Need a proxy for surfing anonymously? Need email privacy?
How about a free firewall?

Here are a bunch of free security tools you can use.

The Internet is full of legitamate free tools created by people who don’t care about making money or make money with donations and endorsements. Majorgeeks is my favorite place to get anti malware, anti spam, anti spyware tools. You don’t want to go to just ANY site and start downloading software. Not all sites can be trusted. One of the main ways that malicious hackers get in your system is by putting out free stuff loaded with malware. Malware can be put in pictures, music, movies, and of course software.

Make sure you only download from trusted locations.

“The Phishermen love to use government agencies to lure victims into their web of deceit.
The FBI, IRS, Interpol and now the FDIC – who will they use next?”

Here is the FDIC alert:

The FDIC is aware of a phishing e-mail that has the appearance of being sent from the FDIC. The name “Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation” appears on the “From” line and the subject is, “IMPORTANT: Notification of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.”

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A massive cyberprotest by hackers from Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, Germany, Dominican Republic, Peru, Spain, Venezuela and for the first time ever by Cuban hackers (YES!!! CUBAN HACKERS!!!) against the United Nations resolution for Lebanon is taking place and according to reports, it has taken a lot of high-profile victims (UN,Sony,Gov sites)

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“The Chinese government has announced plans to police web forums, chat rooms and blogs alongside other websites. Websites in China have long been required to be officially registered. The authorities are now determined that blogs should also be brought under state control.”

There are 3 billion Chinese. Even if only 150,000,000 (1/2 the population of the U.S.) have blogs each of them could make more than one blog. They must be using fear to control the people because that seems like the only way they could really control the freedom of ideas on the Internet.

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Here are five essential tools for securing Firefox by disabling JavaScript and Flash, sniffing out suspicious sites, foiling phishing, preventing peeks at private data, and preparing powerful passwords.

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