Category: "Security"

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  • Twitter hacked; user information of 250k accounts stolen – company immediately reacted to remedy

    The hack comes just amid the news of an extensive online security breach in United States affecting media companies like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Twitter acknowledged the recent hack to its systems live and immediately closed down the hacking activity, and had reset passwords of the affected users – but considerably 250,000... 

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  • Security Tips for WordPress Bloggers

    Arjun is a security expert and likes to research and explore more about it, he also works for ivpn.net who are known to provide the best VPN service. Blogger is the most used platform by bloggers, followed by WordPress. But when it comes to professional blogging, WordPress is always the choice because of its versatility. WordPress can be tweaked... 

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  • Malicious Android apps to be “Remote Kill” by Google

    Google quickly responded to the recent security hole of Android, and they’ve made an Android Market Security update that will be installed to your Android device, remotely and remove the malicious apps from your device, from Market as well. Recently, malicious apps from Android Market were found and reported by a Reddit user Lampolo and AndroidPolice.com.... 

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  • Google now has Google Apps’ 2-step-verification for all Google users

    So finally, Gmail’s now more secure than any other free e-mail services. The 2-step verification to sign-in to a Google account is damn challenging to hackers. The feature’s rolling out to all Gmail users. You would see an option “Using 2-step verification” on your Account Settings page, and then you can configure it. It may... 

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  • Intex releases a PC security suite “Intex Safe Surf Antivirus 2011″

    Intex Technologies, which is know for making computer peripherals and cheap mobile phones, have now stepped in computer security solution releasing an antivirus software. They have collaborated with PC Tools to roll out their own software product, the “Intex Safe Surf Antivirus 2011.” This security suite is packed up with an antivirus and... 

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  • Google Bangladesh “OwN3D by TiGER-M@TE”

    It seem’s Google Bangladesh suffered from a DNS Hijack today, showing a.. weird hipster page playing a hiphop song, claiming that Google Bangladesh got “OwN3D by TiGER-M@TE.” Well, we did some research on this – the awesomeness of a tracert command tells us that “www.google.com.bd” works fine connecting to Google,... 

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  • PR: D-Link introduces cost-effective office network solution for small and medium businesses

    D-Link Unified Service Router offers multiple features set for SMB networks Mumbai, November 15, 2010:– D-Link today introduced a new services router that address all essential office network services needs of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in a single box. The Unified Service Routers D-Link DSR-1000N is a full-featured solution that offers comprehensive... 

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  • Chinese Smartphones Attacked By Zombies! Wait, what?!

    Viruses are not really new to cellphones. There have been a lot of news about cellphones being infected from viruses and users being spied or spammed. Having a smartphone has a downside – they are easier to hack. And it looks like China has been hit by a new virus, the Zombie Virus (insert evil laugh.) So this evil virus was disguised as an... 

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  • Get Genuine Kaspersky Internet Security for free, for limited period

    Yes, you read that right. For those who don’t know, Kaspersky is another one of those antiviruses and security suites at present and is slightly more trusted. So now coming back to point following are the steps by which you can get Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) 2011 absolutely free for a year. Go to the Kaspersky Promo Page (translated... 

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  • Google: How Google Collected Passwords using Street View Cars

    Besides their search engine Google Maps, and thus Street View, is one of Google‘s most used applications. Street View allows the user to ‘walk a street’ from their PC using photos of these streets. To capture these images, Google uses special cars, the Street View Cars, which take 360º photos of the streets they drive through. However,... 

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  • Google Street View cars captured e-mails, passwords – Big G admits

    The wireless activities of Google Street View cars accidentally captured e-mails, passwords, entire URL of people surfing web, through their residential wireless network. So, whereever these cars roam, e-mails and passwords were collected. Google first said, in May, commited actually, that their software (for street view) had codes that were collecting... 

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  • Now Norton for Android, iPhone and iPad

    So, Symantec now provides complete solution for mobile security, extending from Symbian and Windows Mobile, to Android, iPhone, iPad. Symantec mobile solutions, branded with Norton are available at Android Market for Android, and App Store for iOS. These solutions can help finding lost devices, and scan up for threats. “Symantec’s mission is to... 

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  • 4 Free ways to protect your PC!

    Here we are living in a dangerous cyber world with no guarantee for privacy, there are many commercial applications available to protect your system from threats. But everyone can’t afford to buy them, so they go (ahem..) pirating! So here we’ll show you some free and easy ways to protect your PC. 1. Free Antivirus For anti virus two programs... 

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  • Norton 360 v5.0 beta now available for download

    Symantec gives out the press release to media, about the availability of Nortan 360 v5.0 public beta. What’s new? Check it out. The 5.0 beta features a new user interface, with more functionality. The package includes Download Insight 2.0, a useful thing to help you out avoiding malware downloads. There’s also an inclusion of SONAR 3 which... 

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  • Android hacked, a security team warns manufacturers

    A tool was released on Friday at Defcon hacker’s conference in Las Vegas. The tool could hack an Android device for accessing e-mails and text messages. Nicholas Percoco, head of Spider Labs and his colleague introduced the tool, in order to warn manufacturers (OEMs) and Google, that Android is hackable, and some fixes are needed. Percoco said... 

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  • Microsoft releases beta for next Microsoft Security Essentials

    Microsoft Software Essentials BETA Yesterday Microsoft announced a new beta version of its free anti-virus/malware/spyware software – Microsoft Security Essentials, while there is no major interface improvements, there are some major improvements over the previous version, see below for the changelog. Windows Firewall integration – During setup,... 

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  • Norton Power Eraser – Eliminates Spyware and Crimeware

    The obsession of always having a perfect PC, free from viruses and protected with a good anti-virus security prompts the user but, unfortunately, has its limits and can not last forever. We have seen several times in different places specially dedicated to help you use specific programs to remove malware , viruses and spyware from your PC using... 

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