security

If you run your own Linux server here are some tips on server hardening, liberally stolen from the CFS security GUI script for cPanel/WHM.

There is something you should realize. Working from home while using a wireless local area network (WLAN) may lead to theft of sensitive information and hacker or virus infiltr...

Perhaps you think that online security is a bit of an urban myth that has been blown out of all proportion by the media and companies selling security software. Unfortunately, ...

Hundreds of thousands of laptops are lost or stolen each year. What if it happened to you? Think about all the valuable information stored in your laptop and the chaos that wou...

Here are some tips to protect your content from being ripped off. Other sites can easily outrank you in SERPs for your own content. This can happen if they have higher PageRank...

With expansion of internet, many websites promote themselves by sending you spam junk mails, advertisings and even spy wares. These things not only publicize your personal info...

It might happen to you too. You get a call one fine day from a credit collection agency, demanding you to pay off all your dues amounting to huge bucks. Wait a minute; I don?t ...

I work from my home, the most peaceful workplace I can think of so far. As a Homemaker and part time Freelance Writer, I submit articles and subscribe to various respectable w...

Summary Internet fraud should be addressed as two specific issues: fraud that uses Internet technology as an integral part of the fraud; fraud that is already taking place b...

Any person interested in publishing any data on the Internet requires Web Hosting. Web hosting has been around for several years now and has evolved from simple HTML pages host...

There's a new route into your company's secure data. It's the Blackberry PDA. A hacking program has been developed which exploits the relationship between the Blackberry itself...

According to a Deloitte Survey, more than 50% of companies surveyed admitted to having a data loss in from June 2005 - June 2006, with roughly 33% of those incidents directly r...

You know you need a web host, but you don?t know where to start. So you do a web search to research potential solutions and get a bit overwhelmed with all the jargon: UNIX, ded...

A hacker is a person who creates and modifies computer software and computer hardware, including computer programming, administration, and security-related items. The term usua...

Last week, Atlanta-based Choicepoint ( http://www.choicepoint.com ), a giant consumer information clearinghouse, revealed that some of the massive amounts of personal data the ...

For individuals, VOIP security is primarily a matter of preventing others from eavesdropping on their conversations. Some VOIP service providers offer voice security through en...

The hacking incident that happend on March 8, 2004 in my previous websites: The Way To Know Sueboy ( geocities.com/slaplana ) and Pasugo-Online ( pasugo-online.com ) by Rovick ...

A Certified Ethical Hacker is one who knows how thieves and hackers work. The best way to catch a thief is to act like a thief, and to be able to get inside their minds, to pre...

"Leaving your Web applications insecure makes no more sense than building a brick wall but using a gate made from chain link fencing." ? James Gaskin Whenever the Presiden...

Although the term 'computer security' is used a lot, the content of a computer is actually vulnerable to only a few risks unless the computer is connected to others on a networ...

The ability to detect spyware is becoming more and more important in today's world. Ditto for the use of spyware removal tools. Did you know that recently a Trojan Horse pr...

It's been two months now since the time I've started chatting on I.R.C. I've learned a lot about being a channel manager, channer operations, eggdrop hosting, shell accounts an...

With the exception of those who are competing in reality TV shows, who wants to be watched? Who wants to be seen in their most vulnerable and private moments? Who wants to be...

When you signed up for that ultra-fast DSL or Cable connection there was probably one very important piece of information that your ISP failed to mention. By accessing the Inte...

Are you a computer geek? Hey, I don't mean this as an insult. In this day and age it certainly pays to be computer savvy. Heck, we all have to use computers in some aspect of o...

Recently one of my friends asked me to check out if his computer was infected by virus. He suspected because occasionally the computer was shut down automatically when connecte...

More and more webmasters nowadays do not value the importance of a complete website backup (files and databases). They have left this to chance and good luck which poses a grea...

In the past I?ve never really paid much attention to security issues when it comes to user names and passwords. Frankly I figured it was all a lot of overblown hype. This led t...

Let?s say that you have a software project that?s under severe time pressure. Let?s say that this deadline is so tight that you already know it will involve many late nights o...

This simple reminder is dedicated to all Webmasters (and Webslaves like me). Don't sleep tonight without reading this. Find out why below... Have you seen people cried out ...