Category Archives: Security

7 Tips for Social Media Safety

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: June 3, 2010
Think twice the next time a contact tries to “friend” you on Facebook or “follows” you on Twitter. It may turn out to be an undercover fed looking to scrutinize your employment history or examine your personal references.U.S. law enforcement agents are following people into popular social-networking sites, going undercover with false online profiles to [...]
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Visual Test to Check Conficker Infection

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 8, 2009
The April Fools Day Special Conficker worm and its variants have been dreaded by computer users across the world for some time now.
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Facebook users hit by virus

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: December 30, 2008
Facebook’s 120 million users are being targeted by a virus designed to get hold of sensitive information like credit card details.
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Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google’s Chrome

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: October 1, 2008
Aditya K Sood from the EvilFingers community, which disclosed the first Chrome DoS vulnerability at the beginning of the month, has released a proof of concept demonstrating a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability affecting Google’s Chrome versions Chrome/0.2.149.30 and Chrome/0.2.149.29 :
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Trojan masquerades as iPhone game

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 19, 2008
Security firm Sophos warned on Thursday that e-mails being circulated on the Web that purport to offer a free iPhone game instead are carrying a Trojan horse that can take control of infected Windows machines.
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Wireless hacking

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 19, 2008
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Tips to protect your WiFi from hackers

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 16, 2008
It could happen to any one of us. Wake up one morning to discover that the Indian Mujahideen [Images] has hacked into our Internet account and sent out a chilling mail claiming responsibility for a terror attack on the nation.
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How to remove Antivirus XP 2008

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 16, 2008
Antivirus XP 2008 is back, unfortunately. It’s not an antivirus app, but a cleverly disguised rogue security application that tries to get you to buy the non-existent “security” it’s selling. Advertised using the common tricks of Trojans and faux security alerts, this nasty piece of malware can take over your desktop settings to mimic safe [...]
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Simple solution to remember that long list of user ids and passwords

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 15, 2008
There are numerous posts, and arguments, on what is arguably the best way to remember that ever-growing list of user IDs and passwords. Some argue that they are safest in your head. Some suggest noting them down on a sheet of paper, and putting it under lock and key. And then, there are the nerds/geeks [...]
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Firefox 3.1 to gain modicum of privacy

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 14, 2008
Of the two big browsing features of 2008, one seems to run counter to where developers are driving their browsers. The melding of the location bar to the search bar was expected in Firefox and Opera, thanks to beta versions. Chrome has it, too, calling it the Omnibar. What seems to have caught developers off-guard [...]
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