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The Ultimate Cloud Data Security Mantras For Individuals and BusinessesMarch 27, 2025SecurityCan you guarantee the data you have stored on the cloud is safe? It could be a little harsh to state it this way but the point is, you can’t. Yes, this is the fact that’s actually muddling everyone from CEOs of most reputed organizations to those of small businesses and every individual storing private data on the cloud.
Don’t worry, its not really even that bad though with security teams of cloud service providers burning the candle on both ends in keeping away the attackers from your data. However, there are many protective measures you can take on your part to ensure maximum integrity and security of your data on the cloud. In this article we mention a few very important steps, we suggest you to implement at the earliest.
(If at all you are new to the entire cloud thing, here’s what you should check out first – click here)
Here are 5 Mantras on Cloud Data Security for you:
Passwords – Be More Than Careful
You must have come across this warning many a times in your daily routine. But the fact is, people don’t really learn from others mistakes. If it were the case, the stats that 90% of all the passwords can be cracked within seconds would have just been a myth. But unfortunately it’s the truth. Until and unless you create strong passwords, almost everything you put on the internet can be compromised in no time. So make sure you follow these fundamental rules while setting up passwords anywhere on the internet:
Use a strong and difficult to guess password.
Never share your passwords with strangers, and to some point even with peers.
Also set up different passwords to different accounts.
Prefer using a standard password manager, and for lot more about them, click here.
Sensitive Information – Opt storing elsewhere
This might sound crazy, but considering the safety first rule, use the virtual world for data storage as less as possible. There’s actually no other alternative to storing your data on the internet and praying for no evil eyes to target it. However the best suggestion, if you are an individual would be to store less sensitive information on the cloud and opt for other means.
In case you are a company, you could go for the hybrid cloud model and deploy other tools like, say, honeypot etc.
Encrypted Cloud Storage – For Businesses
If you are ready to invest big on cloud data security, then this option is always available for you. These encrypted cloud storage services in addition to storage and backup, also provides facilities like encryption and decryption of all the data in your local machine. This is termed as the ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy, and is the highest level of cloud security in the market.
Under this condition, no one except you, not even the personals running the cloud (service providers) can access your information. To name a few, Spideroak, Dropbox, Box are all such service providers. But the most important part lies in identifying the potency of data at hand and deciding whether or not to invest big for its security.
B1 Free Archiver – The low budget encryption
Not every business can invest that big in reaching out for encrypted cloud services, but there are a lot of other alternatives as well. B1 Free Archiver, for example does a really good job. Likewise, there are a lot of tools over there in the internet which can encrypt all your data and protect it with a password.
The additional benefit especially with B1 Free Archiver is that once encrypted, the entire data is converted into the B1 file format and any computer on which this data is being accessed needs to have B1 Free Archiver installed on it and this tool (archiver) is believed to be more safer and effective than the zip files.
Cloud Data Security – Knowledge Matters!
Believe it or not, without knowing what you are doing, just deploying a cloud model will only get you into trouble. The best way to be prepared to any of the bizarre consequences is to have complete knowledge on the cloud model (public, private or hybrid) you require, the terms of the cloud service provider and lots of analysis to maintain the perfect balance between protection and time/money.
Other than all these, with the sensitivity of data stored, physical security denying unauthorized access into the data center is also mostly suggested. Call it preparing for bad times, in addition to the above mentioned mantras make sure you read the terms and conditions of the cloud service provider carefully, believe me you don’t want to hand your most valuable data into the hands of someone playing fool with you.
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Here Are Some Disadvantages With The SSL CertificateMarch 21, 2025SecurityNot many can doubt the enormous advantages of using a SSL certificate on your website. But wait; are there any disadvantages or bottlenecks in using this certificate? Let’s take a look at it.
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Here Are Some Of The Disadvantages Of SSL Certificate:
Cost is an obvious disadvantage, suppliers of SSL certificates need to implement a reliable infrastructure and validate the identity of the purchaser and in all this there is an associated cost that is transferred to the final value. Obviously those suppliers of SSL certificates that are more popular considerably increase their values. The performance can further be a disadvantage with SSL certification. As the information you submit must be encrypted by the server which requires more resources than usual. Although this difference in performance can only be detected on websites with a large number of visitors and can be minimized with a special hardware.
SSL security certificate will only deliver the information safely to visitors from your site; do not expect it to defend against all the evils of the web. Well there are plenty of things for which an SSL certificate is not designed. The SSL Certificate protects only the data integrity when in transit from one system to another. If the information happens to contain a virus, SSL also transmit the virus. In other words, while SSL is excellent to protect data in motion on a network link, both the users as well as website owners should still take all necessary precautions to avoid any undesirable malware or any action within the systems themselves.
