Google Chrome currently does not offer options to password protect the browser, or at least user data, from local access. Someone with access to the PC can fire up the browser to access bookmarks, websites, the browsing history or cookies. It is all there in the open. Simple Startup Password attempts to change this by [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

If you are living with children under one roof you know that it is important to limit their access to the computer. Best options are to create user accounts for each family member, monitor activities and limit access to specific programs and settings. On the other hand, many families use only one user account on [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Security sometimes equates to sanity. You have to keep sensitive information from prying eyes for various reasons. You might have a folder that needs to be given access only to certain people and it lives within a public folder. Or you have a folder on your desktop machine that you want to ensure no one [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Security, Software, Tutorials Basic

It might be necessary to password protect programs – and other files – if other people have access to a computer system. This can be true for families who share one computer system but also in dorms and even for businesses. The password protection should ensure that a certain program is not executed on a [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A recent comment here at Ghacks asked for help in finding a software program or solution to password protect CDs or DVDs. The following post explains how to password protect data on CDs and DVDs. Please note that this method is only working with data CDs or DVDs and not audio or video CDs or [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The Windows operating system does not ship with a program that can be used to password protect files easily. There are on the other hand several reasons why someone would want to password protect files. This can be to protect children by preventing their access to certain applications or files, protecting files in case they [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Sharing a computer with children can be a great way for them to get started early on. It does however raise a few concerns that have to be addressed. One area of concern are games. Everyone can play games on a computer if they are installed on it. Sure, there are the parental controls in [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I apologize if this topic drifts a bit away from the usual ones you find here at ghacks but I thought it would be extremely useful for everyone who has a server or webspace that supports htaccess and htpasswd. Htaccess files can do much more than just secure a directory on your server or website but I want to concentrate on this topic because it is something that I have been using on some of my websites for a very long time to increase security.

Categories: Security, The Web