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The 5 Best Ways to Properly Secure Your Computer

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Computer security is a constantly evolving and highly multifaceted game of keeping one step ahead of all possible threats through contingency planning. If you can manage to do this effectively, then you will never have to worry too much about protecting your physical computer or, more importantly, the information that it contains. Follow the following tips and you'll be far ahead of most people when it comes to effective computer and data protection. 1. Don't Leave Your Machine in the Hands of Strangers This is probably the single most basic and essential piece of computer security advice, and one that many people completely forget to take advantage of. No matter how well secured through more complex mechanisms your laptop, PC or any other device is, if you freely let somebody you can't completely trust use it unsupervised, you've compromised the machine and invited all sorts of potential intrusions into the computer itself. Untrustworthy but computer savvy pe...

Relevance of Web Security as Web Based Attacks Proliferate

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BY: Nitin Vaghela The issue of Web Security is a prominent one in the task list of IT department. Web has emerged as the main source for criminals to leverage it for attacks on networks. Criminals push malware, spam spyware, carry out phishing, pharming, intrusions, and more through malicious web sites, web based applications and emails in order to steal data and gain unauthorized access. Also, today the threats are increasingly complex, designed to appear low in profile and mutate easily to avoid detection and are the handiwork of extremely organized professional cyber criminal groups. This makes web security an important element in any IT security strategy in organizations. According to Web Security analysts, web based attacks are the biggest of all risks that affect the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of information assets on the networks of a business. How Web based Attackers Compromise Security The modus operandi of criminals involves altering the backend dat...