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  • 30 April 2013

  • Opinion: How to avoid the best malware scams

    Malware can make life miserable by infecting your PC, laptop or smartphone and even stealing your money. Here are four of the top scams and how to avoid getting caught out.

  • 22 April 2013

  • Opinion: One antivirus program is better than two

    Arcticsid installed one antivirus program on a new PC that already had another. Then he asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum if that was a good idea.

  • 05 April 2013

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Back in a flash

    One analyst contends that Apple's real business model is storage, which at least explains why it's building such a huge new headquarters. Plus, your iMessages are really way more secure than they probably need to be. The remainders for Thursday, April 4, 2013 will be right back.

  • 02 April 2013

  • Opinion: Making security simple

    Conventional wisdom says that simple security is an oxymoron. Good security is complex, while uncomplicated security is weak.

  • 27 March 2013

  • Opinion: New York surveillance drones are inbound (and other stuff you missed)

    Bioshock Infinite is finally here! If you're waiting in a real-life line for your copy or for it to download to your computer, GeekBytes is the source of news stories that you might have missed while you wait for game releases--or at least it's mine, anyway.

  • 21 March 2013

  • Opinion: When you encrypt a file or a hard drive, is it really secure?

    Porcupins asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum if encryption standards like AES really make your data secure.

  • 20 March 2013

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Jailhouse rock

    Apple gives credit where credit is due, one app developer illustrates the difficulty of creating software, and police take down an Apple-related theft ring--with a twist. The remainders for Tuesday, March 19, 2013 are breakin' out of this joint.

  • 12 March 2013

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Chips and dip

    A new species of malware wants you to “like” it, the earliest iPhone is positively prehistoric, and the latest Apple TV packs a tiny surprise. The remainders for Monday, March 11, 2013 are served.

  • 11 March 2013

  • Opinion: Pausing the Parental Controls timer

    Macworld forum visitor lobsta43 has a question that follows up on my recent Mac 101 column regarding Parental Controls. The crustacean writes:

  • 08 March 2013

  • Opinion: How I ditched the security risks and lived without Java, Reader, and Flash

    Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, and Oracle's Java. All three are virtually ubiquitous on modern-day PCs, and all three provide handy-dandy functionality--functionality that, in the case of Flash and Java, can't be directly reproduced by a third-party solution. If we lived in a vacuum, it would be hard to argue that the trio doesn't deserve its spot on computers around the globe.

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: The letter two

    Apple and Sony are going head-to-head--or ear-to-ear?--over music licensing, Phil Schiller posts a tweet and the Internet goes wild, and a former Apple rival joins Cupertino in taking on a new threat. The remainders for Thursday, March 7, 2013 can't read or write.

  • 04 March 2013

  • Opinion: Use a Google Voice phone number to keep your personal number private

    Last year I shared three things you should know about Google Voice--basically a rundown of three cool ways to use the service.

  • 01 March 2013

  • Opinion: Why IT security pros can be scarier than the 'bad guys'

    I thought I harbored a healthy amount of paranoia before I went to this week's RSA Conference for IT security professionals in San Francisco. But now I'm just plain scared--and not about hackers and phishers, the perennial bogeymen of the Internet underground.

  • 26 February 2013

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: International affairs

    Apple aims for India adoption, breaks new ground down under, and gets super in the UK. The remainders for Monday, February 25, 20213 are worldly-wise.

  • Opinion: Why the police virus was so effective

    The Eastern European hackers, who were behind the worldwide fake police virus, have been arrested after making millions on their scam. More than 30 countries have been targeted since 2011, when the virus was first detected. Here's why this particular virus was so effective.

  • 25 February 2013

  • Opinion: Should you pay for internet security software?

    Do you need to pay for internet security software, or is free antivirus alone enough to protect your computer on the internet?

  • 11 February 2013

  • Opinion: ATMs: convenient, but a security risk

    It's hard to remember life without ATMs. In Hong Kong, we can transfer funds, pay our utility bills and even settle tax demand-notes using an ATM. And they even dispense cash.

  • 07 February 2013

  • Opinion: Get notified when a site's terms of service change

    You know those lengthy terms-of-service (TOS) agreements everybody ignores when installing a piece of software or registering for a new Web service?

  • 24 January 2013

  • Opinion: Answer Line: Creepy permissions for Android apps

    Sdlmd downloaded an Android app that wanted access to Contacts, even though it had no legitimate reason to check on friends and relatives. What can be done?

  • Opinion: How to prevent 'zombie accounts' from haunting your digital identity

    Zombies are a pervasive cultural theme these days. We have no shortage of zombie-apocalypse movies and literature, and the United States military and the Center for Disease Control even offer tongue-in-cheek zombie-response plans. But there are other zombies that don't get the attention they deserve--the zombie accounts you have lingering around the Internet.

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