by David Hakala
Encryption is the scrambling of digital data in such a way that it can be read only by its creator and intended recipients. It may be advisable to encrypt the data on your hard drives; your email during transmission; the information you send or receive via a Web browser; or any other digital information that you don’t want just anyone to read.
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by Gabe Goldberg
We’re all burdened by needing too many passwords to access our multitude of shopping Web sites, banking and financial tools, work computers and networks, social media resources (Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter), etc. And by the time we listen to all the elaborate, boring — but necessary though often contradictory — advice for creating passwords, it becomes too challenging. So it’s tempting to just use our street, child’s name, or ZIP Code for everything.
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by Tina Gasperson
Q: How do you make a password protected zip file? — BPG
It used to be much more difficult to create, extract, and password protect zip files, but since Microsoft integrated file compression and archival abilities into Windows, it’s really just a click or two to get password protected zip files.
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by Dee-Ann LeBlanc
There’s two programs that once Mac users have them, they just can’t live without them. These programs are 1Password and Quicksilver. In both cases, these apps make your computing life a whole lot easier. In the case of 1Password it also makes you safer.
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by Tina Gasperson
Even a fairly casual Internet user has a list of several different passwords for things such as email, banking, shopping, and discussion forums. Do you have trouble keeping track of your passwords? Or are you one of those who have decided to use the same password for all your accounts? It’s easy to see why someone would want to do that, but it’s a very insecure way to manage your Internet life. All a cracker has to do is figure out one password and they have access to all your memberships and accounts. It’s much better to make and maintain separate, hard-to-guess passwords for each and every online login you have.
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