Lost laptop or mobile phone
To bring laptops and cell phones everywhere is certainly very comfortable,when your dell xps m1210 battery is full. But that also means an increased risk of losing it or being robbed. If your notebook, netbook, mobile phone or other device falls into the wrong hands, unauthorized people can gain access to your personal information.
Encrypt Your Data
You can use programs such as Microsoft BitLocker encrypt your data. Unfortunately, BitLocker is only available for Windows Vista and Windows 7 available, and even there only in the Ultimate and Enterprise version. This tool will search in vain for the standard versions of operating systems.
Fortunately, BitLocker is not the only encryption program. Recommended also is TrueCrypt, which is downloadable for free with open source license. True Crypt allows you as BitLocker to protect your data from unwanted access by using encryption.
The encryption of data, however, has its drawbacks. The main disadvantage is that you always have to have password to hand. If you ever forget your encryption password and / or lose, you will quickly find out how safe your data is now in front of you.
Use secure passwords
If you look for the data encryption is too much work, you should at least use a secure password to protect your PC. Longer passwords are better, since one more time and computational effort it needs to crack. You should also replace certain letters with numbers and special characters. For example, you can instead “PCWeltMagazin” simply use “PCW31tM @ g @ zin. This password is still easy to remember, but it is due to the use of special characters, numbers and capital letters to crack or guess even more difficult.
You should always create a secure password to your PC user account, even if you’re the only person using the computer. However, you should be aware that a secure password to protect against attacks, although the normal way. Experienced hackers have, opportunities to through education and cultivation of certain hardware components such security lock bypass.
Use a BIOS Password
With a BIOS password or a hard disk drive ( or better yet, both) , you can be sure that no one except you can boot the computer. The BIOS is starting to vary from system to system. The apparent first screen when you boot up your computer shows which button you need to go into the BIOS settings. Usually these are the keys Del , Esc or F10.
Once opened you can find in the menu, the security settings. There you can set a password that other users prevents them and your inspiron 1525 battery from booting the PC or to get into the BIOS settings. The option is there from system to system, different names , but is usually called the supervisor password or administrator password . If you wish , you can also set up a hard drive password, which is not denied any access to the disk until the right password was typed .
There are ways to bypass these passwords , but by setting these passwords an additional safety barrier is installed , which will discourage some attackers to gain access to your data.
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