Trojans! Virus! Worms! Well all of them are roaming around in the network to find their prey. Learn more about the Trojan in brief in this article. This article talks about what a trojan is, how it works and what you can do to protect yourself.
How to disable Startup Programs
December 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What are Startup programs Startup Programs are the programs that automatically starts up when you turn on your computer. Some of the start up programs are very important for the computer to function and hence it should be loaded at startup. But there are other programs which load some of the their components at start [...]
Tips for keeping your online accounts secure
November 16, 2010 By 3 Comments
The usual stuff for protecting your password Change your passwords regularly, at least twice in a year. Never share your password with anyone. If you have shared your password with anyone, then change your password at the earliest. Make sure that your password is a combination of numbers, characters (both capital letter/uppercase and lowercase/small letters) [...]
Osama & Obama have lost trust in their Blackberry Devices
September 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As mentioned in my previous article, Blackberry Messenger uses the same encryption key on all devices. This would mean that if one could intercept the PIN message sent to another device it could be decrypted and read. RIM does give its customers an option to replace the default encryption key on the devices with a [...]
Best password managers for everyday use
April 5, 2010 By 3 Comments
Passwords are the first line defense in protecting the identity in the computing world. To ensure the protection of the online identity, it is important to protect the passwords of your online access. Be it your email account or your job site password, the protection of these passwords are very important. The typical weaknesses of [...]
Knowing the Account Activity in Gmail
March 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Google has lauched a new feature in Gmail which provides information about the last activity on a mail account. It is visible at the bottom of the Gmail page. Click on the Details Link and a pop up appears which lists the details of the last account activities in Gmail. It helps us to be [...]
Watch out for Kneber Trojan botnet
February 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A US-based NetWitness, a real-time network forensics firm, announced that Kneber botnet had captured almost 75000 personal computers in 2,500 organizations and governement agencies. The Logins and Passwords of sites like Hotmail, Yahoo and many other accounts including online banking websites and corporate servers which is used for storing confidetial data, were captured by the [...]
TCS website restored
February 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, (TCS), India’s largest software company, has restored its website tcs.com after hackers allegedly changed its IP address in the DNS records and put it up for sale. The original TCS.com have the IP address 216.15.200.140. The french hacker has changed the IP address to 205.178.152.154. This is done by changing the [...]
TCS website was hacked
February 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The website TCS.com which belongs to India’s largest software vendor, Tata Consultancy Services, was hacked today by a French hacker. This hack will definitely lead to total embarrassment for the software firm who thrives on creating software and security systems day in and day out. The homepage says: This domaine name is for sale. Please [...]
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