Ultimate online security explained

You are probably here because you are concerned about the security and privacy of your online presence. You maybe shocked to know that major search engines and social networks like Google,Yahoo, Bing and Facebook keeps track of what you search and which other websites you visit. In this article I am briefing about password security, email encryption and online privacy.

Make the wild internet safe for children.

Internet is a wild place indeed. It's wise to close all the paths to the wrong dens and caves, for the protection of our children. Then again some people may call this censorship, while the reality is quite the opposite. For those people arguing about censorship I like to say that there are ethical standards in every culture, tribe and community. For example would you call it censorship because we are wearing clothes?

Setting Up Filtering.
There is absolutely no need to buy and install parental control software, unless you specifically need to record and monitor what your kids or employees are up to. The solution to closing all the caves and dens you need to sign u for a FREE account at openDNS. They have a very user friendly documentation to setup their service.

For geeks it would suffice to say that you only need to configure your router / PC to use the following DNS servers.

Primary:               208.67.222.222
Alternate DNS:    208.67.220.220

You may also neet to filter all DNS traffic by using a firewall rule. For Dynamic IP addresses a light  weight tool is provided by openDNS to update your openDNS account with your currrent IP address which is needed by the openDNS server in order to apply the filters you specified in your account. By using openDNS you can filter access to all illegal websites.

 I did write about web filtering a while ago, but I thought I should refresh the article.

Go ahead and give it a try.

Emergency data destruction

Do you remember the leaked pictures and documents from a Maldivian Minister's Computer? Are you planning to sell your PC? Even if you formatted your hard disk, your data is still there. Anybody with the right tools can recover your data easily. All your photos, personal documents may appear on social networking sites the next day.

Another Scenario
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You are an activist, secretly working to topple an autocratic government, and one day somebody knocks your door. You find out that they are from the secret service. And you have tons of information on your computer which they can use against you. What do you do?

So what's the solution. The easiest and best solution is to remove the hard drive and keep it somewhere safe. What if you need to destroy the data on the hard disk? Well, fortunately generous programmers have developed applications which wipe out the data completely from your storage device..

Darik's Boot And Nuke securely wipes data completely.. Its an ISO file which your can burn on to a CD or DVD, and all you need is to boot the Computer with the CD/DVD.

Download: Darik's Boot And Nuke

If you need to destroy individual files on your hard disk without completely destroying all the data then check out Eraser

Dare to forget your passwords except one?

Are you having trouble remembering your passwords for numerous web services you use? Are you afraid to login to your accounts from public computers, or are you just lazy and don't care to remember all the passwords? Remember, whatever solution you use you will need to remember at least one good password. This password will allow you access to all other passwords.

There are many password applications available for free, but who wouldn't love to login to a website and login to all his other web services from that website.

Some of the most popular windows password management program is Keypass. If you are interested get it here: http://keepass.info/

Passpack is a free online password management service which allows you to login to other web services without ever entering the password for that website. You only need a one time configuration by entering the username and password for the particular website.

Clipperz is another online password management service which is similar to passpack (which is also a great service). Just enter the password and username for your online accounts and configure them using a bookmarklet available on their site.

Find out how to setup and configure your accounts by viewing the screen cast.



Enjoy!