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by Harry Constantine

Internet is one of the major needs of this contemporary world. Almost all the work can be done on the internet and it is preferred by people because it is time and cost efficient. It is one of the greatest blessings of technology.

However, there are a lot of online web sites, which are not safe to your computer, your personal info could be hijacked through them. Therefore, in order to save your personal info you can use a proxy. So do you have the right knowledge of how to use a proxy server?

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by Dan Miller

The typical process of backing up computer data is almost like a form of insurance. It may seem too mundane or unnecessary to bother with, but when the disaster strikes, it may be too late. Many years ago, computer data backup software utilities and solutions included forms of external physical media such as CD’s, zip drives, DVD’s, external hard drives, tape drives, or automated software running on the computer itself.

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by Rex Simpleton

There are many movies and books that show the internet as a bad place where criminals can get profit by using innocent people. Although this may seem just fiction, nowadays these things happen more than we think. Identity theft can be done over the internet and it proves to have great disadvantages for all people.

The internet world is not free from criminals. Criminals are everywhere and they try to make profit from anything, including personal information. Most hackers have access to a lot of personal data and information which they can later use to obtain different benefits.

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by Chris Channing

SQL injection is becoming a problem for web developers- especially those new to the field who aren’t up to speed on how insecure PHP can really be. But as the experts like to say, PHP isn’t the problem- it’s the knowledge of the programmer that counts when it comes to preventing SQL injection attacks.

It’s rather frightening to think that a statement such as “b’ OR ‘b’='b’” can render one’s security useless. But this is indeed true, and is what we call an SQL injection. SQL injections have been the most popular way to “hack” a website in recent years. As long as the input can be validated before it is passed along to the SQL query, we can ensure that nothing bad will go wrong.

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by Sandra Wilson

Email phishing is a way for scammers to attempt to collect vital financial and personal information from the people to whom they are sent. This is potentially a very expensive lesson if one falls for the emails. While many are very easy to recognize, others are becoming quite sophisticated and can take even the most astute person

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by Zachary Schuessler

Cisco is the leader in routing and switching devices, but they aren’t without their problems. Routers need to be secured with several different configurations so as to best ensure a network is not vulnerable to outside attack. How to configure the Cisco router becomes the task, and with what commands is the problem.

There are several commands in which are used to secure a router in terms of passwords. Cisco announced that one in particular, “Enable password,” has become outdated and vulnerable to security risk. This is because the command uses no encryption to store passwords, and this can lead to hackers finding passwords out and retrieving them with ease.

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