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Research Shows: Solid State Drives Are More Difficult to Erase

by Jeff Weisbein February 23, 2011
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We have been erasing hard drives and other storage mediums for years now with much success by overwriting the data with zeros and ones several times.  However, with the adoption of SSDs that may not be sufficient anymore.  According to researches at the University of California at San Diego, “newer solid state disks have a much different [...]

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Are You a Walking Target for Identity Theft?

by Mike Mansell December 24, 2010
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Identity theft – the action in which another individual impersonates you in order to defraud an organization or yourself – is not a new concept by any stretch of the imagination.  In 1964 when the term “identity theft” was first coined, the majority of fraud incidents involved individuals who physically stole identification and documents in [...]

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Advanced: Mac Security Guide

by Keaton Taylor October 20, 2010
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If you have not already read The Basics: Mac Security, now would be the time to ensure you have a complete understanding of the basics. In the previous article we discussed the basics in Mac Security. Now we will be taking it one step further by explaining more advanced techniques to really lock down your [...]

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Google To Consider Full HTTPS For GMail

by Matt Hodges June 17, 2009
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You may or may not be aware, but every time you log in to GMail you pass through an HTTPS, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, connection.  HTTPS is a combination of the regular HTTP and a cryptographic protocol and is used to pass sensitive information over the internet.  Google implements this into the login portion [...]

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