Along SSL Certificate one must add a good security system (or find a provider hosting that can guarantee it) this way you will be one step ahead of everyone in improving confidence and experience in the web of your visitors.
Remember that although there are some disadvantages of using this SSL certificate, those are very few compared to the enormous benefits that it brings. It is very important to use them on all Websites that require sending sensitive information. Proper use of an SSL Certificate helps protect your customers and you.
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5 Ways You Can Make 2015 ‘The Year of Security’March 20, 2025Security2014 left us with the idea of being ” The Year of Hack ” with major organizations reporting cyber attacks, thus for the year 2015 to be ” The Year of Security “, here are five trends that security managers should consider this year.
The Year Of Security:
1. Cyber Crime And “Hacktivism” :
Criminals, activists and terrorists are increasingly turning to the Internet to make money, attention, or maliciously affect the operations of a company. According to Steve Durbin, Director of Internet Security Forum, cyber criminals are showing a greater degree of collaboration and technical capacity, which caught the attention of many large organizations.
This year all the organizations ought to be prepared for the unexpected and unthinkable or might simply succumb to attacks from the wild web. Working with a cloud service provider however,could simplify the various disaster recovery plans testing and implementation processes to ensure data is always protected and accessible at any instant.
2. Privacy And Regulation :
In 2014, the Office for Civil Rights USA imposed heavy fines on organizations that failed to safeguard and encrypt information of citizens that are stored electronically. This type of data or any related privacy of individuals are becoming more accessible to professionals who need to review them, but at the same time, the regulations concerning the collection, storage and use of these should be clarified.
Organizations must align with service providers who can not only offer supported cloud that can safeguard such information services, but also help them achieve and maintain a vision as security.
3. Threats Of Third Party Providers :
Organizations often rely on valuable and sensitive data from reputable suppliers. However, when this data is shared, there is a greater possibility that the data could be compromised. The cyber attack which targeted MultiStore is just one example for this. Wherein, hackers infiltrated this target by a web service application that is used by provider company to submit invoices.
Executives from all organizations should collaborate with experts in information security to specify ” what ” in the various scenarios in which critical business data can be accidentally or intentionally shared by others. Companies that have their data stored in the cloud should review security plans and disaster recovery with the providers and their SLAs to ensure they have proactive measures to increase their resilience to potential security breaches and hacks.
4. Personal Devices At Work :
The fact that employees use their own devices for work and personals, can lead to the risk that the devices are lost or stolen, besides the danger of illegal downloading of security updates, patches and reliable business applications.
Organizations that have this type of a policy or plan to deploy one must also consider the benefits of the desktops in the cloud. With such a solution, desktops end users can operate safely from an external Data Center and access data through a traditional PC or laptop. Thus, critical business data and applications remain safe while employees have access to them through any device they choose.
5. Employee Engagement :
The employees of an organization can be your greatest asset in implementing proactive security measures. For years, companies have spent millions of dollars on the formation of “security awareness” for their teams. In the future, they must promote policies that encourage their employees to take simple steps to help maintain a secure environment.This may include measures such as creating strong passwords, protecting their mobile devices like pros and the use of two-factor authentication devices as key encrypted.
Are virtual hosting and cyber security on your list of priorities for 2015? The security hosting with cloud solutions helps organizations to proactively address potential vulnerabilities, protecting critical business information. Remember to contact your service provider to have advice on what you require for your specific needs.
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How To Recover Files From Your SD Card Memory ?March 29, 2025PC HacksOne of the most feared threat from home PC users to IT companies is the possibility of losing data (Information) which is continuously being safeguarded using the best lines of defense.
Although every day stronger and more durable devices are being built, there could always be a new problem that could delete the data from the disk.
The problem is compounded if we speak of a SD card of our camera or our phones. For example, losing all the pictures you just put all the time and effort to click would be a problem, right?
In this article we will teach you how to use an application that can often help you recover the lost information. It is Photorec, a multi-platform application that you can use in any of the cases involving data loss.
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The great advantage of this application is looking for a particular file type from 390 possibilities i.e you can directly search by using the extension like ZIPs, JPEGs, MP3s, DOCs, XLSXs, PSDs and more.
The only fault we could find in this application is that it does not have a graphical interface, but that’s no problem if you follow the tutorial to the letter.
Download the application, it is an application that requires no installation and is completely portable.
Connect the SD card or Pen Drive or disk from which you want to recover the data and run the application. For using this application you will be need administrative rights.
Now choose a secure password.
Now choose the disk to recover, it will know by the ability of the device.
Now you will be asked to select the partition , if you have more than one partition at this point it will show all available partitions, in case if you are using only one partition it will show only one and you must choose.
