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  • 21 May 2012

  • How-Tos: How to secure Windows 8

    We often use our computers to store sensitive personal information, so it’s vital you keep it secure from prying eyes. Here's how to secure Windows 8.

  • 11 May 2012

  • How-Tos: How to choose a strong secure password

    Do you use the same password for every online account? It's easy to become lazy and do just that, but using these simple techniques, you'll be able to remember strong passwords for different websites.

  • How-Tos: Manage your passwords with KeePass

    Everyone has to remember scores of usernames and passwords these days. We show you how a simple free utility - KeePass - can store and manage them safely for you.

  • How-Tos: How to Control Your Facebook Privacy Settings

    Facebook's privacy settings are confusing by design, often hiding similar settings in totally different menus and defaulting to unnerving levels of public sharing. Ensuring that you share the right information with the right people can be difficult, and Facebook even has a few specialized settings that will override your other privacy settings if you aren't careful. Luckily you can take control of your privacy on Facebook fairly quickly once you know what you're looking for.

  • How-Tos: Speed Up Searches--And Reduce Typing--With Drag and Drop Search

    Drag and Drop Search is a free Chrome extension that offers an elegant solution to a common problem: Searching on the website that will give you the answers you need. Google is a great engine, but there is no reason to go through it for everything. If you're after quick facts and figures, you might be better off searching Wikipedia directly; if it's videos you're after, then a direct YouTube search might let you find them faster. If you'd like to get a sense for a place, searching for it on Flickr will show you what it's like. With Drag and Drop Search installed, you only need to select a term, then drag and drop it on the name of the search engine you'd like to use.

  • 09 May 2012

  • How-Tos: Protect Yourself From DNSChanger

    In July the Internet Systems Consortium will permanently shut down DNS servers deployed to serve as temporary surrogates for rogue DNS servers shut down as part of Operation Ghost Click, an FBI operation that brought down an Estonian hacker ring last year. If your PC is one of the more than 1 million computers infected that carry DNSChanger you might unknowingly be relying on one of the FBI's temporary servers to access the Internet, and if you don't eliminate DNSChanger from your PC before the FBI pulls the plug on its servers, you'll be left without Internet access. Read on to learn how to discover whether you're infected with DNSChanger, and what you can do to eliminate it from your system.

  • 03 May 2012

  • How-Tos: How to protect your iPhone from theft

    Anti-theft iPhone advice, and top tips to stop thieves disabling Find My iPhone

  • 05 April 2012

  • How-Tos: Working at Starbucks? Lock Down Your Data with HotSpot Shield

    Think that coffee-shop Wi-Fi hotspot is secure? Think again. Most public hotspots, including those at airports, hotels, and even Starbucks, aren't secure at all. In fact, when your laptop connects to one of these networks, it’s easy pickings for hackers -- even if you have a firewall installed.

  • 27 March 2012

  • How-Tos: How to delete a Facebook account

    Facebook is something of a phenomenon in our heavily online world but what do you do if you want to delete your account on the social network? It might be taking up too much of your time, the adverts might be getting to you or you don't like social networking after giving it a go. Whatever your reasons are for leaving, you can delete your account in a few simple steps.

  • 26 March 2012

  • How-Tos: How to back up and restore with Crashplan

    No matter how often we bang on about it, there will always be some people who neglect to back up their valuable data. But it’s an important task, so we’ll repeat our advice: fail to back up, and you’ll risk losing everything stored on your PC. Here, we show you how with Crashplan.

  • 20 March 2012

  • How-Tos: Install antivirus on Android phones and tablets

    With every new smartphone release, handsets are getting more powerful and more popular. They're also rammed with personal information that hackers want to steal. Make sure you keep your details safe by installing antivirus software.

  • 28 February 2012

  • How-Tos: How to password-protect Android apps

    All Google Android handsets support a screen lock, whereby a unique password, PIN or pattern must be entered before access to your apps, contacts, messages and more is granted. But some of us would prefer to restrict access to the data we need to protect only.

  • 27 February 2012

  • How-Tos: How to protect your privacy on Google

    Under new privacy rules that Google is implementing on March 1, all of the data that Google collects based on your usage of YouTube, Gmail, Google+ and Google search will be aggregated into one user profile.

  • 24 February 2012

  • How-Tos: How to use Google 2-step verification

    It pays to be as security-conscious as possible with online accounts. Here we show you how to get started with new Google safety measures to protect your email and documents.

  • 14 February 2012

  • How-Tos: How to download your Facebook archive

    Facebook introduced the Dowload Your Information feature, which allows social networkers to make a copy of all the their data stored on the site, in 2010.

  • 09 February 2012

  • How-Tos: How to enable Login notifications in Facebook

    Since Facebook launched, the social network has constantly been adding new function and features that ensure users can maintain their privacy and keep their accounts secure

  • 07 February 2012

  • How-Tos: How to change the Subscribe options on Facebook

    In December last year, Facebook introduced the Subscribe feature that allows you to see the public updates in your news feed even if you're not friends with them.

  • 02 February 2012

  • How-Tos: How to use Norton Identity Safe on a PC

    This week, Symantec made a free beta version on its Norton Identity Safe publicly available to all web users.

  • 27 January 2012

  • How-Tos: How to Prevent Thumb Drive Security Disasters

    Small USB flash drives can cause big security headaches. Learn how four very different organizations have managed to balance the need to allow employees to transfer files for legitimate business purposes with the need to prevent data leaks.

  • 26 January 2012

  • How-Tos: How to hack an iPad

    Most iPad and iPhone owners rely on their Apple ID password to prevent access to their account details. This won't stop a hacker gaining access to your personal account and log in details. Here's how to hack an iPad.

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