11 de jun. de 2007

Softwares facilitates to management and storage of passwords

Who shoots the first rock never forgot some its thousand of passwords for access the sites, banks and another infinity of services online. You already it stopped to think how many private codes you types every day when is in front of the computer?

To keep them all in the head is difficult task even though for that it has the excellent memory. Unless you it has opted to the same using name of user and password for all the services online, the exit normally is in glue pieces of paper in return of the monitor, lost notations in old notebooks and blocks or untied papers in drawers or, in the best one of the hypotheses, handheld.

In none of these cases, however, the passwords, that would have to guarantee the security of its data in fact well-are kept.

The manufacturers affirm that the data stored there are criptografados. But this does not want to say much thing, since the navigator obtains to descriptografar these information without asking for any confirmation of that who is you yourselves is in front of the machine.

Of this form, it would not be nothing extraordinary to admit that a virus or malicious code installed in its PC inadvertently could also make it.

Source: Uol

9 de jun. de 2007

Parents of adolescents turn “virtual spies”, say study

According to research, to keep a control on the virtual activities of the children, 41% of the parents admit sigilosamente to verify the sites sailed for the children and 25% of them confer e-mails without the children know.

This type of private monitoramento is one of the consequences of the increase of the concern with possible “private lives” online.

The research lead for Sonia Livingstone, teacher of social sociology of the LSE, sample also that children use to advantage the chances that the Internet presents “to play with the identity, relationships, exploration and communication”.