Computer Protection – Hardware Firewalls The primary function of a firewall is to limit what goes in and out of computers on a network. With the ever-increasing danger from the internet, a firewall is an essential component of any network today. A hardware firewall is a physical device that is connected upstream to a server […]
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Are Online Payment Services as Safe as Credit Cards? Paying for stuff online isn’t scary new experimental technology anymore. In the last 12 months alone, nearly a hundred million separate people paid for things browsing on the computer or their cell phone. They used mostly their credit cards or online payment services like PayPal or
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What Password Security Do You Have If You Just Pick Your Phone Number? Back in the 90s when the whole Internet thing had just started, there were two kinds of ways that people would react when their e-mail sign up form asked for a password. They would take it far too seriously and make up
Ensure Wireless Network Security is in place? It seems that everything is going wireless these days. Though this is very convenient, it does bring up some issues about safety and security of personal information. Hackers like to break into wireless networks in order to get information that may allow an identity to be stolen or
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A New Trojan Horse Attacks the Military and the Banks NetWitness is probably a name you haven’t heard of, but the company is a major in corporate computer security – antivirus for the big boys, if you will. And in February, NetWitness called the alarm on a major Trojan horse attack on government and corporate