Blocking ads is a great way to speed up your browsing and greatly improve your internet experience. Many of these Chrome extensions have extra features that set them apart and add convenience. Contents: AdBlock AdBlock Plus AdBlocker Ultimate AdGuard Ad Guardian AdLock Ghostery uBlock Origin AdBlock AdBlock is one of the most popular browser extensions…
Devices are getting smarter. Everything from cellphones to refrigerators are connected to the internet. By 2020, there will be more than 20 billion IoT units in the world. The number of IoT devices in the world recently surpassed the world’s population. The installed base of hard-to-secure smart things, such as TVs, fridges, and security cameras, is…
Apple is widely regarded as a tech company that actually cares about privacy for people using its devices. However, using an iPhone over an Android device doesn’t guarantee you better privacy protection. One feature that concerns us from a privacy standpoint is the location suggestion feature. While Apple protects that location data with your pass code, FaceID…
If you have certain files that contain sensitive information, one way to keep the contents private is to lock the folder with a password. If you store financial or health records on your computer, it’s a good idea to use some sort of additional security to keep these private. How To Password Protect a Folder…
Popular websites and internet companies, like Amazon, Netflix and Facebook, use collaborative filtering to make recommendations to users about what they may be interested in. Collaborative filtering is what lets Amazon recommend other products, Netflix recommend new shows or movies, and how Facebook determines which posts you see in your News Feed. What is Collaborative Filtering?…
A correctly implemented security certificate, like an SSL or TLS certificate is what makes your website secure. It will protect the data that is transmitted from your visitor’s computer to your website and back. We’re explaining the best way to implement HTTPS security on your website. Step 1: Host With Dedicated IP Address To use…
Contents Privacy Badger uBlock Origin LessPass Cookie AutoDelete HTTPS Everywhere Decentraleyes uMatrix Search Encrypt TrackMeNot NoScript Security Suite Privacy Badger Privacy Badger is a tracker blocker that learns which trackers to block. Rather than maintaining a blacklist of “tracking” domains, Privacy Badger watches which domains follow you from site to site and blocks them once…
Government agencies around the world have started experimenting with using facial recognition technology in their surveillance and security efforts. While this surveillance may seem concerning, perhaps even more scary is that marketers are also using facial recognition data for identifying and tracking their customers. Companies spent $3.35 billion on facial recognition technology in 2016. That…
RKill is an antivirus program on Windows that terminates malware and other viruses. You should use RKill along with other antivirus software for removing viruses and malware from you device. RKill is a simple utility that will stop known malware processes from running on your device. While it will kill the malware from running, it won’t…
Whitelists and blacklists are ways of filtering specific types of data, or from blocking malicious or unauthorized access to systems or databases. In the context of computer security, blacklisting and whitelisting are used as a means of access control. However, there are some differences between the two methods, and each method has its own advantages.…
Twofish is an encryption algorithm designed by Bruce Schneier. It’s a symmetric key block cipher with a block size of 128 bits, with keys up to 256 bits. It is related to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and an earlier block cipher called Blowfish. Twofish was actually a finalist to become the industry standard for encryption,…
Key Escrow is an arrangement in which the cryptographic keys needed to decrypt certain data are held in escrow. This essentially means that an organization trusts a third party to store a backup of the cryptographic key in case of either disaster or security breach. Contents: What is the purpose of key escrow? Security Risks…
