In our daily life, Internet is so important. We use the internet to check our emails, login into our online bank account, login to Paypal, check your feed news, and many more. Each of the website requires you to enter your username and password before you can use the services provided. One of the good methods to secure your accounts is to use different password for each account you have. But, the problem to human being is, some of them can’t remember all the passwords they use.
So, is there has any method or software that can helps us to remember all the passwords? Firefox has the feature to remember the password we entered and we only need to remember the master password. But, how about if we want to login from someone PC? Like your friend’s PC for example. Your passwords are stored in your PC and not in your friend’s PC. So, how can you login to your account if you can’t remember the password? And even if you remember the password, are you sure your friend’s PC is safe? No keylogger installed?
RoboForm splash screen
RoboForm is the software that can helps you to remember your passwords. But, I had to tell you first, this software is not free. You have to pay for it but believe me, this software is really cool and helps me a lot. It is so efficient but has one tiny problem. I will discuss the problem at the end of this post.
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Do you know what is anti-spyware? It is a software that can removes spywares from your PC. In simple word, it is like the anti-virus but their job is to clean your PC from unwanted applications that was installed in your PC which monitors the users’ behaviour, collect personal informations like internet browsing, etc.
There are many anti-spywares available in the market. Some of them are free and some are paid version. Before this, I used Ad-Aware to protect my PC from spyware but recently I found another good and better anti-spyware which is, SUPERAntiSpyware.
With SUPERAntiSpyware, your PC will be protected from spywares and it can removes over 1 million pests and threat components such as VirusRay, AntiVirGear, VirusProtectPro, DriveCleaner, SmitFraud, Vundo, WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, WinAntiVirus, AntiVermins, AntiSpyGolden and thousands more.
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Edit: Make sure you correct the apostrophe and the quote of the javascript first. It seems like I having problem with the character encoding. Does anyone know how to fix it?
The combination of username-password is the popular method to authenticate someone that he or she is the authorized person to use a service or has a privilege. Username can be viewed clearly but the password is hidden behind the asterisks. Although the password is hidden but we still can view it using software that is available from the Internet.
Snadboys’ Revelation is a freeware tool that you can use to reveal password behind the asterisks. I have tested it on my FTP client and it really works. I can see my hidden password like in the screenshot below.
After you have installed SnadBoys’ Revelation, run the software and drag the crosshair cursor to the asterisks. Then, the password will be revealed in Text of Window Under ‘Cricle’ + ‘Cursor’ .
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David Airey has lost his domain after his Gmail account was hacked by a hacker. But how did the criminal can take down David’s domain? You can read the full story here but if you want to know how the attacker did it, please read on.
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First, the victim login to his Gmail account as normal. Then he visit to a website which contains a script that exploiting the vulnerability in Gmail. This script will create a new filter in the victim’s email. Like in the example above, the script creates a filter that will forward any email that has attachment to collect@evil.com.
But how about if the filter is set to forward all incoming emails to the attacker email? Do you will happy losing all your secret and passwords to the attacker? Of course you are not.
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Every computer needs an antivirus. Antivirus will protect your PC from viruses, trojans, worms and any harmful scripts that can destroy your computer. To protect my computer from this disaster, I’m using Kaspersky Internet Security.
So far, my Kaspersky doing its jobs very well. It protects my PC since the computer boots up until I shut it down. I am very happy with Kaspersky performance. When a virus is found, my Kaspersky will do its job without I need to choose which action to take. Here, I will share with you what settings that I use for my Kaspersky.
Note: Although this guide using Kaspersky Internet Security but it is also can be use for Kaspersky Antivirus.
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My website was once hacked by a hacker from Saudi Arabia. He managed to get into the server and replaced the index.php file with his own index file. I don’t know how he can get into my server but I have learnt many things from that bad experience.
Always upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version - It is really recommended to upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version. It is because each new version contains bug fixes and patches to vulnerabilities that exist in the older version. So make sure that you upgrade your Wordpress when the latest version is out.
Files and folders permission - In Wordpress, we need to set permission to certain files or folders to make it works properly. Especially when using plugins that need special CHMOD 777 permission. When you doing this, make sure that you give permission to the correct files and folders only. We don’t want other peoples can upload and run script through our server, right?
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There is a report saying that recent virus attacks regarding the email containing malicious PDF files are coming from servers in Malaysia and Sweden.
“The emails, sent in bulk, looked like credit-card statements, and contained an attachment called ‘report.pdf’,” chief research officer Mikko Hypponen said in a statement.
When such PDF files are viewed on vulnerable machines, they start downloading software from servers in Malaysia or Sweden, which are now being cleaned, he said. “There will be more such attacks.”
-Mikko Hypponen (F-Secure Chief Research Officer)
To prevent your PC from being infected, a new security update for Adobe Acrobat Reader has been released a few days ago. But there is a question that I want to ask, what should we do to the company who hosted the server in Malaysia? Maybe we might need to ban the provider. Because of them, Malaysia get bad reputation in security and IT field.
PDF files used to attack computers [via Colbert Low]
Turn your PC on, and you’re immediately vulnerable to malicious attacks. But you can use these free applications to minimize the dangers and protect yourself.
Preventing and Eliminating Malware
- ZoneAlarm
- Comodo Firewall Pro
- Avast
- AVG Anti-Rootkit
- Spyware Blaster
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BotVoice.A was first found by Panda Lab is the first trojan that can talk. It talk by using the built-in speech function in Windows. The trojan will repeatedly saying this message:
You have been infected I repeat You have been infected and your system files has been deleted. Sorry. Have a Nice Day and bye bye…
Download to hear the voice.
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For me as a Wordpress theme coder don’t like users to remove my link from the footer. I really hate them (not really but don’t like) when they remove my link and make like the theme was made by them. So, to protect the PHP file from being edited by the users, I have encrypted the file so they can’t edit the footer file. But, how do I do that?
I use an encoder to encrypt and lock the file. Free PHP Encoder will encrypt the source code and can only be decoded when the users request the file from their internet browsers. Although they can request the file, but they can’t modify it. Even I can’t retrieve back the source code if I lost the original file. So with this encryption, your link on the footer will be safe.
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