Archive for Security Tech
Recovering Hard Drive Data: Flashback Data
Hard drive failures are really terrible and they happen all too often.
It’s one thing to drop a document or two but when an entire hard drive fails it can be somewhat catastrophic.
Whether you’ve accidentally deleted files or your entire drive has crashed (also known as ‘fallen over’) there are companies who can help you [...]
Protect your good name
I’ve posted about life lock on here before but I figure that identity theft is always good to write about.
According to ConsumerAffairs.com, Identity theft tops the Federal Trade Commission’s list of complaints with 674,354 complaints during 2006 (and I’m sure things haven’t gotten a lot better since then). That was about 36 percent of [...]
Ad-Aware 2008 beta released
Ad-Aware is one of the better free Spyware, Adware and Malware detection and removal tools out there.
New features include:
Rootkit removal Reduced use of your computer memory (yay!) Speedier Updates Vista and 64 bit system support
Want to test the beta? Check it out here
Via DownloadSquad
Get help updating applications (free)
It’s not only your operating system, Internet connection, and hardware drivers that leave your computer system open to hardware vulnerabilities, your applications can do it too. (yes, you’re just getting it from all sides).
Secunia makes a PSI (Personal Software Inspector) that quite happily sits on your computer and monitors your software to see [...]
Security? software isn’t the problem, it’s the users
Studies are showing that cyber criminals aren’t too worried about software vulnerabilities any more, they’re targeting users instead.
It would seem that users are kind of… slow in the area of computer security actually (yes, I know, stand back aghast) especially executives.
Instead of phishing users are being ‘Whaled’. Whalers are targeting the higher power, richer executives [...]
