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LegalKeeping your computer—including its operating system and all the installed third-party software—up to date is extremely important, but it needn’t be a hassle or inconvenience. Here’s a look at three tools you can use regularly to keep your system current.
The Windows operating system and all the software we use on it are constantly evolving, due [...]
The Definitive Guide to Keeping Your PC Up to Date – Updates – Lifehacker
Web browser choice matters – Mozilla Links
By Percy Cabello
Our lives are full of choices. Where to eat? What to read? Who to spend time with?
The choices we make determine the quality of our life, and how we see the world. So many of these choices we take quite seriously, weighing the consequences, thinking about the implications, and choosing carefully and thoughtfully.
So [...]
French government also warns Internet Explorer users – Mozilla Links
Just like the German government did last week, the French government via the National Information Systems Security Agency (Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information) has also issued an alert, recommending users to switch to another web browser regarding an Internet Explorer’s vulnerability that was exploited to hack Google servers in China.
Here’s a translated [...]
IE: Update for critical vulnerability announced – Browsers – derStandard.at> Web
Microsoft will offer an “out-of-cycle” security update – but it first had to be well balanced “Regrettably, we must note that one of our products has been used for criminal activities.
Therefore we cooperate with Google, other partners in the software industry and international agencies to educate the facts, ” said Microsoft in a press release [...]
German Government: Stop Using Internet Explorer
674ShareemailshareIn a statement issued today, the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology known as BSI recommends that all Internet Explorer users switch to an alternative browser. They may resume using Explorer after a fix is issued by Microsoft for a critical vulnerability that has been implicated in the Chinese cyberattack against Google.If you [...]
StopBadware.org – ISPs and the fight against bots
For the last several months, some of the folks at Comcast have been working on a draft IETF document to inform ISPs about the role they can play in remediating bots on their customers’ computers. This is a tricky challenge: on one hand, ISPs are in a great position to detect bot activity, notify their [...]
Quick and easy file encryption
There are all kinds of ways to secure things. Stuff it in the back of a closet. Stick it under a mattress. Bury it in the back yard in a coffee can. These techniques might best be called “security by obscurity”. After all, if nobody can find your stuff, then they can’t mess with it.
Of [...]
Google reveals a part of their stored user information – Internet – krone.at
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Yadis! Backup
It’s an easy-to-use backup-tool, which will save you a lot of troubles. It guards your personal data by making real-time copies whenever you make changes to your documents to almost any destination you choose.
via Yadis! Backup.
TU Berlin – Sicherheit im Internet – Update-Liste
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