by Richard W | Jan 28, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Security, Windows
The downside of connecting to public networks (Wi-Fi) or wired in public areas like hotel, airports and parks is someone with the right tool could potentially access your computer and steal your information without you knowing about it. That’s because everyone that’s...
by Richard W | Jan 24, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Security, Windows
As you probably already by now, Windows 8 comes with a feature introduced in Microsoft Windows Vista called User Account Control (UAC) that prompts you everytime you wish to make changes or modify your computer’s settings. This feature aims to improve security in...
by Richard W | Jan 14, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Security, Windows
Keeping your Windows 8 machine as secure as possible is important. There are many ways make this happen. You can choose to create a strong password that contains alpha-numeric characters, upper case and special characters. You can also increase your security by...
by Richard W | Jan 11, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Security, Windows
Malwarebytes, a powerful software that detects and removes malware, spyware, trojans, rootkits, rogues dialers and other bad programs from your computer has just been updated to version 1.70. This version now fully support Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10. Along...
by Richard W | Jan 7, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Few days ago we showed you how to create encrypted directories and folders in Ubuntu 12.10 using EncFS. We told you that EncFS uses FUSE library and Linux kernel modules to provide the filesystem without special requiring permissions. To read our previous post on this...
by Richard W | Jan 5, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Don’t remember your password to sign into Ubuntu anymore? Well, you’re in luck because this brief tutorial is going to show you how to use Ubuntu recovery mode to sign with limited system’s service and unlock your account, change your password and your username. It’s...
