World Backup Day 2012

Backup your data: March 31st is World Backup Day

This Saturday, March 31st once again is “World Backup Day”, so be sure to create a backup of all your important data! For those who don’t know, World Backup Day started last year as a Reddit post from Ismail Jadum. He had a friend that sadly lost some data, and this person thought that it would be [...]

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How to restore files using Windows 8 File History [step by step]

Windows 8 File History is a sleek way to backup and restore those important files in case you accidentally delete them or if you want to recover a previous version of a particular document. Plus how to protect unauthorized access to the files that has been backed up. In a previous article, you learned how to set up [...]

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How to wipe a hard drive using CCleaner

Many people don’t know this, but when you delete any type of data from the computer hard drive, Windows doesn’t actually delete the data, it only removes the pointer that is associated with that particular piece of data. Windows also marks that space, where the deleted data resides, as eligible to be overwritten if the space is [...]

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Avoid cookiejacking, the latest Internet Explorer thread and stay safe online from social engineering

Cookiejacking is a new social engineering technique (security risk) recently discovered by Rosatio Valotta, an Italian Internet security researcher, that may affect all the versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer. Cookiejacking is a version of an attack type known as clickjacking. This new exploit uses sophisticated techniques similar used with clickjacking to allow an attacker to [...]