Google, while being a company that most people automatically associate with highly professional quality services, is no more immune to failures and fiascos than any other major digital technology corporation. This is something that every single Google user should never let themselves forget, and even less so the more they depend on the Google giant for many of their online data storage and work management needs. This applies especially when it comes to the security you need in order to protect your digital information in a way that will keep it from being totally erased, hacked or stolen. Also, this…

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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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Do you often connect to secured wireless networks? And, have you ever lost the password / key for the network? Don’t panic. WirelessKeyView recovers all wireless network keys/passwords (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by the ‘Wireless Zero Configuration’ service of Windows XP and by the ‘WLAN AutoConfig’ service of Windows Vista. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard. WirelessKeyView doesn’t even require installation. You can dump it on a portable drive and carry it around with you. Using WKV is extremely simple as well. All you need to…

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If you’re like me, you’ll have hundreds of accounts all over and you’ll need to remember an equal number of usernames and passwords. Good security requires you do not keep the same password for all your accounts and so it would totally impossible for you to memorize all the passwords. This is where password managers come into play. A password manager will allow you to save the username and passwords for your various accounts and visit the site and fill in the password and login to the site. Here are five completely free software that allow you to manage your…

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If you’ve forgotten the password to edit the Excel file Excel Password Remover 2008 can come to your rescue. Excel Password Remover is a FREE Excel add-in that removes/cracks sheet and workbook password protection in Excel®. This program will remove passwords of any length, also passwords containing special characters. However, it can’t remove file protection. Which means that you should be able to open up the Excel file whose password you need to remove. Download password.xla zipped: password.zip