Are you a Dropbox user? Are you taking advantage of Dropbox referrals? If you are, this is going to get you excited, the storage Cloud service is now doubling the amount of free space up to 1GB every time you make someone use Dropbox. This doubles the previous amount of referral free additional space that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Learn step by step how to set up Windows 8 File History to backup your data periodically to an external drive or shared folder in the network and prevent data loss. In Windows 7 or in Windows Vista, or even in Windows XP (manually) you probably used the feature “Previous versions” to create a copy of files [...]
Storage Spaces in Windows 8 is a new storage virtualization feature set to be used like a traditional RAID setup, but it was designed with the user in mind to be easy to use and maintain. Lately Microsoft has been demonstrating a lot of interesting features for the up coming version of their operating system. [...]
In this How-To guide you’ll learn step-by-step how to backup and restore an Encrypting File System (EFS) certificate on Windows. This is the situation, instead of using encryption with BitLocker, you opted to use the encryption attribute feature within Windows. For a while you were able to access and modify encrypted data with no problem. [...]
Symantec, the world known security software maker, has discovered the Duqu virus that uses a security hole found in Microsoft Windows to infect computers and steal data. Experts think that Duqu virus could be the next biggest Cyber threat. Microsoft already admitted the security issue and in a statement they are assuring that they are [...]
For those of you that have been experimenting with Google+, you may have noticed that this new social network has a lot similarities with Facebook, not only in design but also in its features. One of them, and also the one I am going to be detailing in this article, is the ability for users [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]