Facebook – Enabling Two Factor Authentication
Earlier I have described how to enable two factor authentication for your Twitter and Apple accounts, today I will tackle Facebook. We are hearing about more and more online accounts being hacked almost daily. Setting up a strong password for each account you have is...
Enabling Two Factor Authentication for Apple’s iDevices
A few days ago I described how to enable two factor authentication on Twitter. Today I will show you how to do the same for your Apple products. You have probably heard in the news lately that numerous celebrities that had their Apple accounts hacked. This...
What you should know about the latest password heist
A group of Russian hackers has stolen the largest amount of Internet credentials in history, Milwaukee-based Hold Security announced this week. The stolen information includes 1.2 billion usernames and password combinations, as well as 500 million email addresses....
How to Safely Use Wi-FI at the Airport
Most airports now make it easy to access the Internet with free public Wi-Fi networks for travelers inside the terminal. While it seems like a great idea to find an airport hotspot and connect, how do you know if you're connecting to a safe network? Any hacker can set...
How Hackers Can Use Your Employees to Gain Your Company’s Confidential Data
We sometimes think of hackers as geeky types spinning threads of arcane code to gain access to an organization's innermost secrets, and to some extent, that's true. What's surprising is that an almost equally effective tactic hackers use for obtaining such information...
How You Can Secure Files on a USB Memory Stick
USB memory sticks are great accessories for carrying around files to meetings or different offices. They are often securely stored on a keychain or lanyard, so you'd never think you'd lose one up until you do. Unless your USB memory stick is encrypted, anyone who gets...
With Windows XP Support Ending, Your Company Could Face Serious Malware Threats. Are you Ready?
Companies still running Windows XP on their corporate workstations should know the significance of April 8, 2014. That is because April 8 is the last day that Microsoft will provide any kind of support for Windows XP. Small business that haven't made the jump to a...
Don’t leave tracks of where you visited….
Sometimes you don’t want to leave a trace of your web browsing activity on your computer. Whether it’s shopping for a gift on a shared PC or checking an account at an Internet café, you don’t want to leave any evidence of your browsing or search history for others to...
Is your password weaker than you thought?
Microsoft wants to help you prevent weak passwords by showing you how your weak password can easily be predicted. Straight out of Microsoft's Research labs comes Telepathwords - a tool that is designed to predict the next character of your passwords. "To guess...