Home video surveillance system can cost thousands of Dollars. A cheaper but still valid alternative is to utilize equipment that is already available in the household. One of the possibilities includes webcams that can be used as video surveillance systems with the right software or service.
Ugolog is one of these services that can turn a [...]

Tags: home video surveillance system, monitor, Security, surveillance, surveillance system, ugolog, video surveillance, webcam
Categories: Online Services, Security

I just spend most of the morning installing Windows XP on a computer system. While the installation itself takes some time the configuration afterwards is surely the most time consuming part of the process. Windows XP comes with many services enabled that are usually not needed by most users and that can allow hackers to [...]

Tags: configure services, portable software, Security, security-software, services, windows services, windows software, windows-2000, windows-xp
Categories: Security, Windows

Google recently launched behavioral targeted ads for AdSense. This means AdSense displays adverts not only on the context of the webpage, but on the context of your browsing history. The aim is to provide more relevant and efficient adverts, but tracking cookies being used across hundreds of thousands of websites raises obvious privacy issues, as [...]

Tags: Adsense, advertising, behavioral ads, cookies, doubleclick, firefox, Google, google adsense, internet-explorer, privacy, protect privacy, safety, Security, tracking cookies
Categories: Google, Security, firefox, ie

Inexperienced users and even some experienced users have troubles identifying fake emails from legit ones. It is sometimes hard to tell if the email that just arrived in your mail inbox came from a legit company like eBay, Amazon or Citibank or if it is just another phishing attempt. There are some basic guidelines that [...]

Tags: aol, Email, email certificates, email security, gmail, hotmail, iconix, microsoft outlook, outlook, phishing, Security, truemark, yahoo
Categories: Email, Security

Just a few minutes ago the patches for this month’s patch day have been uploaded to Windows Update and Microsoft Update. Users are encouraged to update their Microsoft operating system as soon as possible to close the recently discovered security vulnerabilities. Among the affected operating systems are practically all Microsoft operating systems since and including [...]

Tags: microsoft patch day, microsoft security, microsoft security bulletin, patch day, remote code execution, Security, security bulletin, spoofing, windows security, windows vulnerabilities
Categories: Security, Windows

Cloud computing is a buzz word. It has been made popular with services like Google Docs which allow users to store their documents on a server on the Internet. While it surely is comfortable to have the documents stored on servers with the ability to work with them and share them with trusted individuals words [...]

Tags: cloud computing, data security, docs, Google, google docs, Online Services, privacy, Security, web services
Categories: The Web

If you are serious about learning Linux then one aspect you will want to familiarize yourself with is log files. This concept will help you to understand why when you go to a mailing list with a problem and, when someone asks you the contents of a particular log file, you are able to offer [...]

Tags: /var/log, administration, Linux, log files, messages, Security, tail
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic