How To Protect Your Quicken Data from All Your Programs

By now, I hope you’re aware that all of your programs can access your Quicken data. If you don’t care if your data is lost, destroyed, stolen, or published on the Internet, then you don’t have anything to worry about. For the rest of us, it’s an issue that needs to be addressed immediately. Here’s […]

October 6th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Security Sandboxes, How To, Isolation, Quicken, Security | 2 comments

Security Sandboxes and Virtualization

The easiest way to take advantage of the new security sandbox technology is to upgrade your hardware and software. Not everyone can afford to do that. What other options are there if you want a security sandbox? Sandboxing is closely related to virtualization. Virtual computing is a good way to get some of the benefits […]

September 21st, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Security Sandboxes, Virtual Machines, Isolation, Resources, Security | Leave a comment

Security Sandboxes: A Great Reason to Upgrade

The main reason to upgrade is that the newer versions of Windows and Mac OS X implement something called a security sandbox.

Suppose you get hungry, and want a recipe for a sandwich. So, you download some recipe software, install it, download a recipe for a sandwich, and make yourself a sandwich. If you accidentally […]

September 21st, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Security Sandboxes, Software, Isolation, Quicken, Security | Leave a comment

Why Upgrading is a Security Strategy

One way to improve your computer security is to ditch your old computer and buy a new one with new software. Why? Because computer security is like the arms race. Hackers are working to discover new software vulnerabilities all the time. If they find a good one, they may exploit it, or sell it to […]

September 21st, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Security Sandboxes, Software, Isolation, Security | Leave a comment