McAfee Research names .hk as most dangerous country domain
Hong Kong (.hk) domain has jumped 28 places as the most dangerous place to surf and search on the web according to a new McAfee Inc. report called “Mapping the Mal Web Revisited“.
The second annual McAfee “Mapping the Mal Web” report into the riskiest and safest places on the Web reveals that 19.2% [...]
Eraser - Don’t just delete your files, Erase them, forever.
Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others - passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records etc.
Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things [...]
Firefox: Protect saved passwords with a Master Password
If you are not using a dedicated password manager like Roboform or the like to take care of your passwords, then you would either have to remember the passwords to all the sites you log into, or let your browser save your passwords. Of course, you wouldn’t want the browser to save your passwords in [...]
Tiny Radio tags to provide counterfeit protection
The diamond ring of the future will radiate its unique beauty quite literally thanks to a minuscule radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip embedded in it.
Scientists at Hitachi Research Labs in Japan have devised the smallest RFID tag ever, just 0.05 millimeter by 0.05 millimeter, tinier than a grain of sand.
The so-called powder chip is thin enough [...]
Pharming - Redirecting website traffic to bogus sites
Most of you would have heard about Phishing. But have you heard about Pharming?
Pharming is just another example of how hackers try to manipulate computer users via the Internet.
Basically, pharming is the act of redirecting a website’s traffic to another, bogus Web site, without them ever knowing it happened. When you want to visit a [...]
All Mobiles should have anti-theft software
Recently my wife lost her mobile phone. We knew that the chances of getting it back were remote. Yet, there were a few formalities to be completed. So the whole day I kept calling up the lost phone’s number and as expected I got a “It is switched off” message. In the meantime I also [...]
U.S. Researchers Claim New System Kills Worm Outbreaks
U.S. researchers have come up with a technique that claims to be able to stop Internet worms within milliseconds of an outbreak.
The Proactive Worm Containment (PWC) system, as its inventors at Penn State University call it, uses no signatures to identify an attack. Instead it relies on the frequency of connections at a packet level, [...]
