Although not an official part of the holiday season, that President Obama has declared October to be National Cyber Security Awareness Month is a good thing. If people can take an awareness of cyber security and turn it into positive actions, maybe the good guys can...
Last week, Internet criminals broke into the computers of Experian, one of the “big three” credit reporting bureaus. The crooks made off with the account information of 15 million T-Mobile users, including names, addresses, birth dates, ID numbers (driver’s license,...
We began looking last week at the nifty program called Ccleaner, where I covered the program’s “Cleaner” function. This week, let’s look at the Registry and Drive Wiper functions. First, an understanding of the Windows registry is in order. The Windows registry is a...