It starts with a text message from a friend or family member. Have you set up a new account on Facebook? Or someone who is already a friend on your social networks asks why you are looking to “friend” them or connect with them again? You quickly check your account, everything seems normal, but you change your password anyway. ...
A lot of very specific location information is being collected about you, me, and every other smartphone user. The image at left shows everywhere I have been in the last four years, courtesy of Google location services. If you would like to find out what is being collected about you, and how to make it stop, the next two articles will help. ...
The insider threat, the computer or network attack originating from inside our own network, is the hardest to defend. In our last post we took a look at the disgruntled employee and the embezzler. Today we will review insider-based sabotage and corporate espionage.
Sabotage – Sometimes a disgruntled employee will take out their frustrations by orchestrating a little sabotage. Perhaps they ...
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Here is another intriguing guest post by Melisa Marzett.
This question was raised long time ago in old science-fiction films. Though those depictions were rather primitive, people started asking questions, for example, what else are they capable of, and how long will it take to develop such intelligence. In these films, the only thing these machines want is to ...
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Recently the ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) released the results of a survey they took in December 2018. There is a shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals; not enough people are entering the field, and those with ten or more years of experience may be leaving the field due to stress, lack of a career path, and ineffective mentoring.
The ...
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Last week we took a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast. This article concludes the series.
Torrents are just the files that contain the information related to other files and folders that are distributed across the computers. For example, if you want to download a movie using torrent, then ...
Continue Reading →This week we are taking a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast.
So far, we’ve learned that the VPNs route your requested data through their servers to keep you anonymous.
But, as it happens with many things in the tech world, there’s not one but many different methods to ...
This week we are taking a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast.
Although you can do many things with a VPN (from buying cheap flight tickets to improving ping during online gaming), below are some of the primary uses.
This week we are taking a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast.
Unless you’re living under a rock for the past 10 years or so, you’ll know that VPN stands for the “virtual private network.”
It is a service that lets you access any website over the web, from anywhere, securely by ...
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