Archive for September, 2008
Spammers and their seemingly endless messages are annoying and can even seem threatening, but you can use reverse email lookups to search an email address to find out more about the person who owns it. Though most spam is fairly harmless, it can be difficult to distinguish between those and scams without help of online resources like reverse email lookups. Spammers prey on the uninformed, so the best way to protect yourself is by searching an email address to decide on its legitimacy, sometimes even before you read the message.
Basic Ways to Protect Your Computer From Hackers
Your computer have important information that don't want other person to see it? Do you feel there always have someone looking at the data in your computer?
Top Five (5) Ways to Avoid Scams, Identity Theft and Internet Fraud
We must enter the internet the same way soldiers go into battle, cautious, and if attacked, respond quickly. The internet has become a battle field filled with scammers, put on your armor before you log in.
Tips to Keep Adware and Spyware Away
If you use the Internet regularly, the chances are that you will definitely get infected with adware and spyware. Here are some tips to keep your computer safe from adware and spyware.
How to Easily Delete Your Internet Explorer History - Protect Your Reputation With Privacy Software
Most of us have a vague awareness that our computer tracks our progress on the internet. Now this can be helpful if you want to return to a site, but it can also lead to acute embarrassment - or worse - if a partner or family member stumbles upon a dubious website that you have visited. All it takes is for them to start typing an address into the address bar and the browser will drop down a list of earlier visited sites starting with the same letter.
Keep Safe From a MSN Messenger Virus
Viruses spreading through messengers and IM clients are very popular as it has the potential to create havoc over a million computers within hours of release mainly spreading through the contact list and chat list of friends usually found in all the messengers. These viruses usually disguise themselves as harmless links to sites, pictures and come with a compelling harmless title like "Geez, Is this really your picture?" or "Why did you do this to me?
Protecting Yourself From Cyber Crime
Today, the Internet has become an integral part of our lives. It's a daily routine for us to log onto the internet for banking, shopping, social & business networking, job application, researching, music downloads and on other various important information retrieval, we all depend on internet. With its worldwide popularity, the risk of Internet crime has also risen considerably.
Online Acts of War Tracked by New Breed of Hackers
The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, a new breed of hacker-investigators monitoring how traffic is routed through countries where web sites are blocked and why it is happening are reportedly conducting digital espionage --- turning their attention to a new weapon of international warfare: cyber attacks. "Hacktivists," led by Ronald J. Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, referred to as the "NSA of operations," set out to help residents in countries that censor online content, but have ended up tracking wars. Citizen Lab researchers created a software tool called Psiphon that helps users bypass Internet filters.
IT Security, A Step by Step Guide
This article offers constructive, yet easy to understand advice, on business IT security. A simple guide to what your current IT security should be providing, and the risks you run if you operate without any IT security.
How Do I Secure My Private Information When Surfing the Internet?
Privacy is today a must while surfing the internet due to the increase in the number of internet transactions. You should therefore be aware of different methods to protect you privacy.