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Nowadays, the computer has a very important place in everybody’s life, as a personal gadget used for a lot of different things. Everything is digital and it is stored on a computer’s hard-disk or on a cloud system, offering you easier access to your favorite data. Computers have become the place where you hold pictures, documents, favorite music and everything [...]
Skype, the popular VoIP & messaging client can now be used as an intelligent and simple home monitoring tool. Thanks to SKYCAM, a nice IndieGoGo project launched recently, people can buy an IP-based monitoring webcam which solely relies on Skype to function and which can be easily installed in any important location. Installation and usage of SKYCAM unit is as [...]
Not many people would have heard about SHODAN (Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network), a search engine created by computer programmer John Matherly in 2009. It is known to be the scariest search engine on the internet and its name, Shodan, comes from a character from the 1990’ game System Shock. While Google can be seen as a white hat assistant, [...]
Many people make the mistake of thinking that digital signature software and electronic signature software are the same, but there are some differences between them. While the second contains only an electronic image attached to the data, the digital signature software has a more complex technology, which makes it more suitable for safety. Digital signatures are the result of the [...]
Kaspersky, the well-known Russian security company, has finally made one of its top-notch products free to use on Android systems. Known as Kaspersky Mobile Security Lite, the software acts as a skinned version of the full-security suite, which includes a couple of basic, but important features. As always, those who wish to extend its functionality and gain a couple of [...]
Not long ago I believed that those being paranoid around their webcams are simply crazy. There was no reason in the world to convince me that laptop webcams, or even plain units attached could have been silently hacked and used as spying toys, for the amusement or malevolence of others. In my simple mind, such process should have required brute [...]
Is there anyone left to hack? In the last couple of months all the giant firms and services have reportedly been hacked. Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote all of them have stated data breaches in their databases. Misha Glenny in his TED talk smacked the very same argument, by saying: There are two types of companies in the world, those [...]
Choosing the least memory intensive antivirus solution is not an easy task, especially when there are a lot of options in the market, all promising protection at the highest levels with no compromises made towards computer speed. From my own experience, and from those of others, I’ve learned that only some products care about computer resources when implementing defensive solutions. Although some [...]
Safety is probably everyone’s top concern. Be it for them or for the people around them, it is a natural instinct that everyone has and thanks to technology and the day by day advancements that it gives us, we are now one step closer to making our roads safe to drive on. Of course, we already have self parking cars [...]
Although the bottom right section of our computer tells us that the year is 2012, many have forgotten some basic security measurements and threat passwords just like they did 10 years ago. With hackers getting smarter and computers becoming more powerful each day, the circle of those who can crack a Windows or online password has extended to such reach, [...]
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