Navigate Facebook’s new privacy paradigm

Once again, Facebook has changed its privacy settings. Like the last time this happened, today’s improvements are still a mixed bag, but a better one: they are generally easier to use but not as simple as they could be.

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Navigate Facebook’s new privacy paradigm

Mozy online backup gets faster and goes local

EMC’s Mozy online backup service just got a lot more compelling–because it’s not just online anymore. Version 2.0 of the cloud backup service, released late Monday, adds a very useful option to store your data on an external hard drive, too

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Mozy online backup gets faster and goes local

Free programs find and remove duplicate files

It doesn’t take long for a computer to collect duplicate copies of all sorts of files. When my year-old laptop started running low on disk space, I knew one of the fastest ways to recover some lost hard-disk storage was to give the machine’s duplicate files the boot

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Free programs find and remove duplicate files

How a browser extension leaks Google history to Amazon

A strange and scary incident while I was researching a story this week has led me to reconsider my recommendation of the Invisible Hand browser extension . This issue also serves to remind us that there are online privacy issues we all face from sites other than Facebook . As the video in this post shows, when I was looking up information on a product on Google , I found shortly afterward that Amazon knew about my Google search and put the product I was looking at in my “Recently Viewed” slot when I loaded up the retail site.

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How a browser extension leaks Google history to Amazon

Anti-fraud tips and tools for tax season

This screenshot shows a tax season phishing e-mail that looks like it comes from the IRS but which leads to a site with data-stealing malware. (Credit: Proofpoint ) As April 15 approaches, U.S. citizens preparing to file their taxes are susceptible to online scams designed to steal their personal information and, ultimately, their money

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Anti-fraud tips and tools for tax season

Process Explorer updates advanced features

Stalwart freeware Windows utility Process Explorer adds several advanced features in its most recent update. Version 12 expands on the must-have set of tools that previous versions have provided, making the lightweight tool even more useful. Process Explorer 12 can identify which Internet Explorer processes are associated with which open tabs

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Process Explorer updates advanced features

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