Author Archives: Dominic

Social Malware – 5 Ways to Protect Your Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Accounts

From Facebook to Twitter, the number of social network users has exponentially multiplied over the past year.  Now, with over 1.4 billion users, integrated social networking tools have become a key mode of communication for people’s personal lives and business ventures. Facebook alone has over 1 billion monthly active members, making Facebook Malware a big target for cyber criminals. Not only has the number of networkers increased, but it’s estimated that the average person spends 16% of their time on social sites, often accessing these websites from numerous different devices, both work provided and personal.  With quick and almost incessant sharing across networks between friends, acquaintances, coworkers, and family, we’re passively absorbing information at rates like never before.  Oftentimes, users fail to check the source of a link or message, and cyber criminals are counting on it. read more

Android Voice Commands You Should Know

Just like knowing keyboard shortcuts for your PC, knowing android voice commands can really save you a lot of time when using your Android phone. For those who don’t know what I am talking about, with your Android phone, you can simply hit a button then give your phone a verbal command. The phone will then carry out an action based on the command you used.

Android Voice Activation

It is pretty simple to activate voice on your Android. First, look for the Google Search widget on your phone. Most phones come with this on one of your home screens. If this is not on your home screen, you can add the widget by going to apps->widgets and then adding “Google Search”. Now that you have found the Google Search widget, simply click the microphone icon to activate Android actions. read more

Easy Port Forwarding Setup

Port forwarding allows you to send traffic coming into your local IP address to a specific computer on your network. As you may already know, many routers are designed to block traffic from most ports for security reasons.

There are many reasons you may want to setup port forwarding on your router. Perhaps you want to run a game server, or maybe you want to host a website or database from your home. If you want to run a game server, there are private game servers that you can choose from. For instance, in Minecraft, one of the most popular games in the world, you and other players are free to build and explore anything you want in a 3D generated world. By running your own Minecraft server, you can determine the rules, and you and your friends can play together. If you, however, are of the opinion that you would need some basic idea and help on how you can set up a server for your game, you can look at online resources (such as the ones at https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/how-to-set-up-minecraft-server-on-ubuntu-or-debian/) and articles that can help you out. read more

Malware: Understanding the Enemy

To emphasize the nature of malware, you should keep in mind that it stands for ‘malicious’ or ‘malevolent’ software, both words being defined as something that is designed to harm you. These various sets of computer codes were created with the intent to intrude your computer and steal sensitive information from you. Recent findings also reveal that cyber criminals are now able to use them to gain administrative control to your computer, meaning it will only take them a couple of clicks on their mouse to open your web camera or to access you documents. read more

The Future for Mobile Phones

The mobile phone is fast becoming so much more than a mere communication device. For many people, it has already effectively become the remote control handset for their lives.

Despite still usually being referred to as a mobile it incorporates a dizzying array of functions that used to have their own separate boxes, and not too long ago at that. There’s the entertainment device, the organizer, the security center and the payment device to name a few, all exquisitely designed and developed by precision engineers. read more