Personal technology is starting to sync into modern day enterprise life, employees bring their own laptop in to demonstrate work, they view work email from their personal phone and their life is synced into one device.
For many, this simplifies everything - it makes the user not have to pull out a phone to ring a family member, then switch to read an email from a staff member, then pull out the other phone again to view Facebook.
However, for many using their work phone as their home phone, the situation
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Do you update your software regularly? Or do you wait for a problem to come up before you do anything about it? Manual updates, automatic updates and forced updates are all ways you can update software. Depending on the type of software, it may have more updates than others. However, software updates are an important part of keeping your system secure and stable.
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Since Google's introduction of the Chrome browser, it has often been considered one of the most secure web browsers you can use. Ditching Internet Explorer, Firefox and other browsers were easy for many users who considered themselves diehard fans. Google's mission has always been to evolve with the trends on the web and Chrome is no exception to this ideology.
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Cleaning up your temporary files and browser history can be a pain, especially when you've neglected to do it for so long. While you can do this manually in many cases, using a tool to do it all at once is more efficient. That's where Clean Temporary Places comes to the rescue. You can delete temporary folders, files and more with its simple interface. We'll show you how to get started.
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Not all web sites are secured equally. When it comes to encryption, your big name sites - like banks, credit cards and shopping services - go the extra mile to do everything they can to protect your privacy and sensitive information from hackers. They use HTTPS or HTTP Secure to help do this. This layers a connection over SSL/TLS to give a double layer of security when you visit a ...
Everyone has their browser of choice. Mozilla Firefox has been one of the most used and popular browsers for years. With frequent updates, a penchant for security features and an ever-evolving security prescience, Firefox is one of the best ways to stay secure online. We show you how to optimize Firefox to protect your privacy in less than ten minutes.
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Are you looking for a way to make disposable messages online? We've covered several ways to do this, and we're always looking for new ways to send secure messages online. ReadOnce is another such service, and we'll show you how it works.
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Last week, AV-TEST, an independent IT security institute based in Magdeburg Germany ran malware tests on four top search engines, to see which engines provided more malware in search results.
The end results are on the graph above - while Yandex and Bing Search did have more websites tested, they also had a lot more malware per search. Both Bing and Yandex have responded to claims their search engines are less secure than Google's own, assuring users they are safe.
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Vanilla Cookie Manager is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to cookies for specific web sites you trust. Some users looking for anonymity will turn off cookies for everything they do in a browser, for others, utilizing certain cookies helps give them functionality when surfing the web. Vanilla Cookie Manager lets you certain cookies so you can get the functionality you need without giving away data about yourself online.
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Web of Trust (WOT) is a browser extension that lets you and other users rate web sites for their trustworthiness. WOT is available for Chrome, Firefox and other browsers. The ratings provided by WOT allow you to make a judgment call on a web site or service before truly getting yourself invested in it. We'll show you how to use WOT in Google Chrome.
How to get started with WOT
You can install WOT
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