Data is now everywhere and we store pretty much everything as data.  Contacts, diaries, music, photographs, videos, conversations, business records, everything is data.  In fact more and more people are shredding the paper copies of everything they have and going digital with scanned copies of important documents being much easier to store.  Unfortunately this also [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Microsoft have launched a new website aimed at helping people identify how secure their web browser really is.  www.YourBrowserMatters.org will tell visitors in a simple score from 0 to 4 just how secure they are when they go online. In a blog post today, the company said that 24.4% of all web browsers are outdated [...]

Categories: Microsoft

BitLocker, first introduced with Windows Vista, is a full drive encryption technology that works with hardware in compatible computers known as a Trusted Platform Module (TPM chip).  It offers enterprise-level data encryption and caused some controversy when it first appeared with some governmental agencies calling on Microsoft to leave them a back door in, something [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

Researchers at Black Hat have said that they’ve found Windows 7′s Enterprise security to be better than that of Apple’s OS X operating system. The problems for OS X seem to stem from user privileges.  While Windows 7 isn’t perfect, OS X seems to have more “soft spots” according to a report by Network World.  [...]

Categories: Apple, Microsoft

It was only a matter of time until a security developer would come up with an ingenious idea to increase their market share. The first company to do just that is Agnitum with an offer for residents of the United States or Canada. Here is how the deal works. You can trade-in your current antivirus [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

It is essential to protect your PC with reliable antivirus software. The drawback to this is that it often slows the PC down. In some cases it does so significantly. Some antivirus software can be very thorough and scan “potential invaders” that are part of your normal applications. Many of these programs do not need [...]

Categories: Security, Tutorials Basic

Microsoft Fix-It solutions are great, really. They are basically small programs that fix certain issues that users may experience under Windows. They were mostly run and forget kind of tools in the beginning, but have quickly expanded into different types. The Malware Prevention Fix-It belongs to that category. While it still comes with an option [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Malware on the web has exploded in recent years. Malicious organizations and users have moved from the Windows operating system as their main target to the web, and that with great success. When you look at the operating system in past years, you will notice that Microsoft has improved the security of it considerably, thanks [...]

Categories: Browsing, Security

Smartphones are wonderful things that have helped people do so much more, be so much more productive and keep in touch with friends and family.  Nobody will doubt the benefits of the smartphone for these tasks.  What would happen though if you were to be in an accident, or incapacitated in some way.  Could your [...]

Categories: Mobiles, Security