PayPal is a widely used financial service that allows people from all over the world to transfer money to other PayPal users by simply specifying an email address the money should be send to. It has become even more popular in recent years with the eBay tie-in which practically made PayPal the preferred payment method for many eBay users. A financial service that popular is a priority target for worms, phishing attacks, trojans and other kinds of attacks that try to steal PayPal login information in order to transfer money from the PayPal account to another one.

PayPal recently began to sell a so called PayPal Security Key to protect PayPal users from phishing attacks. The system works by protecting the login to the account not only with a username and password but also a security key that is generated on the fly on an external device. Attackers who are able to steal PayPal login information would need physical access to the security key to be able to log into the account at a later time.

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Tags: paypal, paypal login, paypal login page, paypal security, paypal security key
Categories: Security

Do you use Google for your collaboration tools? Gmail? Google Documents? Contacts? Although the Google suite is a very nice suite of tools that has grown exponentially in popularity, there is something to be said about keeping your collaboration tools in-house. There are plenty of tools that will allow you to set up such a collaboration suite. Some of these tools are costly, some of them are overly-complex to use or install, and some of them just don’t offer all of the tools you need.

And then there’s OpenGoo. OpenGoo is an open source collaboration tool that is fully web-based, easy to use, simple to install, and free to use. But is OpenGoo for you and your company? This tutorial will show you how to get an OpenGoo installation up and running so you can kick the tires and find out if it is exactly what you need.

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Tags: collaboration, google documents, mobile office, office suite, online office
Categories: Linux, Online Services, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development, software

After dabbling around with several music players in Windows 7 I finally decided to stick with AIMP2. The uninstallation of Winamp turned out to be interesting. The uninstaller noted that not all files in the Winamp folder could be deleted during installation. A quick check revealed that the folder contained the files elevator.exe, elevatorps.dll and nscrt.dll. A simple try to delete those files in the same Windows session turned out to be unsuccessful which led to the initial thought that this could be some kind of successful malware attack on my system which turned out not to be the case.

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Tags: elevator.exe, elevatorps.dll, nscrt.dll, uac, winamp, winamp elevation, winamp uac
Categories: Security

Offering a popular website or web service is not always a blessing. This especially becomes apparent when you have to deal with security related issues like phishing attacks. Facebook is without doubt one of the most popular sites on the Internet these days and it therefor comes unsurprisingly that the service is regularly attacked.

Trend Micro are reporting about yet another Facebook phishing attack that is currently in the wild. The attack begins – like most phishing attacks – by mass mailing potential Facebook users informing them that they need to update their Facebook login credentials. A link is offered in that email and if they follow that link they land on a website that looks like Facebook. What’s interesting here is that the email address field of the Facebook login form is already filled out so that the Facebook user only needs to enter the Facebook password to complete the process.

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Tags: facebook, facebook login, facebook login page, facebook phishing, facebook security, phishing
Categories: Security, The Web

There are two main reasons for switching to one of Google’s alternative search interfaces: Speed and Usability. The following three Google search engines utilize the same search index and parameters that the default Google search engine offers with the difference that all four of them are faster, more accessible and less obtrusive when displaying search results. One of the major points of criticism lately has been the additional elements that the standard Google search engine displays on the search results pages. This includes advertisement, sponsored listings, Google Maps, Google News or Youtube results thrown into the mix, something that many search engine users feel completely unnecessary.

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Tags: Google, google ie, google sandbox, google search, google search engine, google xhtml
Categories: Google, Search Engines

Experienced computer users have a specific routine that they go through whenever they install a new operating system. This includes playing around with the default configuration of the operating system but also installing a set of applications that they consider essential. The following article will take a look at ten applications to install after installing Windows 7. A fair warning though; This is obviously a biased list and what we call essential might be the exact opposite for the user next door. So, this is our list and it will, without doubt, differ from many of the lists that you would create.

All programs that are listed below are fully compatible with the Windows 7 operating system.

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Tags: windows 7, windows 7 applications, windows 7 software, windows software
Categories: Windows, software

How many times have you installed a LAMP server only to find Apache doesn’t seem to want to run right? Or you install a new module only to see Apache try to download pages as file, instead of displaying them on screen?

There are a hundred and one thousand things that can go wrong with any web server installation. From a fresh installation to an installation that has been running for a long time, you never know when something is going to cause your web server to go astray. When it does happen, it’s always nice to know that, usually, Occam’s Razor applies.

In this tutorial you will find some advice that will help you through some of the more common issues that can pop up with an Apache web server.

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Tags: apache, apache log, apache2, apache2ctl, log files, php
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development