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Showing posts with label Security. Show all posts

Thursday, May 05, 2011

How to see your saved passwords...?

Sorry friends... Couldn't post anything for quite some time... I was home, It was my prep leave..., Xamz approaching..., don't know if I'll be able to post that frequently this month... :( ;( Anyways here is a quick post for you till then....


Many times when we join new sites it becomes difficult to remember passwords for all of them.... So instead we save our passwords... But my dear friends..., when you save these passwords have you ever thought that they can also be reviled...

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

How to Write-Protect USB Flash Drive


USB Write ProtectMany a time, it becomes necessary for us to write protect our USB flash drive so as to protect it from viruses and other malware programs. Because flash drives are so popular and most widely used to move data between computers, they are the prime target for attackers as a means to get infections spread around the computer world. Also, since USB drive is not a Read-Only Memory (ROM), the data inside it can easily be modified or deleted by malware programs.
But unfortunately, most of the new flash drives do not come with a write-protect feature as the manufacturers wish to cut down the cost of production. Hence, the only way to write-protect your USB flash drives is to enable this feature on your own computer.


Saturday, March 12, 2011

‘Tweet Viewer’ Worm Spreads on Twitter

Story of computer worms and online worms continues. Now what? Here is another worm spreading on world’s number one micro-blogging website Twitter. The name of the worm is ‘Tweet Viewer’ which actually is a worm to destroy your personal information. The tweet from the spammers looks like the following screenshot. Basically this worm tells you who visited your twitter profile. In actual it is a spam.
tweet-viewer-worm-twitter
This spam activity is spreading like more than 150 tweets per minute. If you are a victim of this worm then you need to disable it as soon as possible. Meanwhile you guys are advised to stay away from the tweet mentioned in the above screenshot.

Monday, March 07, 2011

Seven ways to keep your Gmail data safe

Gmail has an estimated 190 million users worldwide. Many even have multiple accounts, the forwarding and ‘send mail as’ features of Gmail actively encouraging this practice.

Which is why it was a rude shock to roughly 40,000 Gmail users when they logged in last week, only to find that all their data—emails, attachments, chats, contacts and documents—had vanished, and their accounts had been reset. The only thing these unlucky users had in their inbox were the automated ‘Welcome to Gmail’ emails.