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6 Ways To Protect Your Data From Hackers - 2016 (Updated)

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6 Ways To Protect Your Data From Hackers - 2016 (Updated) The year 2016, is turning out to be the year of data breaches. Hackers have become particularly active and just today, we are hearing about two big data breaches: Millions of Gmail IDs and password almost went on sale and there is a suspect data breach in the IRCTC website that is used by crores of Indians. With hackers on the march, how can you be safe? If you think who would want to hack my account and steal my data, you couldn't be more wrong. According to a recent report, a hacker was sitting over 272 million email accounts and passwords, and he was ready to trade them, wait, not for money, but just for a good name in hacker forums. Any inconspicuous user could be a target. You as well. Unfortunately, most people keep only one password for different accounts, for example, same password for Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, or even online banking. Even a simple brute force attack can reve...

12 Simple Steps To Become A Hacker

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12 Simple Steps To Become A Hacker Hacking  is an engaging field but it is surely not easy. To become a hacker one has to have an attitude and curiosity of learning and adapting new skills. You must have a deep knowledge of computer systems, programming languages, operating systems and the journey of learning goes on and on. Some people think that a hacker is always a criminal and do illegal activities but they are wrong. Actually many big companies hire hackers to protect their systems and information and are highly paid. We have prepared a list of 12 most important steps necessary to become a  hacker , have a deeper look 1. Learn UNIX/LINUX UNIX/LINUX is an open source operating system which provides better security to computer systems. It was first developed by AT&T in Bell labs and contributed a lot in the world of security. You should install LINUX freely available open source versions on your desktops as without learning UNIX/LINUX, it is not possib...