Security

Security is an important topic when it comes to technology. There are many different areas of security, so this category is divided into various sub-categories to help navigate through the posts on security.

In College? Be Aware of These Cyber Security Issues

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Student Using Laptop

Cyber security is an issue for every American who owns, or uses, a computer or mobile device. While many of us are aware that this is the case, most of us go about our daily lives giving very little thought to the security threats we face in the cyber world. This is even truer for the on-the-go college student.

College students often follow a hectic schedule, rarely paying attention to the very real threat emanating from their handheld devices and laptop computers. Here are the top four cyber security issues facing college students today.

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5 Cool Spy Cameras Concealed in Everyday Objects

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Spying

It’s pretty scary, but everyday objects can conceal very sophisticated hidden spy cameras. These cameras can help you find out exactly what is going on in the world around you. They are cleverly disguised, so no one will ever suspect there is a camera in the objects around them. These cameras can be used at home or in the office, perfect for getting the video evidence that you need.

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Three Cloud Computing Myths

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Cloud Computing

Like any new technology or technologic solution, cloud computing has been equally hyped and reviled, to the point where a novice to the field, seeking to find accurate information on the cloud’s benefits and disadvantages, will have a very hard time making sense of the information.

Obviously, the cloud is not something that can be simplified into one-line assertions. It is a complex system, prepared to respond to specific IT infrastructure and general business needs.

Like all systems, it, too, is fallible and will continue to evolve. Issues which have been addressed thus far, like security, reliance and cost, will continue to be explored and developed upon, to the point where they become less problematic than they are at the moment.

However, let us explore the top five myths about the cloud, and see which ones are true, and which ones less so.

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Security Tips For Traveling With Your Gadgets

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The holidays are here and it is the perfect time to take advantage of the long weekend and travel to meet up with families and friends or just go on an out of the country trip to relax. Since we live in a gadget filled world, almost everyone who travels brings with them their multitude of devices like their smart phones, net books, laptops, and more.

Aside from the fact that these devices lets you stay connected anywhere you are, these gadgets are actually a good travel companion as devices now are so versatile that you can do a lot with it like watch videos, surf the net, send emails, and many more.

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Password Storage Solutions – Why You Need One

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Key

Using one of the password storage solutions that are available is really important for your phone, and your personal computer. Keeping your password safe is not an issue you want to deal with.

While browsing the Internet you may come into contact with more issues then you would like.

There are many times that you will complete a transaction online without thinking about it.

Your credit card information is freely given to a website that you aren’t sure is one hundred percent legitimate.

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A Server is a Computer That You Can Create at Home

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Old Desktop Computer

If you happen to have an old computer at home, then you can create a home storage server since a server is a computer.

Most people tend to already have a network installed at home since many use broadband Internet with a router, so it may make sense to make use of an old computer to create a centrally located storage server.

While the old desktop may not become a high performance file server, it can easily be converted to storing your file to help you backup your data.

On top of that, you can also share the data stored on your home file storage server with any computer connected to the network.

Create one or more backup file servers is easy to do, and I’ll touch on how you can go about doing it in this post.

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5 Computer Security Risks to Avoid for Good Performance

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Taking time to apply some computer safety rules can help you get the best of your computer in the time when it does not produce the actual result that it supposed to produce.

The extreme rate at which computers are getting infected with virus and some other malware application has made it becomes a norm for computer users to be searching for ways to protect their systems.

In this article are five important steps you can take to make sure that your computer is always performing at the topmost rate it should be.

These five steps are in form of advice to anyone who wants to get the best results from his/her computer system every time.

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Is Mobile Broadband Taking Over Wireless Broadband?

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Mobile Internet

The rate at which mobile broadband has grown over the years is stunning, and there are even people speculating that it is only a matter of time before it becomes the dominant form of internet connection.

Wireless broadband used to be all the rage, but things are changing fast, and it seems a lot more people are starting to embrace the mobile broadband internet.

Personally, I believe it is only a matter of time before mobile broadband becomes the most used and the most reliable way to access the internet, and I also think it is a lot better than wireless broadband.

In this article I will be giving you my opinion on wireless broadband vs. mobile broadband.

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