Category: Security

Most of the time, hackers and malicious sites are able to attack a person through browsers because you are using an outdated browser plugin, for example, an outdated Adobe Flash plugin. But how would you know if you have an outdated browser plugin installed. The Secbrowsing Chrome extension for the Google Chrome web browser allows you to check if your Chrome browser plugins are up-to-date.

Everyday more and more phishing and other malicious web sites are reported. The only way to protect yourself from these is to block them in real-time. You can use the free G-Data CloudSecurity plugin for web browsers to block such dangerous and suspicious web sites. It effectively blocks access to known malware distribution and phishing websites – in realtime.

LockNote is a portable program that lets you store all your confidential data inside its notepad like interface using the AES-256 cipher. You can store your serial numbers, passwords, and other types of text notes in an encrypted form. It is truly portable in the sense that all your data is encrypted and stored in the program itself – without needing any extra files. It is just a single file and can be placed on a portable media like a USB flash drive.

Even after a file is deleted from the hard disk, Windows only removes its entry from the file table but the actual data remains there. This data can be recovered easily by using a specialized tool like Recuva. If you want to completely shred you documents and files so they become completely unrecoverable, then you can use Moo0 File Shredder. Moo0 FileShredder lets you easily erase your private, secret files perfectly off your HDD.

Everyone has some private information stored in files what they do not want to anybody to access. A good way to keep the private information private is to encrypt it. AES Crypt is a good encryption tool for Windows which lets you encrypt and decrypt any file on the fly. AES Crypt is open-source freeware and uses the industry standard AES cipher (also called Rijndael).

When you delete files on your Windows based computer, the file is removed from the file table but the file data stays there. Anyone with proper tools to recover data can recover deleted files and has access to your private or secret deleted documents. But do not worry, you can use Codyssey Freeraser to securely erase any file in such a way that it becomes unrecoverable.

We have previously covered an article on how to wipe out your hard disks using the Dariks Boot and Nuke (DBAN) CD. But DBAN CD wipes all the data from your hard disk. If you want to wipe just the previously deleted files and retain existing files, then you can use the Moo0 Anti-Recovery. Moo0 Anti-Recovery lets you easily erase any recoverable data from the empty space of your hard drive, leaving the existing files untouched.

Microsoft Windows Vista and 7 come with Windows Defender installed. You can also install it in Windows XP. Windows Defender is free software from Microsoft that helps protect your computer against many security threats. If you have a computer that does not have Internet access or automatic update is not working for you, then you can manually update the Windows Defender spyware definitions.

Facebook is the most popular social networking site. Facebook is making it more and more secure everyday. Now Facebook has added secure browsing through HTTPS connection whenever possible. This way the connection between your computer and the Facebook servers would become encrypted and nobody will be able to eavesdrop on the data being transferred between you and Facebook.