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Gmail Security Settings Checklist for Secure Login

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Whether you are new Gmail User or not, one thing is true that you don’t like to lose your privacy or don’t want to your email security be compromised by any third party or by your business competitors. For making sure that your Gmail account is fully secure and no one is snooping your private emails, you need to follow several steps which are also recommended by Gmail Security team.

Computer Security

  1. Make sure your computer has anti-virus or Internet security software installed and updated including the virus databases, spam protection tools etc.
  2. Check if your operating system has been updated with the latest release of the software provider. If you are a Windows user, then click on “My Computer”, then right click on it and select the “properties” and then click on “Windows Update”.
  3. You might be using Adobe, Windows Office, and Java. Make sure all these softwares are updated online on regular basis.

Browser Security

  1. Regularly update your browser. Check for updates at least once in a month. For example if you are a Firefox user, then click on the help menu on your browser and then click on “check for updates…)
  2. Avoid downloading Browser extensions and plugins. These  extension  softwares are basically third party software which give some extra functionality to your browser. For instance, many use email alert extension in browser. There is no guarantee that these extension codes do not have any hidden code that might compromise your browser security.            [Read more…] about Gmail Security Settings Checklist for Secure Login

Computer Security Essentials

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The major threats a computer user may expect are – the damage of his stored data or software and stealing of confidential information. A computer can get infected with malicious programs like virus, Trojan, crimeware, spyware, malware or anything else, but the main challenge in front of you is to keep your all the data safe and also to keep your confidential information private while you are online. Before you going online, have you ever thought that your every keystrokes is being tracked by a small code hidden in your laptop or your every online transaction with credit card are being screen shots by a spy software and sending all those confidential data to a cyber criminal sitting back miles away from your town. A malicious code even open a secret door (backdoor) to a rouge person to enter your computer when you go online. As you know that, every disease has its treatment, the same way every malicious code can be identified and tracked before it because any damage to your computer and it can only be done once you have Internet security or at least an updated antivirus solution.

Therefore, a computer user need to be concerned with safety and privacy of all his logical assents-software, database, emails, operations system. In addition, the good news is an average user can be quite efficient in keeping his computing environment safe and sound, if he follow a few guidelines and maintains a few instructions on regular basis. The following are very important steps that you may follow on regular basis and can ensure a great level of computer safety.

  • Use Internet security solutions or at least keep good antivirus software
  • Always keep updated your antivirus and Internet security software. Though this sounds like a very ordinary task, yet it is one of the most important tasks that many forget to do regularly. It is advisable to keep your antivirus software in auto-update mode.
  • Keep your operating system updated. For example if you are Windows user then , right click on “My Computer”, select “properties” and then select “Automatic Updates” tab, click on “Automatic and then click on the “apply button”    [Read more…] about Computer Security Essentials

Screening Router Security Test

Much small-scale business does not use firewall as their first line of defense any web attacks to their internal network. Instead, they use a router between the Internet and Internal network to control incoming and outgoing traffic flow- this type of use of router is known as screening router. In fact, configuring ACLs inside a router can be a viable and effective solution to deny any incoming malicious packets to your LAN. If you have to test one such type of network router that is used a screening router, then you have to identify the type of router and its features. List all the ACL policy and the types of data packets that are permitted to enter your network. What are the router responses to various types of incoming traffic? Finally list all the live systems The following are the list of activity the you have to perform to test a screening router

1. Identify router type

2. List NAT, if there is any

3. Use TTL setting test by using port scanning

4. Test all the ACLs in the router

5. Verify if the address spoofing is being detected by the router

6. Test inverse scanning

7. If the router is filtering local traffic(egress filtering)

8. How the router is handling small size packets

9. How over-sized packets are being handled in the router

10. How router responding to overlapped packets. Normally overlapped fragments are used in TEARDROP attack.