It is virtually impossible to operate a home computer that is connected to the internet without being aware of the dirty and damaging programs that can infect your computer that we call viruses. The term “virus” has been associated with a lot of different malicious programs that are downloaded to a computer without permission of the owner to do bad things.
If you used Surveymonkey to create a poll and asked people what social networks like Facebook and Twitter are for, you would get a lot of answers. Probably the most popular answers would be for fun, to share pictures and to keep up with friends and family
Google says they do not plan any massive changes to how the search engine works because of the coming of personalization. No doubt, this technology needs some time to be refined and for Google to understand what it can do. Google is so omnipresent on the internet that few of us will give up using it just because it seems that not only are you looking at Google, they are looking at you back. But just knowing that Google is getting to that point of profiling you based on your daily online thoughts can get a little spooky. I guess it is something we will have to get used to.
How Your Web Browsing Habits Impact Your Computer’s Security No matter if you’re a home user, running a small business, or adminning for a 10,000-head corporation, web browsing will be the weak spot in your computer system’s defense. Because the number one path of infection for malware continues to be the web browser. These [...]
An Introduction to Network Monitoring There’s a difference between an intrusion detection system monitor and a network monitor. While an intrusion detection system is responsible for protecting the system from outside threats, a network monitor just watches for internal failure conditions, such as overloaded servers, crashed servers, faulty network connections, and other problems. [...]
Concepts of Network Security The first thing to understand about network security is that it’s all about preventing unauthorized users from accessing a network. This is different from information security, which protects against things like automated malware such as viruses. The second thing to understand is that securing your network has to take into [...]
Security in technology platforms continues to be a matter of grave concern. The birth of new gadgets ensures that many devices, as they get adapted into society, will be just that many more gizmos to play with for purposes both good and bad. It’s partly instructive and partly amusing to take a look at how [...]
The smartphone set has so far been smugly confident that they’re staying ahead of malware. But desktop and laptop users know what’s coming: there is no such thing as a completely secure computing system, and smartphones are no exception. Already, a few smartphone viruses have been spotted in the wild; they use SMS and Bluetooth [...]
The word “hacker” is perhaps the most badly-abused term in history. From its origins in the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) programming groups of the 1960s, where it originally meant “good programmer”, it has been seized by the media and turned into a word meaning “cybercriminal”. Then the distinction had to be made between the [...]
We all love gadgets, and we hope you love them to. But when we look at the news lately, perhaps we’re seeing that some people love them a little too well? Here’s a round-up of recent stories in the news from all over the world of crimes involving cell phones. Would you people out there [...]
