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If your router supports wireless Internet and if WiFi is enabled, then it is theoretically possible that others connect to your network to use your Internet connection. While you can make sure that it is harder for them, for instance by enabling the highest security mode or selecting a secure passphrase that needs to be entered to establish the connection, it can still happen that someone else may find a way to connect to your wireless network.
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AhnLab announced its Top 7 Security Concerns for 2014. Because AhnLab is immersed in the cyber trenches and the cloud, its team is very experienced monitoring trends and keeping tabs on what is being developed by cybercriminals worldwide.
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Intel this week said it would ditch the venerable McAfee brand for its security products and services, and offer free mobile security software to customers running Android, iOS and other operating systems on their smartphones and tablets.
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The government will shortly launch ‘Netra’, the defence ministry’s internet spy system that will be capable of detecting words like ‘attack’, ‘bomb’, ‘blast’ or ‘kill’ in a matter of seconds from reams of tweets, status updates, emails, instant messaging transcripts, internet calls, blogs and forums.
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Upscale department store Neiman Marcus confirmed that their database of customer information had been hacked last month, reported independent security researcher Brian Krebs on Friday.
The written word has a nasty habit of sticking around, surfacing in hacked email accounts, accidental forwards and the on untrustworthy lips of your peers. That’s why former AOL executive Jon Brod created Confide, an iOS texting app that erases sensitive messages as soon as they’re read.
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A California escrow firm that was forced out of business last year after a $1.5 million cyberheist is now suing its former bank to recoup the lost funds.
A state-appointed receiver for the now defunct Huntington Beach, Calif. based Efficient Services Escrow has filed suit against First Foundation Bank, alleging that the bank’s security procedures were not up to snuff, and that it failed to act in good faith when it processed three fraudulent international wire transfers totaling $1,558,439 between December 2012 and February 2013.
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Microsoft is releasing best practices for enterprise workers who are considering using their personal technology device for work and play. This business trend, known as BYOD, continues to grow as more devices enter the marketplace giving consumers a variety of choice in terms of functionality and application for work and home.
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You’re sat at your PC. You’re not using the internet, and neither is anyone in your house who’s connected to the same router as you. And yet the lights on the router keep flashing. Clearly something is sending or receiving data, even though it’s not you.
Ever wanted to find out what’s doing all that communicating?
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Each user account of a Windows operating system has specific permissions assigned to it. This determines which files can be accessed or modified among other things. Administrators can modify those permissions, to give additional rights to a user or remove rights instead. A simple example is a configuration file that you do not want users to modify in any way or form. You could remove the write permission so that users cannot modify it anymore.
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