January 29th, 2010 by admin
Hackers are always in the look of a loophole to get access to your wireless network. Hackers have been creating a mess with many cases involving users to face unexpected internet bills and loss of private data through wireless networks. So in order to prevent any kind of such unfortunate hack into your network first spend some time with user manuals of your networks and understand their working and follow measures for their security.
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January 25th, 2010 by admin
The world of portable power develops rapidly every day. More and more portable devices are designed for customers to make their everyday life easier. Millions of people use laptops for different purposes. Some of them use computers just for entertainment while most part of people use them at work. Everyone has a friend or a relative in a foreign country. In order to keep in touch with each other we send emails form our laptops. As for me I have Hp laptop because this brand has long life Hp laptop batteries. Most of my classmates enjoy using HP laptop. We have lecturers every day and can’t cope with home tasks without computers. Laptop is a really great invention!
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January 13th, 2010 by admin
With the upcoming of latest technologies comes the risk of saving it from harms. In order to help yourself to save your own home computer network from any kind of harm you should be aware of the terms involved with the networking. The entire system including the software, the data, the number of computers and even the users using it is combined and termed as the Asset. The minimal security that you needed for network is called as the Baseline. Unauthorized personals can be restricted to view your data by encrypting it.
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October 26th, 2009 by admin
By the end of 2008 it is estimated that 52% of American households will have a computer network set up, allowing more than one computer to access the internet at any given time. Defined in it’s simplest form, a computer network is two or more computer systems linked by either a cable or a wireless device, sharing files or internet access. If there is no central server in use then the network is called a peer to peer network, of P2P, in which all computers are equal. This is also known a workgroup, a name coined by Microsoft.
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October 12th, 2009 by admin
Microsoft took a totally clean computer system and allowed it to be turned into a “zombie” for an experiment. Over only three weeks they noted that the zombie computer received over 5 million connection requests; these all came from spammers around the world. It also received 18 million spam messages, sent by 13,000 different websites. This was all to a single computer. A zombie is a computer infected with any form of malicious software, also known as “malware”, that can be used by the attacker to control aspects of the computers behavior remotely.
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September 26th, 2009 by admin
Microsoft launched the Windows XP firewall to help combat their customers concerns over security. As a single firewall it will only protect the computer it is installed on, unless the system is using internet sharing in which case the firewall will protect all networked computers. Activating the Windows XP firewall is simple and achievable by using the Start menu. Access the control panel and then your network and internet connections. Simply select “Firewall”, turn it on here, and you are done.
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August 24th, 2009 by admin
Your computer network is at risk. So what can you do to protect it? Start off with learning the terminology. An Asset is your entire system including computers, the software, the data, and the people who use it. The baseline is the minimum level of security that you need. Encryption is a way of altering data so it cannot be viewed by those who are not authorized. Risk analysis is identifying the risk of assets.
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August 24th, 2009 by admin
Creating wireless computer network will allow you to have all of your computers, or printer, and other devices connected. The whole process is very simple and you should have no problem setting it up. You will need a wireless router, and if your devices do not have wireless built in you will have to use wireless adapter cards for them. The router itself acts as a firewall to protect your computer from being accessed by someone outside of your network.
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August 24th, 2009 by admin
You should be concerned with protecting your wireless computer network from being hacked. Worst case scenario is that a outsider could connect to your computers or at the least use your internet connection. Spend the time to understand how your wireless computer network works, and then take the necessary steps to secure it. Considering that your privacy is at stake it is worth going through your systems documentation and taking the steps to secure it.
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August 24th, 2009 by admin
Having a small computer network allows all of the computers in the business to use one internet connection, and for the computers to share files. Setting up a computer network is a simple task. The first step to setting up a small business computer network is to decide what the requirements will be. Before you choose wether you will be using a wireless network or a wired one remember that a wired one will be more secure.
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