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6 Ways to Keep Your Financial Information Private

Finance

The world is now revolving online. You can pay bills, buy groceries and trade stocks – carry out just about any type of financial transaction you want – while lying on your favorite couch at home, using your laptop or smartphone. However, identity theft is also a real threat, and keeping your financial data private requires that you take a proactive stand in how you approach your own online security. Whether you are someone who files your hard-copy bank statements and loan depot review information routinely or only carries out your transactions online, there are ways of minimizing the risk of your information landing in the wrong hands. Here are six ways of keeping your financial information as it should be – private. Get a Shredder If possible, you should always limit the amount of p...

Should You Encrypt Entire Drive, Or Just Group Of Files – Pros And Cons

Technology

What is "encryption?" Several times you have heard about the word, and particularly while shopping online. Do you exactly know what it is in exact? Here's a short briefing about it. In basic terms it is a method of protecting data from people to whom you don't to see those like details of credit card while purchasing a product from Amazon. The computer encrypts the credit card information to prevent it being stolen by anyone while being transferred. Similarly you can also encrypt a file stored in your computer by encrypting it. No one will henceforth open it without submitting a valid password. The password encryption process is required for everything from keeping your cloud storage safe to securing your email and from sending sensitive information to hiding entire ope...

Will 2017 Bid Adieu To Password Authentication Systems For Biometrics

Technology

Are you a supporter of the campaign to eliminate passwords like FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance executive director Brett McDowell, Nok Nok Labs CEO Phil Dunkelberger, Palo Alto Networks senior group manager Scott Simkin, and several more big names who believe this might be the year a new generation of authentication technology is compulsorily required. The support team believes the new authentication technology should be largely based on bio metrics. The new standards need to be defined by a massive collaboration of hundreds of companies. The security problems with passwords are known for past few years and it is well documented too. Its paradigm was never designed for cases of modern society. Also, only technology just not compromise the passwords to hackers, but users too ...