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How to Disable the Infrared Port on Your Laptop

According to computer security experts, some mysterious software out there can tunnel into your laptop via the infrared (IR) port. To stop this from happening, you can disable your laptop’s infrared port [more…]

How to Encrypt Important Files or Folders on Your Laptop

If your laptop’s hard drive is set up with NTFS formatting, Windows can scramble or encrypt your files. (This feature may not be available in some versions of Windows.) Encryption provides extra security [more…]

How to Lock Your PC

Consider locking your computer, rather than logging out. You can lock your computer if you need to go do something else but don’t want to shut everything down, like when you log out. To lock your computer [more…]

How to Disable the Windows XP Guest Account on Your Laptop

The Windows XP Guest account allows anyone to use your laptop. Even considering that the Guest account is highly limited, that's just enough for a data thief to get a foothold and start hacking away. [more…]

How to Protect Your Laptop from Theft

You can protect your laptop from a disastrous theft by taking a few precautions. Here are some helpful hints and suggestions on things you can do ahead of time to help prevent theft or recover your laptop [more…]

How to Secure a Laptop

This video offers a number of considerations for securing your laptop and the the personal information on it, both mechanical - like buying an inconspicuous laptop case and using a hotel safe - and electronic [more…]

How to Lock Windows on Your Laptop

If you plan on leaving your laptop for a moment, Windows has a unique locking command that you can use to keep out anyone who doesn't know your password. That way, even if you trust the other folks with [more…]

How to Log out of Your Windows Account

When several people have accounts on the same computer, you can log out to keep the computer on, toasty, and ready for someone else to log on and use it. Logging out of your Windows account is pretty simple [more…]

Tips for Ethical Hackers

As an information security professional, you may perform ethical hacking against a customer’s systems or your own. For your own safety follow these rules for success no matter who your ultimate client [more…]

Tools for Ethical Hacking

As a professional ethical hacker, your (anti) hacking toolkit is the most critical item you can possess — other than experience and common sense. Make sure you’re never caught on the job without these [more…]

Common Security Weaknesses Vulnerable to Hackers

Hackers and rogue insiders often check the vulnerabilities listed here first when they try to hack into networks and computers. Put these on your checklist when performing security tests: [more…]

Commonly Hacked Ports

Hackers know where common weaknesses are, including certain ports. If you’re guarding your network from hackers (unauthorized entry,) realize that some ports are more vulnerable than others. Pay attention [more…]

Hacking For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Ethical hacking is not only good, but necessary in today’s networked world. As an ethical hacker testing the vulnerabilities of your own systems or that of a client, you need to follow certain protocols [more…]