Virus, malware, and security in general
Jim Hillier recently wrote an article explaining firewalls. In it, he posed the question, Is Windows Firewall good enough? Jim concluded that while a business may need an expensive enterprise-level firewall, the included free firewall is fine for the average Windows PC user. It is […]
Overview Using email aliases protects your privacy and your security. When using an email alias, a hacker cannot learn your real email address or any other details about you from a data breach. In addition, email aliases can reduce SPAM. In How To Minimize The
Firewalls have long been considered an integral component of any security setup. Firewalls come in a number of different types but in this article, we’re going to concentrate solely on free firewalls for home PC users. Firstly, a layman’s explanation of how a firewall works.
Yes, folks, you read that correctly – the new TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) security mechanism that Microsoft insisted everyone must have to enhance security includes a serious security flaw. This recently discovered vulnerability in TPM 2.0 could allow hackers to execute malicious code, which
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LastPass is a popular password manager that has suffered more than its fair share of data breaches. Information has now come to light regarding the latest LastPass data breach which was reported here by our own John Durso in December: LastPass Hacker Gets Vault Data
I’ve maintained for a long time that the more computer savvy a user is the more security savvy that user generally is. In other words, the best security is what’s between the user’s ears. I’ve also stated on many occasions that the vast majority of
This is Part 2 of a 2-Part article. Please be sure to read Part 1 first: At the end of Part 1, I posed the questions: How do you create a strong password? How do you measure password strength? How strong is strong enough? Please
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Email Discipline Email has become an evil necessity in today’s electronic world. Email is used by just about everyone “as of 2021 4.26 billion people around the world use email” (Source: 99 Firms Blog) with a mobile device or computer. Understanding that “Spam comprises 85%
This is Part 1 of a 2-Part article. In Part 1, I’ll explain why most passwords are not very strong and the methodology hackers use to crack passwords. In Part 2, I’ll explain how you can create passwords that are much harder to crack, how
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After the last security breach at LastPass, and spending a greater part of a day changing all my major passwords, I decided to move on to KeePass. Unlike other password managers, KeePass saves your passwords in an encrypted file on your computer. Export Passwords From
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Did you know you can surf the web and test software with perfect safety from within Windows Sandbox? Sandboxing is an isolation technique whereby all data related to the user’s online and offline activity is encapsulated within a special container (or Sandbox), completely separate from
Ok, so technically, someone tried to hack into my home network. Although they did not get in, I thought it would be informative to go over what happened. In this article, I will explain the different methods used to get into my network, what the
This is Part 3 of a 3-part review. Make sure to check out all 3 Parts for the full review. Part 3 – Hasleo Test Results & Verdict Test Methodology – Backups My main interest was testing the image and image restore capabilities of Hasleo
