If you purchase anything on the Internet you probably are in the habit of making sure you are using a secure connection from a desktop web browser and you look for the lock button in the browser. Most of popular web sites like Facebook and Gmail also now use HTTPS to secure your communication, but that was not always the case. While it is fairly easy to tell whether a web browser is securing the data you send, it is not as easy to tell with other apps, particularly apps for smartphones and table [...]

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Text messages has, as many millions of frequent user know, earned is place as a high value tool despite its relatively low-tech nature in a world increasingly filled with smartphones and tablets. It works on nearly every phone regardless of how smart, or not, it is. It is so ubiquitess and useful that one company launched a service that speifically targets a perceived need in the K-12 school space.


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According to a blog post by Google, the company is taking steps towards making search more secure for its users. For some of us, we've been redirected to https:// instead...

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Creator of the largest online military heritage community, TogetherWeServed, has activated its next chapter in connecting and honoring U.S. public servants. Available is a secure, feature-rich website for the U.S. state and municipal police community called Police.TogetherWeServed.com (PTWS).


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Heads up, page admins! As of October 1st, Facebook announced that any iFrame page tabs not hosted on a secure server under HTTPS will not be displayed to users browsing under HTTPS. This article will tell you what you need to do. According to Facebook's Cat Lee, "The content will not be accessible for users with [...]

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This guest post is by David Wang of The ClickStarter. Hacktivist groups Lulzsec and Anonymous are on the prowl again. Their actions have generated lots of attention for hacking, and you can be sure that many bored kids and shady characters are interested to start hacking too. What if your blog was the target of [...]

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