Password Software
Keeping track of all the different user accounts, passwords, security questions and emails associated with them is quite a daring task.
Security - Latest Posts
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Take Back Your Privacy By Disabling Auto Suggest In IE8
The fact that Google Chrome is sending information about anything that the user types into the Google Chrome Omnibox seems to have caused quite a stir on the In
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Hacker Breaks into FEMA Phone System, Makes $12,000 Worth of Calls
I just came across an amusing news excerpt about the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA, which is a part of Homeland Security.
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Freedom Stick Is Better Than Freedom Fries
No, I'm not referring to something called French Fries that has been renamed to Freedom Fries to punish the French for not siding with the US in the country's w
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A New Vulnerability Discovered in μTorrent
As far as file-sharing protocols go, BitTorrent has emerged as one of the leading P2P technologies being used.
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Microsoft August 2008 Security Updates
Microsoft has just released the security patches of the August 2008 Patch Day, a total of eleven updates for various Microsoft operating systems and products th
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Apple Can Remove Apps From iPhones
The public outcry would be loud and ear-deafening if someone would have discovered that Microsoft was able to remove installed applications from a Windows opera
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Customs Proofing A Laptop
I Discovered the article Security guide to customs-proofing your laptop over at Cnet and thought it would be worth sharing it.
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Free A-Squared Anti-Malware
The Giveaway of the Day website is offering some very nice software packages from time to time.
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New Phishing Emails Emerge
The usual phishing email still claims that "action" is required because of something that just happened.
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New Attack: Combine Files With Jar Scripts
A new attack, dubbed Gifar by their creators named after the two file types that they mixed to create the attack (Gif and Jar), was mentioned in a Black Hat Sne
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Check If Your DNS Is Vulnerable
Humans are not good with numbers.
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Male or Female? Your Browser's History Might Tell
A website should not be able to read the the history of websites that a visitor to the site has visited previously in the web browser.
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42 Kilobytes Unzipped Make 4.5 Petabytes
In 2001 reports about Zip Bombs or Zip of Death attacks made the round on the Internet and I thought it would be nice to write about one shiny harmless example
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Skype Backdoor Speculations
The well respected German website Heise Online has fueled speculations about a backdoor that is implemented in the Voice over IP software Skype.
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Protect PayPal Accounts With VeriSign Identity Protection Devices
I had a rather unpleasant experience with PayPal lately where someone transferred all the money from my account.
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Data Can Leak From Partially Encrypted Systems
A bunch of researchers, among them the famous Bruce Schneier, have discovered that features like Recent Documents list may reveal information about files on an
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Gmail Has a Privacy Problem
You might have already read elsewhere that it is possible to reveal the real name of any Gmail user by sharing a calendar in Google Calendar with him.
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Update on my PayPal Story
I noticed in the beginning of July that someone else transferred most of the money that had been in my PayPal account to an online hoster to buy six month acces
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Gmail And Yahoo Mail Users Now Protected Against eBay And PayPal Phishing Mails
The award for the longest title ever could go to this one.
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Overview of Online Virus Scanners
Scanning the computer from an online location provides several advantages over the classic local scan.
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Tracking Gmail Account Usage
Google Mail introduced a new feature recently that can be helpful in finding out if someone else has or had access to your Gmail account.
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True Crypt 6 released
True Crypt is my encryption software of choice and I was very pleased with version 5 which added the option to encrypt the complete operating system and increas
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Gernova Keylock
Gernova Keylock is a specialized software to detect keyloggers on a system.
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Are you running the latest browser version?
In a recently released research paper Stefan Frei, Thomas Dübendorfer, Gunter Ollmann and Martin May analyzed Google Search Engine logs between January 2007
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Unauthorized Payment Done With My PayPal Account
I usually check my emails right after I wake up and received a PayPal email receipt this morning that told me that the amount of $480 was transferred from my ac
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Haute Secure
The Internet can be a dangerous place.
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You better stop using Internet Explorer for now
A security vulnerability came to light recently that affects Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7 and even Internet Explorer 8 that can be exploited to reco
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British Telecom Phorm report leaked
An internal British Telecom document was released two days ago on the Wikileak website that provides the results of British Telecom's validation of Phorm, also
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Disable Automatic Virus Scanning in Firefox
Firefox 3 is making use of the installed virus scanner on Windows to scan downloads automatically after they have been fully downloaded to the system.
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New Information about latest Flash Vulnerability
A report about a new Flash vulnerability that affected the latest two versions of Adobe Flash was spreading like fire on the Internet yesterday.
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Use Netflix Watch Now on more than 3 PCs
Each Netflix subscription gives users access to a small movie library that can be accessed instantly from up to three PCs.
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Read 20 Digital Magazines for Free
Apple Iphone owners get more.
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Encrypt your instant messages with Pidgin
Pidgin is an Open Source multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that was formerly known as Prince Gaim.
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AntiPhorm Software
One form of data mining is behavioral targeting which means that ads are served that fit into the surfing pattern of a user.
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Select a country for your proxy
Finally an innovative proxy website.
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Spy Tech: I see what you write
Two new techniques to spy on computer users have been revealed these days by two independent scientific studies conducted at the University of California, Santa
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Protect your data when travelling to the US
I personally think this is outrageous.
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Microsoft Security Updates May 2008
Microsoft released four security updates for various applications and operating systems that they produce.
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Another Antivir free premium promotion
Polymath send in the tip that another Antivir promotion is available that gives users access to Antivir premium for 180 days free of charge.
