From the Apple insider blog we just got to know a new scam used to bait users. All existing MobileMe users are warned of a fake email from internet fraud sites pretending to Apple upgrade iCloud mail. These scammers steal credit card information. The official word from Apple said, the company will not require users [...]
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Sony Accused Of Using Lame Capatcha Technology
Unfortunately, Sony missed the entire point of a CAPTCHA. Instead of using an obfuscated image which is difficult for computers to recognize the characters, they include the CAPTCHA’s unobfuscated characters in HTML and use CSS and JavaScript to make the characters appear slightly distorted. Why is this lame you ask? Its simply because, bots can [...]
How Safe is your password?
It would take about 9trillion years to crack my password What about yours? p.s. 9 trillion years in = 7.21391328 × 1018 m s Anyhow, if you want to test your password security, visit is the ‘How Secure Is My Password‘, and see how your password ranks The site also prompts if you are using [...]
iPad: A new target for hackers
Certainly, the iPad is a real success and sales have exceeded the expectations by Apple and they believe they would run out of stock… but this does not prevent hackers from working hard to target the Apple Tablet fans around the world! An email is sent from unknown sources which states of an update of [...]
Fake Security Essentials 2010 – Beware
We all know about the free antivirus by Microsoft. Now there seems to be a fake one too… Microsoft is warning users about a new threat – Fake version of, the Security Essentials. The fake anti-virus, known as Security Essentials 2010 is actually a trojan Win32/Fakeinit, which installs itself to detect cases of breaking at [...]
Get Free Mcafee Antivirus – Facebook Fan Exclusive Offer
Facebook joins hands with Mcafee to provide 6months of free antivirus to Facebook users. This partnership between Facebook and Mcafee gives you 6 months of free protection for your PC. If you’re on Facebook and looking for an antivirus to protect your PC, the current promotion on the social network can do for you. If [...]
New type of codec Trojan attack alert – don’t watch that movie online!
If you think you are a super genius smart a$$ to download a pirated version of Avatar or 3idiots, then thing again. A new Trojan called FakeAV is smarter than you. Symantec, maker of Norton Anti-Virus, has cautioned people from visiting certain blogs which post to give you a free download of the latest movie. [...]
Twitter hacked (again); Google trends show its hotness as Volcanic.
Techcrunch is reporting that twitter has been hacked again and this time it’s by the so called ‘Iranian Cyber army’!! I’ve tried accessing twitter and its giving me an ISE. I’ve been watching the trends on Google and found that this was a RED hot volcanic. The news spreading like wild fire around 10PM PST [...]
Check if your WordPress site is infected by Malware
There are many websites which host malwares (unknowingly) but they look like pretty nice and authentic sites in order to trap the visitors. Google Safe Browsing tool is a tool developed by Google which helps you to test a website which you think may not be authentic or has malware hidden in the source codes. [...]
Who is failure? Obama? another Google bomb
I thought Google only bombs people who have miserably failed. But guess not! When you search for ‘Who is failure’, Obama turns out to be on the top list! I don’t think there was any active campaign to linkbomb Obama to the top for these words, so I think this is fallout from the long-standing [...]
