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Author :: Benjamin Hargis  |
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| Article Title :: Security Process |
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| What is ARBIL?Asset and Risk Based INFOSEC lifecycle.To implement a comprehensive security plan in I.T. and strategies for risk management.What is CIA?Confidentiality, Integrity, and AvailabilityConfidentiality- making sure your data is available to only those allowed.Integrity- making sure your data has not been altered in any way. Think bank transactions or chemical formulas.Availability- making sure your data is available. Hackers often use denial of services attacks to bring down your servers or networks by overloading them with packets.Hackers use attack trees to determine every possible entrance into your networks. This can be (read full article) |
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Author :: Chris McMullen |
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| Article Title :: Your Mac and Your Kids |
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| For some Mac fans reading this, their Mac is almost like their child. However, for
those of us who have both children and Macs, we have to take responsibility for
educating and protecting our children on the computer. This was never made
clearer to me than one late night a few months back.My daughter was upstairs on her computer and my wife and I were downstairs
watching a movie. First my daughter called down asking for her mother’s birth date.
Then, two minutes after getting the answer, she called down and asked for the year.
I asked my daughter why she needed to know. She replied, “just asking.” Her mother
shouted the answer before I could stop her. I paused t (read full article) |
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Author :: Agnivo Roy |
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| Article Title :: Top Tips To Secure Your Online PC |
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| Most of us use a PC these days, but how many of us are really serious about securing it? Well, not most of us! They just need to get their job done sitting on the PC and hence look no further. But they do find themselves in great trouble when the PC crashes, files are corrupted, login information are stolen or attacked by viruses and malwares. Now, we know that "prevention is better than cure" and "self help is the best help". So according to the lines of these famous proverbs, I will try to highlight some tips through which a newbie user would be able to secure his PC. This article even applies to advanced and experienced users alike. So read on and help yourself to ward off your PC secu (read full article) |
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Author :: Grant Pasay |
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| Article Title :: Internet Basics: Zip Files Are Like Dehydrated Food |
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| Ever have one of those backpacker meals? The type that are super lightweight because all the water has been sucked out of them? When you finally sit down at the end of a long hike you simply add water and heat and presto! Meat loaf! Or something that kind of looks, feels and tastes like it.That's what Zip files are like (only better).All computer files, just like meat loaf, have stuff in them that can be taken out to make them "lighter." In the case of computer files, taking stuff out of them actually makes them smaller in size, not lighter. Smaller means they take up less space on your computer, but even more important, smaller means easier and quicker to send over the Inte (read full article) |
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Author :: Richard Kraneis |
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| Article Title :: Pivot Tables - Excel Magic |
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| Pivot tables are magic. For those of us who know how to use pivot tables, we can’t imagine using Excel without them. If pivot tables and their potential are a mystery to you, this article will help.First, explaining pivot tables without using pictures in this article is a bit like explaining the Internet to cowboys in the 1800’s. It’s hard. But I’ll give you two explanations that will help: one technical and one metaphor.A technical explanation is that pivot tables sort and count. If you have 30 salespeople that work for your company throughout the country, you might want to sort all of your monthly sales by salesperson and then SUM all the sales for each sales (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Gregory Nirshberg |
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| Article Title :: Mp3 Player Basics - Finding the Right Mp3 Player |
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| Mp3 players are everywhere you look now, and it seems like everyone's got one. People on tv, in movies, at school, on the bus, or even walking or running down the street. And the selections are endless. But with so many options it's almost impossible to find the right mp3 player to suit your needs, especially if you don't know what you're needs are!Do you know what kind of mp3 player you want?This is where choosing the best mp3 player starts. You have to know what you'll be using this mp3 player for. Do you want to workout with it at the gym? Use it for running laps? Do you want to be able to put your whole music collection on it? Or maybe you want to use it to hook u (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Benjamin Hargis |
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| Article Title :: Wireless Security Basics |
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| Wireless networks using 802.11 have made it simple to connect multiple devices to your home network.This can also make your data availiable anywhere, even outside your home.To set this up all you need is a broadband connection connected to a wireless router or a WAP Wireless Access Point. Your home computers should have wireless access cards installed or if your using a laptop a PCMCIA wireless card. Intel Centrino is great for wireless, I personally use it. I like the fact that I did not have to purchase additional hardware.When you set up your wireless router or WAP your signal is broadcast. This broadcast usually goes further than your home or business. People like to drive arou (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Lance Winslow |
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| Article Title :: Eye Scan for Cows |
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| Tracking our nations cattle is important to make sure our meat is safe from Mad Cow disease in fact it is essential that we pay attention to these things in the future. People are pretty fearful of such things whether or not the fear is warranted or not. The Cattle and Beef Industry is a very important part of our civilization and the added protein in our diets helps our nation stay ahead of the pack and feed our large brains as we carry the torch and the worlds most advanced and leading civilization.Many ideas for tracking our cattle have been proposed. Some have indicated that bar coding the ear tags has proved to be a great way to use hand held scanners and computer generated li (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Charles West |
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| Article Title :: Mp3 Player for Running (or Any Exercise) |
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| Using an Mp3 Player for exercise, whether we are running or working out in the gym, we like to do it to music. To our favorite music or music we've chosen for what we're doing - possibly vigorous music for aerobics, soothing music for weightlifting, or a good beat for running, snowboarding or skiing, whatever works for you, is the best for you.
One of the easiest ways to carry that music is with a suitable MP3 player that is light, compact and loaded with your choice of music.
Using an Mp3 player for running, as we all know, over many years people have carried radio's, cassette players and CD players while they were running. All of these were either awkward t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Charles West |
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| Article Title :: Choosing the Best MP3 Player for Travel |
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| MP3 players are now capable of many things including making your life easier while traveling.With more of us traveling these days whether it be across State, interstate or around the world, often one home comfort we miss is our music. The choice of music player has been limited over the years to either tape cassette or a CD player, the major problem was the carrying of the units and the box of tapes or CD's.With the invention of the MP3 player, the saving of both weight and space has been greatly improved, and the convenience is just fantastic. But the wide choice of MP3 players available has created a few other challenges, mainly with the huge choice and functionality of MP (read full article) |
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