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Stealing Passwords And Other Juicy Googlebits |
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By now we all know of Google's dominance in the search industry. Although Yahoo and Microsoft remain competitors, neither one of their search engines are as mature as Google's. And beyond the "big three", you're hard pressed to find any search engine worth using anymore. GYM (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft) have all but eliminated the smaller players in search--including former giants like Altavista, Lycos, and Excite. |
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Protecting Your Windows Computer |
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Recent newsmaker stories regarding Microsoft Windows security highlighted the recurring theme that there are "care and feeding" issues related to using computers in the dynamic, connected world of the Internet. Just days ago this month, computer users of home PCs, businesses, and mobile laptop users were affected. In this case, the issue was an animated cursor (typically, an ".ANI" file) exploit, which abused a Windows feature, and therefore created the issue. |
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Web and Database Port List |
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This is a list of common ports used in database and other network applications. |
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Security in Internet Social Engineering: Alternate View |
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Today every user who has Internet access runs a risk of being attacked or private data disclosure, and depending of his Internet usage pattern, many and many users will become either bot-net part for spammers, or will be attacked by trojans and worms. And unfortunately most of these risks and damages are satellites for everyone. Sure, we are armed with many solutions: spyware and rootkit cleaners, anti-viral software, many protectors and firewalls... but often it cannot help and viral software starts to carry out its destructive mission on your computer. |
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Protecting Your Laptop with 12 Simple Laptop Security Steps |
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While computer operating systems today are much more secure than just two years ago, there is still some user management necessary. These operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows XP are becoming more and more "user friendly" from a security standpoint. Many potential security problems are locked down by default and the user generally does not need to be concerned with implementing them. |
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Computer Security Ethics and Privacy |
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Today, many people rely on computers to do homework, work, and create or store useful information. Therefore, it is important for the information on the computer to be stored and kept properly. It is also extremely important for people on computers to protect their computer from data loss, misuse, and abuse. For example, it is crucial for businesses to keep information they have secure so that hackers can't access the information. Home users also need to take means to make sure that their credit card numbers are secure when they are participating in online transactions. |
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A Guide to Computer Security |
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As the number of people connecting to the Internet continues to increase at a rapid pace, more and more of us are now creating our own home computer networks. With these we can enjoy the benefits of having high bandwidth, instant access to the Internet and make this connection available to multiple computers in and around the home. |
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Sniff out publicly-viewable webcams using google |
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From INQ7 Infotech, a blog exposes unsecured 'online' webcams in a simple search query on Google will direct you to a viewable online cameras or webcams. The online cameras or webcams are product of the Axis Commnications where camera have the option to remotely view streaming videos. This devices are use for monitoring homes, business, etc. |
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Computers always malfunction at the worst times, a great deal of money, stress and time being spent looking for a remedy. Briefly discussed here is a look at data recovery of hard drives, an example of a program that can perform this function being stated later. |
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E-Gold security - how you can do it better and safer |
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Today I thought I shall share with you guys how to safely protect your E-Gold account as what I've been doing. Some of you may have known these steps but I thought I should recap a bit. This is a very common topic but nowadays I still come across many cases of e-gold being hacked stories. It feels worse than being rejected in love. :) |
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The day was October 29, The Year! 1969, The Place! UCLA, when the first node of the ARPANET went live, the eve network of today’s Internet. The Internet was BORN, still in its infancy it didn’t do much, well actually it did, but at that time it was only used by the government agencies. This was the Internet, not very special then, but in this time the internet the best thing to hit the world, it connects your from one end of the world to the other end in matter of seconds, it’s a world wide phenomenon, the most powerful communications tool, and has evolved more and more advanced over the decades, but 20 years later RTM would launch a simple worm that would bring it down to it’s Knees. |
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Your Complete Guide to Shopping Online Safely |
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In recent years there has been a huge boom in the amount of people shopping online. You can buy almost everything you need off the internet from your home groceries to the latest CDS and DVDs, as well as a hole host of hard to find items. Online shopping offers convenience in that you do not need to leave your home or office and that items are delivered directly to your door. |
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About two years ago, SANS Handler's Diary reported that Windows DNS server is vulnerable to the cache poisoning attack despite "Secure cache against pollution" setting if it is configured to forward requests to the forwarder DNS server [1][2]. |
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Online Security and Identity Theft 101 |
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Internet security, identity theft and fraud have become major issues recently as more people globally obtain access to the Internet. With the decrease in barriers to entry, i.e. lower webhosting costs, widespread highspeed and wireless Internet access, and website contruction software that truly enables anyone to create a website, the online players and number of new websites are increasing exponentially. With this increase comes a flood of new websites from countries around the world with various languages and business and regulatory environments. |
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Identity Theft Prevention Tactics: Proactive Tips For A Safer Identity |
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This whole identity theft thing gives you the creeps, right? You're not only infuriated by, but terrified of the thought of somebody sifting through your trash, brazenly stealing your mail, or hijacking your wallet not for your money so much as your social security number. You may even feel helpless. |
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