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Stay secure on internet, be hack proof while surfing

April 24th, 2011 admin No comments

Security is a major concern. Its just that some people never take it seriously. (and many don’t know anything)

People are then taken for a ride, with their account getting hacked and messing up after that.

Staying secure on the internet is very important and so we show you this very small Firefox Browser extension which makes use of HTTP S (S-Secure) for browsing. If your data is transmitted over HTTPS, then a hacker cannot read the data because its encrypted….It makes you more secure than just simple HTTP.

This plugin will then secure all your connections (wherever available).

HTTPS Everywhere by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation):

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.

Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.

The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.

To download / install HTTPS Everywhere on your Firefox Browser —>CLICK HERE<—

Image courtesy of EFF

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Security with social bookmarking sites – Orkut, facebook, twitter and else

April 5th, 2010 TuX No comments

I have written this post after one of my friends claimed that her orkut account was hacked……Yes…its really bad if someone logs into your account and makes some unacceptable changes…..

SO, what can you do to protect your account from being hacked, or allowing somebody else to log-in easily.

1 ) The first and the most important thing to do first is to always ensure that you log-out of your account while closing the browser. Most people don’t know this and then their account is mis-used.

2) Always remember to clear the check box which says “Remember password on this computer”, Whenever you use orkut / facebook / twitter on shared computer. This won’t store your user-id and password on the computer which might give others an easy chance to log-into your account.

3) Make sure that the computer you surf does not have tons of viruses…..Sometimes some programs can monitor your keyboard strokes (Keyloggers), whilst some others can send the data to hacker’s computers over the internet and can actually cause your account to be hacked.

4) Also ensure that you do not provide any login / password info on pages which are outside the social networking website…..These are known as phishing attacks and are becoming more popular forms of targeting the users. So stay aware and do not provide any login information elsewhere.

These 4 easy steps of caution will help in increasing the security of your account.

And there is plenty of security tips provided by the social networking sites, please read all the notifications carefully.

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If you have more problems…..Feel free to post a comment here….I will be glad to help you…..

Written By TuX……

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How to speed up surfing speeds on your connection by changing DNS

June 6th, 2009 admin No comments

About DNS :

It can happen that you have a good connection but the websites don’t open as quickly as you had expected. This can happen due to slow DNS ( Domain Name Service ) which has to “convert / translate” the names of the website to the numerical address of the server which is something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and connect to the server.

If the server responds with good speeds then probably you can get a lot faster browsing experience……I stress on “browsing” because download speeds are not affected by changing your DNS servers….

OpenDNS claims they have the fastest DNS servers (and free!!!) which are spread in many locations in the world to speed up your browsing. They also provide many other services like content filtering and ip / website banning. This can be helpful if you want to ban a specific category of sites like adult or nudity etc. The filter works great and the speeds are also good. You can even change the error message whenever it notifies the users that the site is blog. You can even implement the filtering and use OpenDNS service for more than one IP’s.

If you are on dial-up or do not have a static IP, then you can download a small utility called OpenDNS Updater, which updates your current dynamic IP to the openDNS servers to effectively implement your filtering rules and for a better browsing experience.

So….if you need to change your DNS servers then foloow this simple procedure.

1. Go to Control Panel —> Network Connections.

2. Then select the connection which you use to connect to the internet and right click it and then click on Properties.

3. Then select the Networking tab…

4. Select Internet Protocol and Click on Properties.

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