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Facebook and German Data Protection Commissioner Go Head to Head

Aug

2012

Facebook is one of those social networks that continues to gain an ever-growing ambivalence by users and officials more and more lately. Many took issue with the Timeline update that still continues to affect users to this day that did not want it in the first place. There are also continuing security worries when it ...

How to design a secure website

Aug

2012

With the increasingly digital lifestyle much of the world leads, websites and other digital spaces are quickly becoming a precious commodity. Much like physical assets, these digital assets require proper security to keep both the owners and users safe. In an era of increased cyber-attacks and security breaches, one wrong move is all it takes ...

Top 3 Security Apps for iPhone

Aug

2012

Did you know that your iPhone is just as vulnerable to phishing and malware attacks as your home computer? The one difference is that you probably have anti-virus software installed on your computer to protect it from unauthorized access or suspicious activity. Given how much information we have on our smartphones, from all of ...

Study:Chrome is the most secured browser, followed by Internet Explorer and FireFox

Dec

2011

A study carried by the researchers of security firm Accuvant found that Google Chrome is the offer’s the greatest protection against the online attacks. The result was evaluated on parameters like exploit mitigations, malicious link detection, and other safety features offered in Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox. The interesting aspect of the study is that ...

Phishing: You will never want to be a fish 1

Nov

2011

The term Phishing comes from the analogy to “fishing”. The phisher uses a bait to lure victims into giving out personal information like passwords and credit card numbers. The bait is typically an urgent plea from one of the victims friends or trusted websites, asking for information to resolve some sort of problem with their ...

How to find out the IP Location of an Email

Nov

2011

At times you must have felt the need to find out the IP location of a particular email you received. Or maybe you were just plain curious. Or there was a suspicious mail saying you have won lakhs of pounds in lottery. Earlier, only professionals could track the IP location of an email. But not anymore. Now ...

Windows 8 : Secure your USB Drive with BitLocker 1

Nov

2011

Well In our daily life we all are using USB drives to share data with others. With the huge increase in the use of very small, large capacity, USB drives, the potential for sensitive data to be lost or stolen has really become more of a problem. Many times we use USB drive to share ...

Recovering/Cracking Windows password. 5

Oct

2011

Windows’ password based Login method is secure enough to keep Home and low level user based accounts safe and untouched. But every system has a loophole. Though security tightens with every new version of Windows, the text-based password Log-in is based upon basic, though effective-usually encryption system. So, if you don’t rely upon not-so-effective Face ...