Everyday, I will login into my Facebook account to check the updates from my friends and also to reply their comments. But at the Facebook login page, I always change the protocol from HTTP to HTTPS (also known as Hyper Text Transfer Protocol with Secure Socket Layer) before I login. This is to ensure when I clicked the submit button, my username and password transmitted across the network to the Facebook server are secured.
Use HTTPS instead of HTTP
Why is it important to login using HTTPS instead of HTTP? From what I know, when you browsing using HTTP, the data sending from your browser to the server is not encrypted. A hacker with his knowledge and skills will able to capture the packets and can read the data as plain text.
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Yesterday, CypherHackz.Net and all websites under its same server were not accessible. At first, I thought it was only me having the connection problem but actually other people also having the same problem. It cause by a network interruption at Atlanta when one of the cores connecting the server farms was down.
Based from a link given by Sam (the owner of ServerFreak), I found a website that will check websites online status. The website will help you to find out whether only you are having the website down problem or other people also having the same website inaccessibility like you.
Down Or Is It Just Me? is a useful web service to find out website online status. It will check whether the website URL you entered is online or down.
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Whether in Windows or Ubuntu, I will use Mozilla Firefox as my primary web browser. I like using Mozilla Firefox because it is fast (fyi, Google Chrome is faster than Firefox), has thousands of useful addons, properly renders websites and also easy to familiarize even you are a new user.
But two days back, my friend want to format his laptop. But before he proceeds, he asked me how to backup his Mozilla Firefox bookmark. He said, he has around 50 bookmarked websites and he don’t want to lose all his favourite links. So here is what I told him to do.
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I am sure everyone of you have their secrets stored safely in the PC, especially for the guys. Hahaha… And it is depend on how or what you want to use to protect your secret data.
For me, just enough to hide the folder containing my monthly bills payment receipts by using Lock Folder XP.
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It looks like my PC is clean from Conficker worm.
How to find out if your PC has been infected by Conficker worm? By browsing to Conficker Eye Chart webpage, you will get the answer.
Conficker worm blocks access to over 100 security websites and the Conficker Eye Chart displays images from several of those websites. If your browser fails to load any one of the images, then there is a good chance that your computer has been infected by Conficker.
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What is your favourite website when you want to download free softwares? For me, I will choose FileHippo.com.
In FileHippo.com, it has many freeware softwares that you can download directly from its server. No registration is needed. Just pick the software that you like, and click on the download link to download.
The softwares categorized in their particular categories for easier navigation such as Browsers and Plugins, Anti-Spyware, Firewalls and Security, Messaging and Chat, and many others. All softwares hosted at FileHippo.com is totally spyware and virus free. So you don’t have to worry about being infected by a virus.
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Today, I went to IT Hypermarket at Cineleisure, Mutiara Damansara to register for P1 Wimax. Actually, I have been thinking to move from Celcom Broadband to P1 Wimax since two months ago. You can refer to my entry here.
What you need to prepare is just bring your MyKad and also driving license for registration. The registration fee is only RM100. After you have paid the registration fee, you will get the P1 Wimax modem and can start using P1 Wimax after one hour later.
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Western Digital Corp. (WDC) announced that it has agreed to sell the assets of its media substrate manufacturing facility in Sarawak, Malaysia, to a subsidiary of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard drive manufacturing unit of Hitachi, Ltd.
The employees of WD at the facility will become employees of the Hitachi. The transaction is expected to close in the current quarter, subject to customary closing conditions. Terms of the transaction between both corporations were not disclosed.
WD announced in December that it was taking actions to realign its cost structure to match a softer demand environment.
The Sarawak facility, at which WD manufactured aluminum substrates for hard drive magnetic media, was acquired by WD as part of its acquisition of Komag, Inc. in September 2007.
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We always use USB thumb drives or USB external drives as our portable storages. The size is small and lightweight make it easier for us to bring it anywhere we go. But, did you know, most of computer virus infections come from USB drives? I will tell you how the infection works in a few paragraphs later.
USB WriteProtector is a freeware software that can enable or disable the write function to USB through Windows registry. When you choose, “USB write protection ON”, USB WriteProtector will change the USB write value in registry to 0. When the write function is disabled, we cannot write anything such as paste, save, or create new files in our connected USB drives. To enable the USB write function, just choose “USB write protection OFF” to allow write access to our USB drives.
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