| Cisco Linksys X3000 - The Link to Connectivity |
| Cisco's Linksys X3000 modem router sits itself among the higher-end, slightly more premium range of devices -- and prices just similarly. Being up at the top means you're usually having a lot to offer, which means there's a lot for us to expect from the X3000 as well. |
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| Protect your passwords (Part 3) |
| The most immediate way to use usernames and passwords saved in the KeePass database is to click on one, then click its URL in the lower pane of the user interface to bring up the relevant login page, and finally drag and drop the username and password into the input fields of the website. |
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| Protect your passwords (Part 2) - KeePass |
| More importantly, it's open source. Where your passwords are concerned, this is a good idea because it means that anyone can inspect the source code, compile their own executable and be sure that no keylogger or malware is lurking and skimming off their credentials. |
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| Protect your passwords (Part 1) |
| Analysis of cracked passwords has revealed that some are more popular than others. Believe it or not, ‘123456' is the world's most popular password, followed by 'password' and the username. In July 2011, Hotmail actually banned the password ‘123456'. |
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| Mobile Viruses the risk keeps growing (Part 1) |
| Mobile malware writers celebrated their first huge success in March this year: security experts found more than 50 unsafe apps in the Android market, which had infected about 200,000 devices within a few days. |
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| Firewalls: Protection or Deception? |
| A firewall basically shuts down almost all the ports, in order to prevent unwanted packets from getting into the PC. The data packets can only use the ports that have been explicitly approved. So something like the most well known port (80), which carries all HTTP packets, must be open for the browser, otherwise you won’t be able to surf at all – and this is exactly where the firewall’s biggest problem lies. |
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| Encrypt Your Entire Hard Drive with FileVault |
| If you're seriously concerned about privacy or you work with a lot of confidential files on your Mac, you might want to consider using FileVault. FileVault encrypts your entire hard drive, allowing file access only to users with the right password or access key. |
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| AVG Internet Security 2012 |
| AVG’s antivirus engine uses four detection techniques: signature, polymorphic, heuristic and behavioural. The last two are similar, both looking at software behaviour to determine whether it’s malicious. |
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| Unravelling the mobile security conundrum |
| What do you look for in a mobile phone? As well as the ability to make calls - and no-one really cares about that - the modern smartphone hosts a standard feature set: email, a web browser and multimedia capability. |
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| Three rising cybercrime threats |
| Just when you think you've safeguarded yourself from electronic security risks, along comes a new exploit to keep you up at night John Brandon explains three up and coming threats, and how to beat them |
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| 2012: the year of the mobile threat |
| Smartphones will become more dominant in 2012 and beyond, leaving PC shipments in the dust. That will bring big benefits but also big risks. |
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| DrayTek Vigor 3200n |
| A working internet link is crucial to most businesses, so it is sensible to have access to multiple connections. In case of the main DSL wide area network (WAN) crashing, a prepared link will keep the business online. |
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| What the cyberhackers do with your personal information |
| When the online shopping store Zappos announced to its customers that names, email addresses, invoices and delivery address as well as phone numbers and the last 4 digits of their credit cards could be exposed in a data leakage in January, it emphasized that “credit card information and important payment data weren’t affected or accessed.” |
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| IIS 7.0 : Securing Configuration - Restricting Access to Configuration |
| Previous versions of IIS have used a centralized configuration store known as the metabase. IIS 7.0 abandons the metabase in favor of a new configuration system based on a hierarchy of XML configuration files, in order to provide for simpler deployment and more flexible management of the Web server.
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