Security

Is password your Password? You need to read this now

Passwords today are big deal. With online activity increasing day by day and with increased logins and usernames, there is a great need to safeguard your online credentials. Your username need not be confidential but what about the password? Your password need to be super secure and confidential so that nasty hackers out there keep

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How to Sign out Remotely from Gmail and All Google Accounts

This article heading seems awkward. Right? How to sign out remotely from Gmail? Why this is needed at all? Your questions are fair and justified. 200%. Just consider a situation that, last night when you were partying on your friend’s home, you just signed in to your personal Gmail account from his laptop to check

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Heartbleed: It’s time to change your passwords

If you think you aren’t affected by the super hyped Heartbleed bug, you really need to keep reading. And you definitely should change your passwords, immediately. Even Facebook and Twitter use OpenSSL, and they are the among the most used websites on the internet! So basically, OpenSSL is a part of your life as long

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Tumbler Announces Two Factor Authentication

Following the security trends of the internet giants like Google, Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and others, tumblr, one of the most popular personal blogging platform, recently announces two factor authentication to add an extra layer of security to its account. Now, tumblr users can turn on the service any time to have that added layer of security.

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Privacy Matters in Twitter and Facebook Accounts and How You Can Control It

One of the most popular social networking sites, Twitter, has announced recently that they are going to make money through this site in the form of targeted ads. In their blog post, Twitter adds that number of ads will not increase, instead users will be server with better ads. This of course means that Twitter

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Does Windows 8 Pose A Threat To Parental Control Softwares?

Windows 8 is coming out with some new features, one of them is being set up as the newest arrival in the tech world to give parental control software a run for their money. Microsoft is bringing out the big guns for parents with greater control over what their kids do on the latest platform. The family safety feature can to an extent remove the need for additional PC monitoring software.

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What Is Facebook’s ‘Instant Personalization’ And How To Block It?

Facebook’s latest instant personalization feature is yet another flag raiser that the service uses to share your data with 3rd party services. Let’s take a quicklook at it and learn how we can disable Facebook Instant Personalization.

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How To Setup Facebook Login Alerts

Facebook login alerts can be used to send live email notifications when someone else may be using your Facebook account without your knwledge or permission. The email alerts can be sent to your mobile phone or to your contact email address.

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GFI Vipre: A New Approach To Networking And Security

GFI Vipre is a complete new way for securing your PC from new age malwares that has evolved over time. The antivirus will help you keep a watch on the security status of all the PCs over the network you wish to monitor. Let us take a quick look at the network antivirus solution that

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Enable Or Disable Safe Search Filters On Google

Enable Or Disable Safe Search Filters On Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo

Every search engine has some safe search filters which can be used to restrict porn content on search result pages. If your children are too small and they spend a lot of time on the internet, it will be a good idea to turn on safe search filters on the search engine your kids use

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Block Websites Using OpenDNS for Better Parental Control

No matter who you are, web-content moderation is a necessity to be safe while browsing. And here is how we can enable a proven web-content filtering for our network (office or home) with a simple DNS hack with OpenDNS.

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Control and Monitor Your Network’s Activity With GFI Webmonitor 2009

GFI Webmonitor is a nice utility that can help you monitor your network and define the parameters like download, blocked sites/users etc to have a better control over your network.

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Stop Sulking About Your Stolen Laptop, You Could Have Prevented It

Prey is a free tool that will help you track down your laptop in case its stolen. The app sits hidden within your system (until you wish to activate it from the web interface) and collects valuable information about the whereabouts of the laptop and sends them to the Prey server (whenever the tool gets Internet access). The tool can also be configured to send you emails directly to your inbox.

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How to Encrypt and Decrypt Files in Windows With Password Protection

Encryption is the process of converting data into a format that cannot be read by others. You can use some cool tools to encrypt files in Windows so that others cannot access your sensitive data.

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Avoid Email Spam Using temporary Disposable Email Addresses

Email spam is the Most Common and Disturbing Element of Internet. Both Geeks and the average user get a lot of Email Spam.You can avoid Spam email messages by Using temporary Disposable Email addresses.

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