In this day and age with Credit Card fraud, identity fraud, and everything else security should be a top priority for every one. The first thing you can do is secure your home PC from malicious people and programs. Use these 8 tips and you will be more protected against security threats.
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8 Tips For Securing Your Home Computer
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009An Introduction to Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Sunday, June 21st, 2009Network intrusion detection systems identify security threats by detecting malicious activity such as scans, denial of service attacks and unauthorised access through the examination of network traffic. They are installed at strategic points on the network to monitor traffic to and from all hosts on the network. Unlike a packet filter or firewall, where a packet filtering decision is made on weather or not to allow traffic to continue, network intrusion detection systems do not interfere with network traffic in any way. In simple terms these systems could be described as a packet sniffer that also analyses the captured packets.
How to Make Your Emails Secure
Friday, May 8th, 2009We talk about securing our data on our system, we protect our data on CD and DVD, we make our data safe on portable storage media but we never thought about securing our emails which we usually use to send our important data to people we know. As the number of computer users is growing really fast, the people have to face many security threats in the face of viruses, spy wares and the most dangerous threat are the hackers who are always looking to hack in to other PCs and steal their private and confidential information…