The next option is focused on the type of system you are using on your disk if the disk contains a Linux system select the first option, otherwise select Other .
Now you will be asked to specify where files are to be searched , this option is somewhat useless because obviously not going to be in the free part, so select the option Whole .
Now is the time to say where we want the recovered files are to be saved. You only have to browse to where we want to do this and press the C key to set the folder.
Finally, after this the program will start the process and only playing wait for this end. When finished, we can find all files that have been able to recover within the destination folder you have selected.
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How To Install Android Apps On Google ChromeMarch 25, 2025PC HacksAndroid is an operating system designed primarily for mobile devices, on which large sums of applications are being developed, and something that’s common with many of them is that they are only compatible with this system. However, there is a way to run Android applications from any operating system that can run Google Chrome.
This recent initiative lets you run applications developed with Android compatibility on Chrome OS, and the same can be installed on Chromebooks.
Given that the Chrome OS is based primarily on the Google Chrome browser, this means that you can start Chrome in full screen mode in Windows and pretend you are using Chrome OS. There are several applications that provide Ports officers available on Chromebooks.
This expected support is just beginning, but because there are open projects of this type, the community has helped solve what Google could not achieve till date, this is how it generates a much larger number of applications of Android on any computer regardless of the operating system you have.
Archon :
Archon Runtime is a Chrome extension which can be used to run an unlimited number of Android applications created with Chrome OS-apk script . Thus it is possible to run Android apps Google Chrome, regardless of platform where they are executed. This process works on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Requirements For Installing Android apps on Google Chrome:
Know that it is necessary to have Chrome 37+ 64 bit to be installed on your computer, if that does not work you should use the development version of Chrome.
It is important to know that the extent and script hold periods of instability, also if you are using a unstable version of Google Chrome, some functions may fail or do not develop as expected. Chrome Canary is the software recommended here, as it can run without relying on the stable version of Chrome.
So you seize using this version without risking your browser information everyday. Remember to use the 64-bit version, because the process may not work on other platforms.
Start the installation :
You must first unzip the file with the version of Archon you’ve downloaded.
Now you must open Chrome Canary, and in the address bar type the following without quotes: “chrome://extensions/”.
Now go on and activate the developer mode.
Once you do this, you must press the button labeled Load unpacked extension.
Then choose the folder where you have extracted following the first step in this procedure.
To install applications just follow the procedure used to install the extension. You can only use the applications that support Archon.
From here you can view a list of modified applications , that are compatible and observe which ones work properly and which don’t. From the subreddit you can also learn to modify the applications so that they are compatible with Archon.
Common Errors :
By having the application installed, you can observe in the list of extensions for Chrome, the presence of several errors marked in red.
But don’t worry, most of the applications do work in spite of all such alerts. Now, to run the applications you need to simply press the Start button located just below the application’s name. Know that each application runs in a separate window.
Although it is possible that some applications may close instantly. There are some other errors in some applications which can be neglected. [...]
Can’t Use WhatsApp On Your Tablet? Here’s What You Should DoMarch 25, 2025How ToWhatsApp is the currently the most perfect application for instant messaging. No wonder why the number of users using it is tremendously rising each day. Simply, it is one of the most simple and undoubtedly a very effective way of communication.
While this is the case, as all of us know one of the major drawbacks or simply shortcomings with Whatsapp is that users could only run this application on a mobile phone. Something that everyone wished for is the release of the Whatsapp PC version, and adios! it’s here.
Thanks to WhatsApp Web for making this wish a reality recently. Now we can use the most famous messaging client on our computer, something that many users have been waiting for. Plus, it is easy to configure and works quite well.
But here we focus on the tablets, and once again thanks to WhatsApp Web you can use this application even on your tablets. Here’s how it’s done:
Use WhatsApp Web on your tablet also :
If you are using a tablet and you were willing to try WhatsApp in a simple way, this is the ultimate solution. WhatsApp Web opens this possibility by following a few simple steps which are described below.
The first is to have the latest version of WhatsApp on your phone. It is very normal and is available in the play store thanks to Google Play, but if you can’t find it, you can download the apk file version 2.11.498.
The next step is to install Google Chrome on your tablet. We recommend using the latest version, so you must upgrade from Google Play . If you have any problem with updating it, you can download the apk version 40.
That done, now you will have to open Google Chrome on your tablet, and press the menu button and activate the option ‘View as computer’ . This will disable the web pages in mobile format and we can access WhatsApp Web. Otherwise, you will most certainly receive an error message.
Finally, go to the official website of WhatsApp Web. Now open WhatsApp on your phone, press the menu button and click on WhatsApp Web. Now just scan the QR code that appears on the tablet and that’s it you can now use WhatsApp Web even on your tablet. [...]
