Many weeks back after much deliberation, I decided to give CloudFlare a shot. As they describe themselves… CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through our intelligent global network. We automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. We also block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources. The result: CloudFlare-powered websites see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks….

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Ever since I bought my Nexus 7 around a month back, I’ve had a closer experience with Android. One of the first things that I did was hunt through for security applications, especially antivirus apps. Below are some of the most popular antivirus apps available for Android devices. Lookout Security & Antivirus Lookout keeps your tablets and phones, and everything on them, safe and secure. Lookout offers essential protection against all the bad stuff that can happen to your phone or tablet, like viruses, loss, and theft. The free version of the app will detect and remove viruses and spyware…

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Sad, but true: If you spend a lot of time on your computer, there’s no doubt that you’ll experience data storage problems at some point, whether it’s a mechanical failure or a failure on your part. In this increasingly digital world, data is becoming the most important thing you can create. When that data – personal, financial or otherwise – is lost, by golly you need to get it back. These bits and bytes that make up your data should be your top priority as you begin setting up your protective strategies. Remember that applications and operating systems can be reinstalled,…

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There have been concerns about the security of your files in Dropbox. Recently Dropbox added another layer of security similar to Google’s two step verification. When you enable two-step verification, whenever you want to login to Dropbox, you will need to use your password, and a security code that will either be texted to your mobile phone or generated by a mobile authenticator app (available for iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7). To turn on two-step verification go to the new Security tab in your Dropbox account settings and enable two-step verification in the “Account sign in” section. Navigate…

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The good folks at AVG have released their latest suite of antivirus and security products. Title AVG 2013, the suite includes AVG AntiVirus FREE 2013, AVG AntiVirus 2013, AVG Internet Security 2013 and AVG Premium Security. For users of the popular free program (2nd most popular antivirus download on Download.com), the new AVG has a brand new interface which allows users to quickly enable and configure the antivirus, which runs out-of-the-box when you install it. The new antivirus has a smaller footprint on your memory which ensures that its not your antivirus that eats up the free memory leaving less…

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By now, most the WWW is abuzz with the security compromise at Linkedin. It is good to note that the team at Linkedin have been quick to respond and have blocked all the compromised accounts requiring you to reset your Linkedin password. Affected users have also been informed by email. Note that the email has no links in it. Visit the Linkedin website directly to change your password. If you receive an email saying it is from Linkedin asking you to change the password which has a link, be careful. It might be a phishing email. LastPass has created a…

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Almost every site on the web today has some kind of tracking inbuilt, be it the simple ads that you see or the pieces of code to track site visits or even the social networking buttons. Some may retain this information as you browse from site to site, while others don’t. The power to choose who to stop tracking is present, but is limited with most browsers requiring some kind of an addon / plugin. The new Internet Explorer 9 brings this feature to you inbuilt into the browser. But, the new IE’s features do not stop just there. Internet…

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How to Detect the Spyware and Malware Spywares and malwares are considered to be a greater threat than computer viruses. This is because the detection of a spyware or a malware in the computer is very tough and you cannot be sure that a spyware or a malware is present in the PC, until the time you notice the loss of data or the popping up of unwanted advertisements. This is the reason why it becomes highly imperative as a computer user to know how to detect as well as cure a spyware or malware attack. Although spywares and malwares…

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Its pretty clear that we all need to have use a powerful anti-virus software to protect our computer from possible threats. It’s important that we make sure to check if its making all the updates with the newest virus definitions and do a full system scan to stay protected all the time. This may use a lot of system resource while in use and eventually slows down your Pc. Panda Cloud Antivirus is a free lightweight antvirus solution that makes sure to process and scan everything on their servers so that it doesn’t use your computer resources while it runs….

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Fed up of spam in your Inbox, especially from forums, social networking sites, websites etc. where you shared your email at one point of time? scr.im is a new service that allows you to convert your email into a URL that ensures that a user keen on finding out your email goes the extra step. You can begin by entering your email address on the site and choosing a URL. Hit Protect my email and you’re email address will, well,… be protected! You can then enter the URL of your choice in Twitter, Facebook, in HTML pages, on your blog,…

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