Computers and Technology

Here are some simple dos and don'ts that will keep your email accounts secured from hackers. First and foremost implement two step verification processes for all emails like Gmail, Yahoo! and Outlook. This will help you protect your account even if the password is compromised. Also while using an enterprise email service - use PGP to encrypt emails which may contain confidential information.  Never post your email account address on social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter or make them public for everyone. Organized cyber criminal use software that harvest email addresses which are further sold to spammers online. Instead of posting your email account on forms and websites as-it-is. You should avoid using the "@" and ".". So instead of writing my email as smit@hacker.com, I write it as smit[at]ha cker.com This is because hackers run automated scripts to gather information about particular domains which copies and text with the "@...

E verything today from your mobile to refrigerators to cars are interconnected, which made our life easier. This device collectively called IoT. But they have also created new vulnerabilities for hackers. IoT devices are poised to pervasive in our lives than mobile phones and they have access to sensitive personal data may be your credit card number, banking information and many more. As number of IoT devices constantly increase, security risk also increases. Device manufacture’s doesn't care much regarding device security and consumer have to suffer may he can be hacked and there may be severe consequences. A single security concerns on single device can cause multiple concerns when considering multiple IoT devices interconnected together. IoT devices use some form of cloud service and a mobile application use to access and control device remotely. So it’s very important to understand security risk. Current Scenario : Security Risks Privacy Concerns Many devices co...

WordPress is the Best Content Management System (CMS) and number of bloggers and internet marketers uses WordPress CMS for their blog because of its simplicity and awesomeness. But Recently more than 100,000 WordPress websites/blogs are affected by the SoakSoak Malware. And millions of websites on the internet are currently using WordPress and this Malware can be the great threat. How to know whether your WordPress websites are infected by SoakSoak Malware ? Once you are infected with this Malware then you might experience some unexpected redirection to SoakSoack.ru and you will end up downloading malicious files in your computer without your knowledge.   Google (The Search Engine giant) has added more than 10,000+ WordPress websites to their blacklisted sites to protect the users and that can effect the revenue of the website owners. What dose SoakSoak Malware do to your WordPress Website/blog ? The SoakSoak Malw...

We all probably have a friend or two with an iPhone who chooses to leave their "Read receipts" on so you can tell when they've read a text. A lot of people think read receipts are the worst, which is why it's great that Apple allows you to turn them off. Facebook however, does not. When you read someone's Facebook message, they'll always know, seeing the specific time or just the date of when you read the message, depending on when they look back at it themselves. Quite frankly, sometimes you just want to be able to let someone assume that you missed their note. But that "Seen" check-mark makes it impossible to fake: Turns out, there actually  is  a way to disable Facebook read receipts, though not technically through Facebook. You can't avoid read receipts on mobile, but there are a few ways to essentially turn them off on desktop. W Unseen  is a free Facebook app that will let you secretly read messages without the sender...

World’s most popular messaging service just got an update today which now sends a confirmation to the other person when a message is read in a conversation. The previously grey tickmarks now turn to blue as soon as a person reads the messages. We found a solution to bypass this!  This is what the new Whatsapp tickmarks are all about : The social pressure to reply to a message might be greater if someone knows if you have actually read a message or not, making some people uncomfortable so instead of all that, we have found a simple solution to avoid making your tickmarks turning blue! Here’s a trick you can follow to avoid whatsapp sending message read confirmation : When you receive a whatsapp message while you’re online or on your lock screen, don’t open it at first, let it get received with two grey tickmarks Switch off all your mobile internet and Wi-Fi Open whatsapp and read the conversation close the conversation, come back home and turn your Wi-Fi...

C  is a sniper - good if you know how to use it but get one pointer wrong and you shoot your allies C++  is a set of nunchuks, powerful and impressive when wielded but takes many years of pain to master and often you probably wish you were using something else. Perl  is a molotov cocktail, it was probably useful once, but few people use it now. Java  is a belt fed 240G automatic weapon where sometimes the belt has rounds, sometimes it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t during firing you get an NullPointerException, the gun explodes and you die. Scala  is a variant of the 240G Java, except the training manual is written in an incomprehensible dialect which many suspect is just gibberish. JavaScript  is a sword without a hilt. Go  is the custom made “if err != nil” starter pistol and after each shot you must check to make sure it actually shot. Also it shoots tabs instead of blanks. Rust  is a 3d printed gun. It may work so...

Before Hollywood took the hacking phenomena under its wing, unless you were a clued-in techy, the world of hacking would be unfamiliar territory. In recent years, movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Matrix and The Italian Job have managed to glamourize the high-tech thrill of breaking into servers, cracking door codes and hijacking security networks. But before television brought the hacker technology into our general knowing, hacking was still an occurring reality for some. So what is the history of hacking and where did today's sophisticated hacking begin? Late 1950s – The MIT Start Off with a Bang Hacking wasn’t always about computers. In fact, the first ‘hackers’ were roof and tunnel hackers, which the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was instrumental in introducing. These were people who entered roof and utility tunnel spaces without authorization, in other words getting into a place they shouldn’t be in – which is where computer hacking go...