Almost everything now is done through the Internet – from bank transactions to keeping in touch with family and friends – as long as you have an account with a site, you are required to come up with a password. To keep your password safe and secure, be sure to keep in mind these following tips:
Avoid using dictionary-accepted words, names of persons, places or things and foreign-language words.
Avoid incorporating any personal information in your password (i.e. employee number or birthday).
Make sure your password is made up of at least six characters.
It is recommended to combine uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters in your password.
Create a unique password for each account that you have.
Do not let a soul know what your password is.
More tips at SecurityFocus.
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As long as there is the Internet, there will also be scammers. Every one of us were surely ripped off at least once or encountered or heard of one of the many scams out there. For the still clueless out there, here are the top Internet and e-mail scams that are circulating the Web.
Nigerian scam or 419 – you will receive an e-mail from supposedly one of your contacts who claims that he or she is stuck in Nigeria and is asking for a large amount of money to get out.
Fees for a loan or credit card – a loan or credit card company will ask for a fee upon sign-up.
Lottery scams – you will receive an e-mail telling you that you have won a large amount of money in a lottery and will ask for a fee before you can get your money.
More information on scams at About.com
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Twitter has become one of the most successful startups that have managed to make it big in the ever improving social net. They have however become a larger target for malware makers or hackers, who capitalize on the sheer number of people that can be hit in one go that takes almost no time to accomplish. The micro-blogging site is founded on the very much secure framework of Ruby that is already robust on it’s own. Read the rest of this entry »
Are people actually clicking less on risky online sites or is it the search engines themselves taking them out of the list?
The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the overall chance of clicking through to a risky site declined by 12.0%. Still, McAfee estimates that consumers click through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month.
“It’s good to see that clicking on search engine results has gotten modestly safer,” said Chris Dixon, director of strategy, McAfee SiteAdvisor. “But when almost one of 12 sponsored links still clicks through to a risky site, there remains significant room for continued improvement.”
Whatever the reason for the declining percentage, whether it be the user being more vigilant or the search engines taking care of what they list, we hope it will even get smaller next year.
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Topwalls has movie pictures, celebrity photographs, and a crowd of scantily-clad women and beefcake men. This wallpaper site is sure to appeal to your libido or your inner movie fan!
For sexiness issue, the Topwalls.com site ranks second of five wallpaper sites this month. Be careful, though: your boss might not like you having a sizzling desktop.
TSS2000 is the one site in this list that requires you to sign up as a free member. At first, I was hesitant to join yet another service on the Web, but TSS is absolutely worth it! It takes about 5 minutes to sign up and retrieve your password, and then the glorious wallpaper begins!
The artwork on this site is stunning. From classic photos of Sinatra and the Godfather, to haunting imagery of nightscapes, to sexy women and fast cars, to magnificent original artwork… this site has it all. TSS2000.nl is easily the number 1 web site this month for free computer wallpaper.
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No one can deny the ubiquity of the Internet in this day and age. Even grade schoolers can now access the Internet in the comfort of their own homes. But parents have a perennial worry that their child might be viewing inappropriate sites or might be talking to people they should not be talking to online. For starters, parents should make sure that all computers in the house are located in a common area, like the living room. On the technical side, there are resources out there that can help restrict sites visited by your child. One useful site is ProtectKids.com, a site under the nonprofit Enough is Enough.
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Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, said that the U.S. government’s cybersecurity people are trying to come up with an early warning system to detect computer attacks on sensitive infrastructure. Some experts, though, think that this idea is not quite feasible. Present technologies are only able to detect a hack after the fact. Chertoff remains persistent, though not clear on the details as they are considered classified information. Chertoff’s department also aims to reduce Internet access to government agencies that would hopefully lessen the chances of getting hacked. The project would require experts from the private sector said Chertoff, but he did not yet say exactly how many they will be needing.
More information at CNN.com.
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