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From SECNAP Alerts:
Protecting your online identity can be as easy as A-B-C, as long as you don’t make “abc123″ or “password” your Internet password!
It seems like an issue of common sense, but even as we head into 2012 and people are becoming more and more tech savvy, a lot of web users are clueless about [...]

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Identity theft is one of the most common cyber-crimes these days, as more and more people become dependent on the internet for many of their needs. Fortunately, following some simple tips can do wonders to help your online experience become much more secure.
Security experts are seeing a rise in the incidence of cyber-crime these days [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
A new Windows worm is working its way through company networks by taking advantage of weak passwords, security researchers said over the weekend. The worm, dubbed “Morto” by Microsoft and Helsinki-based F-Secure, has been circulating since at least last week, when company administrators noticed systems generating large numbers of unexplained connections to the [...]

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As we recently mentioned in a post about the hacker attack on Sony’s gaming networks, people often take a very risky shortcut with passwords that can put their data at risk. Most of us are guilty of using the same login ID and password for multiple sites, such as our email, banking, and credit card [...]

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Have you ever clicked “Never Remember” for a password, only to decide later that you do want Firefox to remember it?  Here’s how you can get Firefox to re-prompt you.
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Published with permission from TechAdvisory.org. Source.

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Your email account contains much of your private information. If this vital info gets into the hands of email hackers they can do a lot of harm to you and all your email contacts.
Email hacking is becoming a common problem of web users. As more people have become dependent on the internet for almost everything [...]

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The average computer and Internet user manages over a dozen passwords for various websites. You probably have passwords for your computer, your company email, your personal online email accounts, your favorite social networking websites, your twitter feed, your online bank account, your favorite online store, and more. Using the same password for everything is not [...]

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Security firm Imperva recently released a warning to users of popular social networking website RockYou indicating that their accounts and passwords may have been compromised. According to the firm, a hacker may have accessed an alarming 32 million accounts. But what is more interesting in the wake of this news is an analysis made of [...]

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