Security

Security is the degree of protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime. Here we’ll cover tutorials on several topics related to security.

Home Security Tips When Going On Vacation

Home Security Tips

After collecting all those vacation leaves, finally you can go on that much awaited and very much needed vacation. With all the hype – you know, arranging tickets, packing up, cooking up a food supply – we often forget to prepare for the security of our soon-to-be-lonely house. I’ve seen it happen again and again. On departure day, everyone’s panicking – …
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How to Secure your Passwords with KeePass

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Most of you have loads of accounts on different websites and remembering passwords of each and every one of them becomes quite a pain. From what the tech guys say, "Never use the same password for every account, use a mixture of numbers, symbols ... blah blah blah". Well, then they themselves should try and remember each and every one of them. Here's when passwords manager …
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Secure Yourself on Social Networks

Secure Facebook

If the first thing you do when you open up your browser is logon to Facebook (or now Google+), then you are just like me and a million others, we love to chat, tweet, poke and comment but are we aware of the risks? Everyone you know (and don't know) is using social media and according to Comscore, India is the eighth largest social networking market in the …
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Is Piracy too Easy?

Software Piracy

Move over malware and terrorism, the world is reeling under Piracy. Piracy in the world is so rampant that most people don't even know that they are using pirated goods. The nearby street hawker or that "CD wala" outside the railway station, people are openly selling pirated movies, games and what-not. Piracy is so widely spread that even the government is too helpless to …
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5 Security Steps to Take After Installing Windows

Windows Automatic Update

Windows is the most popular PC operating system around with a whopping 91% market share (That's also the share Google has in its search Engine market). Unfortunately, more popularity means more and more people searching and exploiting loopholes. In this present scenario, security threats and exploits are on the rise and the default level of protection in Windows is not at …
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