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How To Stay Secure in an Internet Security Jungle

How To Stay Secure in an Internet Security Jungle

Heartbleed is one of the biggest internet threats on the planet.

Detected in early April, 2014, Heartbleed is a disastrous computer bug with the potential to divulge website encryption keys, usernames, passwords, and user info to criminal hackers. The vulnerability was found in OpenSSL, a preferred cryptographic tool created to secure communications between a user’s browser and a web server. The way to tell if you are on one of these potentially affected sites is to look for a padlock sign ...

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Enabling Cookies In A Web Browser

Cookies are tiny files of information that a Web site stores on your computer. Normally you would not want anyone, anywhere, storing an information file on your computer without your permission. But cookies can be very useful. For example, when you shop on line, the Web site can store a cookie file on your computer. This cookie file can store:

  • What items you have bought before,
  • What you have in your shopping cart, and
  • Other convenient but non-private information.

The next time you visit this on ...

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