HOW TO IDENTIFY PHISHING SCAMS
Thursday, August 5, 2010
What is Phishing? In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
Phishing e-mail messages take a number of forms. They might appear to come from your bank or financial institution, a company you regularly do business with, such as Microsoft, or from your social networking site.
Example of a phishing e-mail message, which includes a deceptive Web address that links to a scam Web site.
Here are a few phrases to look for if you think an e-mail message is a phishing scam.
1.Verify or update your account:
Businesses should not ask you to send passwords, login names, Social Security numbers, or other personal information through e-mail.
2.you have won a prize or lottery:
The lottery scam is a common phishing scam known as advanced fee fraud. One of the most common forms of advanced fee fraud is a message that claims that you have won a large sum of money, or that a person will pay you a large sum of money for little or no work on your part
"3.If you don't respond within 48 hours, your account will be closed."These messages convey a sense of urgency so that you'll respond immediately without thinking.
Tips to protect yourselves from phishing:
1. Don’t reply to, or click links within, emails that ask for personal, financial, or account information.
2. Check the message headers. The ‘From:’ address and the ‘Return-path’ should reference the same source. If necessary, look at the expanded header as some phishing use vulnerable email servers to rout their messages.
3. Instead of clicking the links in emails, go to the websites directly by typing the web address into your browser, cut and paste, or use bookmarks.
4. If on a secure page, look for “https” at the beginning of the URL and the padlock icon in the browser.
5. Use a browser that has a phishing filter (Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Opera).
6. If you ever need to change your account information, such as your billing details or your password, you should always sign in to your account from the main login page of your trusted network (i.e. your bank’s main website) and make the changes directly within your account.
How to save our GMAIL account from hackers
Friday, July 30, 2010
Previously i have posted alot of articles on Gmail hacking.Recently the number of users Gmail users have increased, therefore Gmail have been the major target of lots of hackers.People use Gmail as a primary email and therefore if hackers can gain access to their primary email accounts so therefore they can also hack other accounts associated witth your Gmail account. A long time back Google introduced the ability to optionally encrypt any transmission to / from GMail and not just the login sequence. Previously Gmail used to encrypt the login sequence only. All other data was transmitted unencrypted over the wire making such hacking possible. Every ething that you are doing on your gmail account is transmitted unencrypted over the web. This makes Gmail velnurable to Session hijacking, the hacker can force your browser withGmail Hacking tool to send a cookie file.Once the hacker gets the cookies he can login into your gmail account with out your username and password.Any one with basic knowledge of computers can use this tool to hack your gmail password.
How to protect your gmail account from getting hacked?
So this question might arrive in your minds, well the answer is simple you just need to change your browser connection to https.
To change your browser connection to https kindly perform the following steps:
1.Sign in to Gmail.
2.Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
3.Set 'Browser Connection' to 'Always use https.'
4.Click Save Changes.
5.Reload Gmail.
That's all you need to protect your GMail account from getting hacked.
How to Save Bookmarks in IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
How would you like to save your bookmarks in IE, Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome so that you can restore them in case if you need to re-install your operating system or move them from one computer to another? This post will show you how to save and restore bookmarks in simple steps.
Bookmarking the favorite web pages can save a lot of time as it becomes almost impossible to remember a list of favorite websites and their URLs. However it can be really frustrating at times when you lose all those saved bookmarks in case if a computer crashes. Also if you are a person who uses more than one computer then it becomes hard to copy all those saved bookmarks one by one manually. So saving the bookmarks can become handy in such situations. Here is how to to do it.
Saving a Bookmark file in Internet Explorer
1. From the File menu, select the option Import and Export.
2. Select the option Export to a file and click on Next.
3. In the next screen select Favorites and click on Next.
4. In the next screen again click on Favorites and click on Next.
5. Now choose the destination where you want to save your bookmarks and click onExport.
6. In the next screen click on Finish.
Now you have successfully saved all your bookmarks in a .HTM file. You can use this file to later restore the bookmarks to either IE, Firefox or any other browser. To import the saved bookmarks from a file all you need to do is goto File menu, click on Import and Export, select the option Import from a file and proceed with the screen instructions.
Saving a Bookmark file in Firefox
1. From the Bookmarks menu on the top select the option Organize Bookmarks.
2. A window will pop-up. From the window click on Import and Backup at the top and select the option Export HTML.
3. Now choose the destination where you want to save the bookmark file and click onSave.
To restore this saved file, follow the step-1 and in step-2 select the option Import HTMLinstead of Export HTML and proceed.
Saving a Bookmark file in Google Chrome
1. From the Tools menu, select Bookmark Manager.
2. Click the Organize menu in the manager.
3. Select Export bookmarks.
4. Select the location where you want your exported file to be saved, then click Save.
To restore the bookmarks, follow step-1, step-2 and in step-3 select Import bookmarksinstead of Export bookmarks and proceed.
Saving a Bookmark file in Opera
1. From the File menu, select the option Import and Export.
2. Scroll over to the pull-down menu on the right and choose Export Bookmarks as HTML.
3. On the next screen, choose the destination folder from the Save in menu text box at the top of the screen.
4. Just click the Save button and you’re done.
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