identity theft. There are essentially two things that [...]
