How to Protect Yourself from Hacking Attacks

Hacking attacks happen all the time and pose a real security threat. Here are ten things you can do to protect yourself:

1) Don’t use the same password for all of your user accounts. Choose a variety of passwords, and make each one strong (no full words, use both numbers and letters). Keep your list […]

October 5th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: How To, Hacking, Passwords, Firewalls, Software, Networks, Resources, Security | Leave a comment

How to Configure a Hardware Firewall

Devices that provide hardware firewalls usually need to be configured. It may be that the default factory settings are OK, and you don’t need to do anything extra. But, it would be good to contact your ISP, and ask if they have instructions for configuring your firewall with high security.

For example, I just installed […]

September 21st, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: How To, Hacking, Firewalls, Security | Leave a comment