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5 Ways to Keep Your Mobile Phone Safe

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Think about how it feels to lose your wallet. The money, the credit card, all the essential data you need to function in the world. Now think about this: 57% of the mobile phone users we surveyed said their mobile phone contains more important information their wallet. MORE! Over the last few years, our mobile [...]
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How We Give Away Our Privacy (And How to Take It Back)

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Deciding what information should be public isn’t just important for your reputation and mental health. Keeping your account numbers and identifying information secret can help prevent financial fraud, protecting you and property. In a country like Syria in the midst of turmoil, your privacy can be a matter of life and death. But for most [...]
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How Antivirus Protects You

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There are many excellent reasons to follow F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen on Twitter. On a nearly daily basis he breaks news about Internet security or digital life in general. This Saturday, he used his feed to explain in just a few tweets why Internet security is so crucial. A fellow Twitter user asked Mikko [...]
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3 Steps to Secure Your Mac

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Over the past few weeks Macs have been hit with a widespread malware attack. Per capita, the Flashback trojan infected as many machines as Conficker, the Windows malware that made international news in 2008. For proud Mac users this is finally enough evidence to convince some that Mac malware actually exists. Here’s what you need [...]
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Mac Users: Update, Disable or Remove Your Java

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We know that one of the big reasons your or your loved ones got a Mac is because you didn’t want to worry about viruses, malware or other technical time wasters. Unfortunately, the Mac Flashback trojan may have infected over 500,000 Apple computers and is attempting to use these computers to generate email spam and more. [...]
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