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Author :: Shawn Davis  |
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| Article Title :: Protect Yourself with Spy Bug Detectors |
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| If you are involved in surveillance on other people, chances are that there are other people involved in surveillance on you. In order to detect when others may be listening in on you, it is a good idea to keep one or two different types of spy bug detectors. Because there are plenty of different bugs out there, and because they make use of a variety of different technologies, it is important to have at least two different types of spy bug detectors in order to sweep for multiple types of listening devices.
Because the most popular listening devices are RF (radio frequency) bugs, it is important to make use of RF spy bug detectors. Choose a sensitive model with good bandwidth an (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: amabaie |
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| Article Title :: CASE STUDY: How Website Monitoring Saved an Online Auto Parts Retailer |
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| PROBLEM: Customers complaining about site outages and slow site response times. Hosting company claiming that the problems had been resolved. Customers remaining dissatisfied.
METHODOLOGY: External website monitoring on a page-by-page basis at one-minute intervals pinpointed the problems.
SOLUTIONS: Realigning shared hosting, fixing database indexing, DNS server upgrade, altering the web host's BGP configuration and regular website monitoring.
THE STORY:
Once seen as an alternative marketing channel, online shopping has carved its own niche in the marketplace. The online shopping sector has grown rapidly, outstrip (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Howard Goff |
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| Article Title :: How to Check Your Credit Report for Evidence of Identity Theft |
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| Imagine finding the home of your dreams. It's the perfect location, the perfect style, even the perfect price. Excitedly, you start the loan application process. You know this part of the process will be easy since you've always paid your bills on time and only have one credit card which you pay off every month in full. To your surprise, however, your application is refused because multiple credit cards have been taken out in your name, maxed out, and never paid. Your credit is ruined, and your dream home will never be a reality thanks to an identity thief.
This scenario may be hypothetical, but similar situations happen to people all over the country daily. Many people are vict (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: kaisilver |
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| Article Title :: Paypal Fraud, Paypal Email Scams and Avoiding Paypal Phishing |
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| To access a Paypal account you need to have the username and password of the account. The username of a Paypal account is the main email address (primary email address) used to register the account. The owner of the account would also set up a password to be used along with the username to access the account. The security system is quite secure as long as the username and password of the Paypal account are known only to the actual owner of the account. If these details are available to anyone else it would mean that the security of that Paypal account has been compromised. Anyone acquiring the username and password of any Paypal account can access and perform all functions that the actual ow (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Alexandra Gamanenko |
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| Article Title :: Phishing, Fraudulent and Malicious Websites |
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| Whether we like it or not, we are all living in the Information Age. We have nothing left but adapt to rapidly developing information technology, no matter who we are and what we do for living.
The Internet, in particular, means for us boundless opportunities in life and business – but also lots of dangers unheard of just a decade ago. We should be aware of these dangers if we want to use the huge potential of the Internet and to avoid the hazards it brings us.
Warning: There are Websites You'd Better Not Visit
Phishing websites
Thanks to authors of numerous articles on this topic, "classic" phishing technique is relativ (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Alexandra Gamanenko |
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| Article Title :: Phishing and Pharming: Dangerous Scams |
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| As soon as almost all computer users already got used to -- or at least heard about -- the word "phishing", another somewhat confusing word appeared. Pharming. Does it differ from phishing -- if yes, how?
Two Pharmings
Actually, two completely different fields use the term "pharming" now. We can say there exist two separate "pharmings".
If genetics or businessmen from pharmaceutical industry are talking about pharming (spelled like that) it might have nothing to do with computers. This word has long been familiar to genetic engineers. For them, it's a merger of "farming" and "pharmaceutical" and means the genetic engineering technique -- insertin (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Rick Cooper |
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| Article Title :: Protect Your Little Black Book |
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| The movie Little Black Book features a young woman, Stacy, who is frustrated when her boyfriend refuses to share information about his past relationships. When his PDA, a Palm Tungsten C, falls into her hands, she is faced with a conundrum. Does she give it back, or does she explore it? If she gave it back, we wouldn’t have a movie, now would we? Stacy then proceeds to identify his ex-girlfriends and contact them. Let the games begin.Could this really happen? Of course it could. Most PDA’s contain a plethora of information about a person and their activities, their digital footprints. People store contact information, appointments, meetings and midnight rendezvous’. They stor (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: David Congreave |
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| Article Title :: Can I Guess Your Password? |
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| We all know that it’s dangerous to use the same password for more than one program. If you sign up for a program run by someone of low moral fibre, what is to stop them running through various programs with your username and password to see what they can access?
But of course remembering all the different passwords can be a headache. And writing them down somewhere isn’t a great deal safer than using the same password again and again.
You can buy software that stores the passwords for you, but do you really want to pay money for another piece of software that performs a solitary function?
Try this simple, two-step, technique that lets you generate an infinite n (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Dylan Campbell |
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| Article Title :: Don't Miss Information Because of Misinformation |
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It has been said that with the wealth of information, freely available, the Internet has the ability to make you smarter, faster, than any other medium on the planet.
Of course with an equal amount of mis-information, it also has the ability to make you dumber, faster, than any other medium on the planet.
So how do you decide which sources of information to trust and which sources to avoid?
It has long been a source of debate, whether or not, any information can be 100% reliable. There is, it is said, no such thing as absolute truth (is that an absolute truth?).
Really though, there is no point in driving yourself mad with such trivial philos (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Sako Karalekian |
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| Article Title :: Behavior to Stay Safer Online |
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| 1. Importance of a Virus Scanner: A Antivirus program can help to prevent you from becoming infected with a Virus or Trojan. It is extremely important to make sure this program is updated at least once a week, and all drives are scanned. Viruses usually are used to destroy your Data or Hardware. Where as Trojans are used to gain remote access into your system. Always scan any new files you receive as well, even if they are off a friend, you don't know where those files originated from. ALWAYS use a little common sense when on the Internet as well. Don't accept files from an entrusted source. Don't go to web sites you have received spam for, they can be infected with viruses or aski (read full article) |
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