Sunday, February 12, 2023

File Storage Options

Storing files in our computers are important when it comes to saving any information on our computers. There are three common storage devices available to us, my personal favorite is the flash drive but I'm familiar with this storage style. The other two are a hard disk drive and optical drive. A hard disk drive is a long-term storage drive which in fact is the most commonly used and comes installed in your computer. The perks of a hard disk drive are the amount of information it can hold, it's affordable, and its fast. Last but not least is the optical drive which uses microscopic light and dark spots to store data. The information may be stored on a CD-ROM, DVD, and Blue-ray. What's your preferred file storage?

Sunday, February 5, 2023

Fraud or Not

No one wants to become a victim of identity fraud we all work very hard to make our incomes to provide not only for ourselves but many of us provide for our families. Thankfully encryption has our backs when we can't always watch it. Encryption protects our information by making it our information unreadable to potential threats. Authentication protects us by giving us extra security when accessing an account. For example, when I log in to my Target credit card account it asks me for additional proof of my identity by giving me the option to either email or text me a code to verify it's me.