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David Harley, published Don’t Forget to Write in February 2014 in the Virus Bulletin magazine. Because the copyright is held by Virus Bulletin Ltd, the article is made available on his site for personal use free of charge by permission of Virus Bulletin. You can download it from here: http://geekpeninsula.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/dharley-feb2014.pdf   via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from here

Source: http://ift.tt/1jBxESB Once your children start using the Internet independently, how do you keep them safe while allowing them to make the most of and enjoy social media websites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? Sorin Mustaca, Avira’s IT security expert, shares some practical strategies. It’s a constant battle and one many parents are very familiar […]

Something great is coming! A new book from the series “Improve your security”: Improve Your Product’s Security It is going to be addressed to software developers and will show you how to : create the requirements for a secure product design your product to be secure from the beginning write more secure code test your […]

Hello dear reader, I have added new content in the book: – The long required introduction “Who should read this book?” which explains what the book is all about and why you should read it. – Chapter “Online Security”: Enable two-factor authentication for Tumbler – Chapter “Online safety for parents”: – Parental supervision for parents […]

More and more social media websites and not only are enabling two-factor authentication in order to secure their users better. Following all other major portals, now also Tumblr allows users to enable it.     Here is how to activate it in easy steps: Visit your account settings. Click the “Two-factor authentication” switch. Enter your phone number. […]

You have an email account, a Facebook account, a LinkedIn or XING account.  And you have passwords for them. You think you’re secure. But you are not. These days, cybercriminals aren’t only after our computers’ resources. They are interested in our identity, financial information and in our social media accounts. That’s why it’s important to […]

There has been a lot written about whether or not it is ok for parents to control what their children are doing on the Internet. This starts with supervising which websites they are visiting and spending time on. Parental control applied to browsing means several things: Filter the websites which they are allowed to visit […]

Social media websites like Facebook, Instagram and alike are so heavily used because they make it easy for people to share information with others. Many don’t know that sometimes, what they share is shared with the entire user base of the social network, not only with their friends. Even if now the default settings have […]

Hello dear reader, I finally manage to find some time to write the introduction chapter called “Who should read this book”. I also added a new chapter in the “Device Security”, related to Microsoft’s announcement for the end of support of Windows XP. Please help me to spread the word about the book by liking […]

Well, at the first glance, this Myth might actually be true… But… It is never so simple to speak only about cost and effort. Let’s take software development as main example (I am good at that). If you are a company that does something unrelated to software development, such an approach might make more sense. […]