The road to the internet is a tricky one. It isn’t the free information highway that perhaps our technological forefathers dreamt about. Instead, the more access routes that come out for our so called benefit become susceptible to damage and malware attack by a myriad of viscous individuals or shadow organizations no one has yet been able to get a real handle on. So whether you are using a PC, a mobile, or a tablet to connect to the internet, you are a target of some potential surveillance and privacy violation one way or the other (more…)
Top 10 Computer Viruses of all Time
The Internet has been a revolutionary technology that changed the world and the hackers have been trying to crack the vulnerabilities that they can use for their own gains. They also pose a threat to the internet.Here are the top 10 viruses and worms that impacted the world. (more…)
How to identify and stay safe from phishing scams
Phishing is a type of social engineering form of hacking a persons private data like passwords or credit card details or any other private data by faking the identity of any legitimate trustworthy company or individual.Phishing is a basic form of hacking,to steal any sensitive data and due to the less complexity involved in carrying out this hack, it is one of the most widely used method of stealing ones sensitive data. Hence this kind of attack is mainly carried out by noobs who try to steal any sensitive data and the people who are less conscious about these kinds of scam usually fall as a victim. (more…)
Change IP address instantly for free While Browsing
You may need to change your IP address while surfing the internet for anonymity from search engines storing your data or to access any specific location based service. Of course you have a lot of tools offering these features like this, as the most popular anonymizer tool tor.But the problem with that is it takes too much time to start up or it needs to be installed first to use it. But here is a free online tools that lets you change your IP address on the fly..
Use Multiple Passwords for different Websites using a Single Master Password
Its a fact that majority of the web users tend to sign up and register in various websites and use the same passwords on them because its easier to remember.Well recent attacks on popular websites proved that this idea might be dangerous as hackers who gain data of any weak security website database will try to use it for multiple accounts like paypal, using that email address and password, and most of the times find the passwords similar for these accounts. (more…)
4 Best WordPress Plugins for your Blog Security
Your blogs are your most valuable possession and you need to keep it secure from any kind of vulnerabilities from any kind of flaws or security risks once your blog starts receiving a good amount of traffic.This is because as your blog gets more and more popular ,and they also know its a wordpress blog,they might keep trying to find ways to creep into your site or keep trying out random passwords in the yoursite.com/ wp-admin page just to have some fun. (more…)
Check the real link behind a shortened url
Lot of people might be familiar with the link shortening services provided by a lot of websites around the world after being started by the startup service Tinyurl.com.This was created to ease the social media of the long url’s being hogging up the space in the updates and also to provide simplicity for the social media users. (more…)
How to find crawling errors on web pages
Google , Bing and Yahoo and many more search engines scans a webpage via bots that provides the information about the website to the search engines in order for them to rank your web-page.But what if the bots discover any kind of errors or broken links on their way in to the site??. (more…)
Is it possible to know who visited my facebook profile page?
I thought of writing this post after seeing a lot of applications in facebook that came up claiming that they can find the people who visited or viewed their profile.Do they really list out the profile visitors as they claim??..well lets find out.. (more…)
Check if url is safe with multiple checks
Well if your are a internet surfer(that you are) and If your are a person like me who don’t have an antivirus installed on your computer(because i hate them hogging my CPU), then its a better option to check some of your suspicious link urls with a specific tool that will provide a ton of information about the url safety ,using multiple checks by various services provided across the internet. (more…)
