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Hide any file or folder inside another file using Clotho

Hide any file or folder inside another file using Clotho
There are several ways and tools to keep your private files and folders from being seen by others – password protecting, encrypting etc. Clotho is a free tool that works a little differently. It lets you hide any file or folder inside of another file (called the mask file). Download and install Clotho from http://clotho.ixenity.tk. [...]
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Make your Facebook information secure with https

Make your Facebook information secure with https
By default Facebook does not use a secure connection and uses an http connection rather than the secure https connection. An http connection sends your information in plain text. This means that the information that you send over the Internet through Facebook can be intercepted by packet sniffer tools. But when you send information using [...]
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Kamasutra virus hides in a PowerPoint presentation

Kamasutra virus hides in a PowerPoint presentation
Sophos computer security firm recently warned that hackers are spreading a nasty computer virus with a file promising a PowerPoint presentation of sexual positions from the Kama Sutra. Clicking on the file does open a real PowerPoint presentation with more than half a dozen lovemaking techniques illustrated from the ancient Indian text. But in the [...]
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Password protect minimized applications with LockThis

Password protect minimized applications with LockThis
Have you ever wanted to let a friend quickly borrow your windows computer, but didn’t want to worry about them looking through the other applications that you have open, like, maybe an instant messenger window? One way would be to save and close all the other applications before you hand over the machine to your [...]
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Say goodbye to Forgotten Passwords with LastPass

Say goodbye to Forgotten Passwords with LastPass
There are several tools to help you manage the plethora of passwords we all accumulate online. There are some tools that just manage passwords while other also fill in web forms. Some have to be installed in a particular computer while some are portable and can be carried on a USB key. LastPass offers just [...]
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Uncover the web bugs hidden in web sites

Uncover the web bugs hidden in web sites
Did you know that most of the web sites that you visit  contain Web bugs? Web bugs are not really bugs in the true sense. They are hidden scripts that track your behaviour and are used by the sites you visit to understand their own audience. Ghostery is a free add-on for Firefox that can [...]
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Beware of hidden fields in a Word document

Did you know that there could be hidden fields in your Word documents which can be used to peer into your PC and even grab your files? Here’s how to prevent that from happening. There is a little known trick in Microsoft that can allow malicious users to steal your private information. It could even [...]
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Vishing – Be wary of voice phishers

Vishing – Be wary of voice phishers
I suppose you already know what Phishing is. But have you heard of vishing? Vishing is Voice Phishing. You receive an e-mail or get a prerecorded voice message (supposedly from your bank, or PayPal, or some other financial institution) informing you that a large transaction—one you never performed—has been held up. The message includes a [...]
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Beware – The Win32.Worm.Downadup worm is out to get you

Beware – The Win32.Worm.Downadup worm is out to get you
The Win32.Worm.Downadup is raging across the Internet, using new tricks to spread undetected. The worm spreads by exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows RPC Server Service and has infected millions of Windows PCs in the last two weeks. Apparently, there are several different variants of Downadup running wild. The algorithm to create the domain names [...]
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How to turn on two-way Firewall protection in Vista

How to turn on two-way Firewall protection in Vista
Both Windows XP and Vista offer built in Firewall protection. But the difference is that while WinXP offer protection against incoming threats only, Vista is capable of two-way protection, meaning, the Firewall in Vista is capable of watching and blocking both inbound and outbound traffic. Monitoring outbound traffic could be just as critical as monitoring [...]
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