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Check your Windows Firewall: protect yourself and your information from hackers.

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It might be important to mention from this point that the Windows default firewall may not be adequate enough to protect your computer from intrusion or anomaly. There is usually a need to combine this with other security solutions such as a reliable anti-virus and/or a host-based intrusion detection system. Going straight to the point, […]

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Tips on Using social media more healthily {Part 2: Unhealthy use of Social Media}

6 Comments / Cyber Psychology, Mental Health, Security, Teen Security, Teens and young adults

We believe you have read part 1 of this article and have seen some of the unhealthy ways we use social media and some negative implications of this. If you have not read the Part 1 of Unhealthy use of social media, we recommend you do so as this is a summary of the 2 previous posts on the

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Unhealthy Use of Social Media {Part 1 Cont’d – Negative Implications}

7 Comments / Cyber Psychology, Cybersecurity, Mental Health, Physical Security, Security, Teen Security, Teens and young adults

This is a continuation of Unhealthy Use of Social Media and its negative implications. Click here to read the previous part of this article. Let’s dive right in. 5- Information about your family/personal life: did you know you can put your family also at risk by posting on your own social media? Yes, you can! However,

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Common Security Attacks and the OSI Layer They Operate

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Layer 5 Session Hijacking: When users browse the internet, the web server sends a token to each user’s browser to identify the connection from each user. In a session hijacking attack, an attacker steals a valid session token to gain unauthorised access to a web server. Methods used by attackers to achieve this include a

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