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Don’t sleep on laptop security, safeguard your data

Reported by helpnetsecurity.com

For many of us, shutting our laptops after a tough day in the office is a satisfying feeling that signals the end of work until tomorrow. But what we don’t realise is that simply shutting the lid and putting the laptop into sleep mode can leave it much more vulnerable to cyber-attacks than we might think. This is because sleep mode (S3) on most laptops is little more than a low power mode designed to save battery life.

Read the full article at helpnetsecurity.com