Alternatively referred to as Private Browsing, InPrivate Browsing, and Private Window and informally as porn mode, Incognito is a mode that prevents some type of information from being stored locally. Pages you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around in your browser’s history, cookie store, or… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1oCsoW5 via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
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Many think that what is not visible to an attacker is not going to be attacked. While this might be true for physical security, it doesn’t apply to cyber security. Security experts name this approach “security to obscurity” because it… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1xXIzju via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
No matter which source for statistics you take, all agree that the most used browsers are Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. There have been many studies and tests done to find out which is the most secure of them. However, the tests are able only to show how each browser is matching a set of […]
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 […]
Link shortening service Bitly late Thursday announced it has suffered a data breach, and urged all users to reset their credentials. Bitly’s CEO wrote in the blogpost that they have “reasons to believe that Bitly account credentials have been compromised; specifically, users’ email addresses, encrypted passwords, API keys and OAuth tokens”. This is really bad because it […]
It is now a month since the official support from Microsoft has ended for Windows XP. Read here about strategies to move away from it. In the meanwhile, all XP users are getting this message: If you click on the link in the above picture, you see this page where you are kindly explained to move away […]
We wrote about the new Zero-day vulnerability in the Internet Explorer affects all IE Versions from 6 to 11 which is being exploited in limited and targeted attacks. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2014-1776, could allow remote code execution even if the user doesn’t click on anything. Microsoft kept their promise and fixed the problem in only 5 days after informing the […]
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