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Author :: Gary Gresham  |
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| Article Title :: How Does A Firewall Work? |
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| You may have heard the term firewall before but have you ever wondered how does a firewall work and why do I need one? A computer firewall protects your computer by putting up a barrier to keep anyone from accessing your files when you are surfing the Internet.Once a hacker get access to your files malicious codes spread through your computer retrieving your personal information that the hacker can use to steal your identity or charge items with your credit card numbers. So how does a firewall work?A firewall not only stops this from happening but keeps the malicious file out of your computer so it can't spread to your other files. That's why it's called a firewall because i (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Lance Groom |
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| Article Title :: WARNING! New Ad Scam Alerts |
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| A lot of classified ads promote quick and easy weight-loss products and programs. They cannot deliver what they promise. Another hot area in the classifieds Ads are "business opportunities." Work at home schemes, such as making arts and crafts or stuffing envelopes, have been replaced by offers to "use your home PC to make fast money in your spare time." Other ads encourage customers to invest in communications technologies, such as telephone 900" numbers and telephone services, with promises of low-risk and high returns and The attraction of "900" number pay per call services is that high profit can be made of 25% or more from the fees of $3 to$5 per minute charged to callers by the 900 (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Linsey Knerl |
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| Article Title :: Pay to Play: The Truth About Free Online Music Downloads |
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| Recently a client of mine was very excited to try downloading music after getting high-speed internet. After several searches for unlimited music download services, she came across a site that was ranked #1 among several user review sites. For $14.99 a year, she could get unlimited free downloads to songs, movies, and more! Sound to good to be true?More and more complaints have been issued against these types of music download service companies. My client was just another statistic in the practice of fraudulent music download services. When she signed in to her account for the first time, she was directed to several articles on how to burn CD's and websites such as Yahoo and G (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Lance Winslow |
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| Article Title :: Copyright Infringement on the Internet |
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| How do copyright thieves justify their dirty deeds to steal other author’s work? One accomplished copywriter recently damned them on a major online article Blog for authors. She blasted these thieves who steal other people’s works and then put them on their websites or put their name on the articles, stories or ebooks and use them for their own online content. Indeed, I agree and have had the same thoughts. In a way I suppose these copyright infringement thieves might argue that they are giving out information free online (even though they are often stealing it). These copyright thieves steal other author’s articles and replay it on their websites, without giving them credit. In a w (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: James NK Khoo |
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| Article Title :: Privacy and Google, Yahoo, MSN - The Tradeoff? |
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| While doing some work, I came across an article about privacy issues and how Google and all the other big names like Yahoo, MSN have huge amounts of data to profile their users.In an earlier article I was encouraging people to use Google like a "Swiss army knife" while surfing. Any questions that comes to your mind, just enter some keywords into Google's searchbox, browse around the returning results, go back to whatever you are doing. And don't forget to include word like "sucks" to get a feel of what others may be saying about the topic.It is true to say that the more we use the tools and services provided by online companies like Google, Yahoo or MSN, the more easily we (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Jim Edwards |
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| Article Title :: How to Avoid Getting Ripped-Off Online |
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| Online security is one of the top catch phrases these days, but hardly anybody knows what it means and worse, most home computer users think security only applies to corporations and online businesses.Most people think online security means simply protecting your credit card data from fraud and theft, but it actually goes way beyond that.The potential for mayhem and just plain disruption of your life doesn't just mean credit card fraud - it can mean having your identity stolen, your life disrupted and spending hours cleaning up after an online 'vandalism' attack.You must protect yourself from everyone from the teenage computer hacker to the organized crime syndicate u (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Stan Seecrets |
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| Article Title :: Seecrets on Security: A Gentle Introduction on Cryptography Part 2 |
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| A slightly longer series of articles "Keeping Your Secrets Secret" will examine practical examples in greater detail and provides useful tips and advice. Of course, these will continue with the theme of making crypto and computer security easily understood.One-Way HashAlso known as a one-way function, a message digest, a fingerprint or a checksum, the algorithm creates a fixed-length output that cannot be reversed. One-way hashes provide checksums to validate files, create digital certificates and played a central part in many authentication schemes.Let us consider this example. For ages, the Chinese have a fortune-telling method that relies on "Ba Ji" (eight c (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Donna Johnson Edwards |
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| Article Title :: Security - a Road Filled with Obstacles! |
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| This week I’m an entirely different kind of road warrior. Usually I’m the type that lugs my laptop from city to city telecommuting my way across the nation. This month I’ve had a few weeks in the office – my real office in downtown Richmond, not my virtual office. The complaint I have is the treacherous commute from the West End into the city via I-64 West and I-195 South. The roads are atrocious! One day recently I thought my entire tire would be swallowed by a pothole – let me rephrase that – a pot crater!I’ve been so distracted by trying to avoid the gaping holes in the road I forgot to be a good defensive driver – keeping alert to what other cars around me are d (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: David Heffelfinger |
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| Article Title :: Protecting Yourself Against Spyware |
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| Spyware is a category of malicious software that secretly obtains information about a computer user's and sends it to a third party without the user's consent. For example, a piece of spyware running on an infected computer can obtain the user's bank account number when online banking, user's username and password when online trading or the user's credit card number when shopping online.No computer user is 100% safe from spyware, however it is primarily a concern for users of Microsoft Windows operating systems. The safest bet to avoid being a victim of spyware is to use an alternative operating system like Linux or Mac OS X, however if you are unable or unwilling to leave Windows, (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Mitch Johnson |
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| Article Title :: Spyware Stats To Pay Attention To |
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| In early 2005 Webroot Software released its State of Spyware Report which was conducted by Webroot and Earthlink. In the survey over 4.6 million computer systems were scanned during 2004 and the results have shown how threatening spyware has become.It was suggested that more than 90 percent of all computers with internet connections are infected with spyware. During the first quarter of 2005 approximately 88 percent of systems scanned with Webroot’s SpyAudit software had some sort of unwanted application detected.On corporate computers over 55 percent of PCs had unwanted programs, excluding cookies because they are thought not to be as intrusive or detrimental. The corpo (read full article) |
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