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Risks with Online Gaming

We all love gaming, don’t we and most of us like to play online games as well but there are lots of risks involved with online gaming also.  Phishing is most common in the online gaming world. Gamers are more likely to click on links to external sites that steal personal information as the links [...]

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Risks with Anonymous Proxy Sites

We have opened many restricted sites through the Anonymous Proxy sites someday or the other without knowing the risks and security vulnerabilities involved in this.

There are loads and loads of anonymous proxy sites available which are used by many people who are unaware how unsafe it is to use this for our confidential data. Use [...]

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Never reuse the Same Password

We happen to sign up for so many services and accounts that it becomes a problem to remember all the passwords for each of them. To avoid this problem most people wish to keep the same password for all their accounts.

In this Tip of the Week, TS advises you to never keep the same password [...]

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How to Maximize Laptop Battery Backup

Laptops are important as they can be used anywhere and without power source available. But a laptop can soon become uninteresting if it gives you improper battery backup. So here are the tips to improve laptop battery backup, in this week’s Tip of the Week.
•    Dim your screen - Most laptops come with the ability [...]

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Tips to Handle the Laptop

Laptops come handy at various situations and in places where the desktops cannot be used but apart from using these it becomes our responsibility to ensure that this product stays with us for a longer time.

So here are the tips that will guide you on how to use the Laptops to maximize their life in [...]

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Tip of the Week: Beware of Phishing

You must have heard about phishing these days, well in case you haven’t then we have more on this topic in this week’s Tip of the Week.

Phishing is a type of scam designed to steal your personal data (such as credit card numbers, account data, passwords or other valuable information) by masquerading as a trustworthy [...]

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Tip of the Week: How to use Internet Safely

In this week’s tip, we will share how to use the internet safely and effectively.

Inappropriate use of Internet is unsafe and can lead to several and big problems. It may result in loss of confidential data/Intellectual property, damage to critical internal systems and more. Some of the practices that can harm our system and confidentiality [...]

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Tip of the Week: How to Make Passwords Difficult to Guess

We are back with this Week’s Tip where we will learn few tips on how to make Passwords difficult to guess.
In our day to day lives we need to store our information and thus we require passwords for that, but here is how to make your passwords strong and difficult to guess.
Tips:
• Ensure that your password [...]

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Tip of the Week: Beware of Scareware

There are various different kinds of the malicious threats to the computer that remembering each of them is bit tedious. The threats include virus, malware, adware, Trojans but apart from these there is Scareware about which not everyone is aware of.

Scareware is a type of software that frightens you into downloading and purchasing certain rogue [...]

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Tip of the Week: Clean Computer Table

So when was the last time you cleaned up your computer table? It is the case of most of the people who do not clean their computer table tends to mess up all their important stuffs and thus lose out on it.
The common things that mess up your computer table are unorganized books, CDs, USB drives [...]

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Tip of the Week: Uninstall unwanted Programs

Despite of the busy schedule and the hectic day we are back with this week’s edition of Tip of the Week.
This week’s tip is to keep your system clean by uninstalling unwanted programs and applications from your computer.
Tip:
We have a habit of installing several programs in our computer don’t we? But with the passage of [...]

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How to Dispose Off a CD/DVD

We have lots of CD DVD disks with us, don’t we? Now what if you have burnt some important and secret data on the CDs but do not wish to use it in future?

No doubt, you should dump or dispose the CD but what is the best way to do that? Breaking a CD involves [...]

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