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Trojan Horse – An Insight

By on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

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.

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How to disable Startup Programs

By on Sunday, December 26th, 2010 | No Comments

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 [...]

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Tips for keeping your online accounts secure

By on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 | 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) [...]

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Osama & Obama have lost trust in their Blackberry Devices

By on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 | No Comments

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 [...]

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Best password managers for everyday use

By on Monday, April 5th, 2010 | 4 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 [...]

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Knowing the Account Activity in Gmail

By on Thursday, March 25th, 2010 | No Comments

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 [...]

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Phishing Attempt on Twitter

By on Monday, March 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

There is a phishing attempt on Twitter which is spreading via Direct Messages. It tries to get your usernames and passwords using a Direct Message saying “You’re on Here?” or “someone posted on their blog about you” and these messages are followed by a link. Once you click on the links, it might direct you [...]

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