Sandboxing your Browser for Ultimate Protection


Sandboxed

It’s no question that many of our work that’s being accomplished today is composed in our Internet browsers. There’s also no doubt that so much of our time spent on the Internet is through a browser of some sort. This is necessarily so because the browser can be thought of as the gateway between the [...]



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Learn Who Tracks your Online Activity with Ghostery


Ghostery Addon

Whether you believe it or not, you’re an important person on the Internet.. Yups. Advertising networks are all competing over how best to track your web activity. These activity can include how you interact with a particular website, what you are most likely going to click on, how long each of your visit usually lasts, [...]



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File Encryption without Passwords


File Encryption

Did I ever tell you that I get all sorts of weird requests from some of my clients? So, it’s no surprise when someone requested that I help him devise of a plan to protect all of his important documents and files on an external hard drive he has at home so that no computer [...]



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Remain Anonymous While Surfing the Web!


Anonymous

There was always a need for some users to remain anonymous on the Internet. They don’t want their identity to be known. I don’t really care what those “needs” are but you get the point. One of the biggest determining factors on tracking who did what on the big wide Internet world is by something [...]



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How To Securely Wipe your Hard Drive


Hard Drive Nuke

Ever wanted to securely wipe your hard drive prior to selling or giving it away for someone else to use? I’m praying you don’t just hand over your hard drive as is and hope that the next user wouldn’t scourge it for your personal data.  Deleting and even a simple reformat does not guarantee that [...]



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Padding your Passwords!


Padding Passwords

In a recent Security Now! podcast from Steve Gibson of GRC Research and Leo Leoporte of the TWiT network, they talked about a very interesting topic concerning password security. Basically, two words can sum up the entire talk: size matters! What Steve found was that a a long and randomly generated password consisting of all [...]



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Enabling Gmail Multi-Factor Authentication


Gmail Multifactor

As we move forward in the digital age, security is more prominent than ever. Users now have a lot of utilities and services that they can utilize to store all sorts of data and information in the cloud. That’s a good thing to be sure. However, having that data stolen or accessed by unauthorized personnel [...]



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