Prevention

Think Your Laptop Is Secure? Only If Whole Disk Encryption is used!

Either you or the company you work for are taking huge risks by pretending your laptop is secure if whole disk encryption is not being used to protect sensitive data, trade secrets, or financial information.

Submitted by cybernoggin on Tue, 09/05/2006 - 8:52pm. categories [ | ] read more | cybernoggin's blog | login or register to post comments

Google and the Stop Badware Coalition Team Up to Warn of Malicious Websites

Watch out, there's adware about

Published Monday 7th August 2006 10:35 GMT

Google has teamed up with an anti-malware organisation to offer warnings when search results might otherwise lead surfers to sites hosting malicious code.

Submitted by cybernoggin on Mon, 08/07/2006 - 10:16pm. categories [ | ] read more | cybernoggin's blog | 2 comments

Inviting Disaster - Don't Use the Administrator Account for Every Day Tasks

Please Create a Basic User Account for Every Day Computer Use

There's an old rule in computer security called 'Least Privilege'.  This means that a user or program is granted minimum possible privileges to permit an action. In doing so, the operating system as a whole is not exposed to unwarranted or excessive actions that may cause damage or promote further negative actions.

Submitted by cybernoggin on Mon, 05/08/2006 - 10:25pm. categories [ | ] read more | cybernoggin's blog | login or register to post comments

CyberNoggin.com's 'How To' Article on Securing Your Home PC

CyberNoggin.com has published a 'How To' article on securing your home PC.

Here's a snippet, just follow the link at the bottom for the whole article.

Submitted by cybernoggin on Sun, 04/16/2006 - 10:56pm. categories [ | ] read more | cybernoggin's blog | login or register to post comments
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