IT Business Products : 4 Ways to Back Up Your Laptop

Hard-drive crashes, spilled coffee, and thieves can obliterate the precious data on your laptop. Your best defense is to back it up. External hard drives, DVDs, CDs, or even “the cloud” are great ways to protect your data. Samsung recommends Windows® 8. External Hard Drive: Use an external hard drive, usually connected via USB. Hard […]

Pita Sandwiches Can Now Hack Into Your Laptop

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A pita sandwich could be used to infiltrate your laptop (yes you read, that right, let me explain). The Times of Israel brings our attention to a paper released Tuesday, where researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) describe how cheap parts from Radio Shack can be […]

Laptop Security – Security Tip #8 by Gregory Evans

Gregory Evans the author of Laptop Security Made Short & Simple, gives tips on securing your laptop.  These tips you will not find anywhere else, except on National Cyber Security Radio.   View full post on Cyber Security News From The Real Experts

Public disruption trick laptop tracked down by the security agencies

The police handed down a smartphone and three laptops when they heard some faux shooting at the house. The complaint was made to the Triple 0 website very early in the morning right after the shots fired. A teenager was arrested and he surrendered in front of the police without any resistance. Read More…. For […]

Laptop drops from between a woman’s legs

A 28-year-old Cowdray Park woman’s awkward gait sold her out to an alert security guard when the laptop she had stolen dropped from her skirt as she walked out of a trading store. Mary Kutsanzira’s offence earned her an eight months sentence, half of which was conditionally suspended for five years on her own plea of […]

5 security apps that can help with the recovery of a stolen laptop

Laptops are, of course, a tempting target for thieves – they’re small and worth a lot of money in many cases. Should your notebook end up being stolen, however, if you’ve taken steps to prepare for the eventuality, there may be a possibility of recovering the machine. LoJack and Prey are two security tools that[continue […]

Man held for lifting laptop from rail commuter

  KOZHIKODE: Railway police recorded the arrest of a Maharashtra native on charges of lifting a laptop from a rail passenger. The officials took Lakshman Arjun Pawar, from Ahmed Nagar into custody from Kannur railway station around 9.30 am on Sunday. The laptop was stolen from a passenger, Muhammed Abdu Rahiman, a resident of Tirur in Malappuram, on November 22. Rahiman lost his bag containing laptop and[continue […]

USC: Stolen laptop contained personal info of 6,300 students

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – University of South Carolina officials have begun to warn at least 6,300 hundred students about the potential of their sensitive information being compromised. According to the university, someone stole a laptop from a locked room in the Department of Physics and Astronomy back in April. That laptop included files with the names, […]

Security engineer hides hacking device in laptop power supply to create network backdoor

You gotta love security geeks — they can make it so easy for you. At least, if you’re a black hat hacker. Network security engineer “Richee” posted complete details about how to make a tiny Raspberry Pi computer look like a ordinary laptop power brick, and then give himself a physical backdoor into corporate networks. Technically, the job […]