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Passwords: 8 Tips for Creating & Using them

Most of internet users underestimate the importance of a password, and usually internet users come-up with weak passwords, easy to guess and consequently subjecting their accounts to be hacked, stolen, exploring sensitive information and sometimes blackmailed!. It’s important to know the password is like the PIN number of your bank account, once the PIN number is stolen the criminal or the malicious users can use your name to open new credit card accounts, draw your money, or apply for an online transaction. The same idea with your password, if it is stolen all your e-mails, contact lists, files…etc will be for misused and public use!. Here are important tips you need to know while creating a password: 1. Make the password lengthy: long passwords provide more protection than short ones. Your password should be 8 or more characters, 14 or more will be the best. 2. Always Combine: it’s highly recommended to use combined characters in your password, the greater variety of charac...

The Phantom of the Delete Button

From time to time people decide that they no longer need to keep a piece of information. For example, your backup copies of a particular file are sufficient, and you want to delete the master, what is the best way to do so? When you delete a file, even after you empty the Recycle bin, the contents of that file remain on your hard drive and can be recovered by anyone who has the right tools and a little luck. From a purely technical perspective, there is no such thing as a delete function on your computer. Of course, you can drag a file to the Recycle Bin and empty the bin, but all this really does is clear the icon, remove the file's name from on your computer, and tell Windows that it can use the space for something else. Until it actually does use that space, the space will be occupied by the contents of the deleted information, much like drawers of files with labels on each drawer, what happens is removing the label but the drawer still contain the files. This is why, i...