Archive : Security

It would take about 9trillion years to crack my password What about yours? p.s. 9 trillion years in = 7.21391328 × 1018 m s Anyhow, if you want to test your password security, visit is the ‘How Secure Is My Password‘, and see how your password ranks The site also prompts if you are using a common password that most of the users use!

We all know about the free antivirus by Microsoft. Now there seems to be a fake one too… Microsoft is warning users about a new threat – Fake version of, the Security Essentials. The fake anti-virus, known as Security Essentials 2010 is actually a trojan Win32/Fakeinit, which installs itself to detect cases of breaking at random infected errors, saying they are infected. “It’s [...]

Facebook joins hands with Mcafee to provide 6months of free antivirus to Facebook users. This partnership between Facebook and Mcafee gives you 6 months of free protection for your PC. If you’re on Facebook and looking for an antivirus to protect your PC, the current promotion on the social network can do for you. If you want a free copy of the Mcafee antivirus software, just become a fan of McAfee’s [...]

Techcrunch is reporting that twitter has been hacked again and this time it’s by the so called ‘Iranian Cyber army’!! I’ve tried accessing twitter and its giving me an ISE. I’ve been watching the trends on Google and found that this was a RED hot volcanic. The news spreading like wild fire around 10PM PST time….  Here is a screenshot of the Google trend on twitter attack. Although twitter [...]

There are many websites which host malwares (unknowingly) but they look like pretty nice and authentic sites in order to trap the visitors. Google Safe Browsing tool is a tool developed by Google which helps you to test a website which you think may not be authentic or has malware hidden in the source codes. In order to check if your site has an suspicious code or malware then, you just need to type [...]

I thought Google only bombs people who have miserably failed. But guess not! When you search for ‘Who is failure’, Obama turns out to be on the top list! I don’t think there was any active campaign to linkbomb Obama to the top for these words, so I think this is fallout from the long-standing “miserable failure” googlebomb that was impacting his predecessor, President George W. Bush… Obama [...]

Mozilla announced that the recent update of the .NET Framework Assistant which was updated during the recent auto updated had serious security vulnerability, and Microsoft is recommending that all users disable the add-on. The popup announcing this said that the ‘following addons have been known to cause stability or security issues with Firefox and hence will be disabled.’ Thanks, Mozilla [...]

It was revealed that 10,000+ Hotmail accounts were compromised and all of the usernames and passwords of these accounts were posted online. It was a major security and scam issue, but it was thought to only affect Hotmail users. Unfortunately, Hotmail was only the beginning. Google has now confirmed that thousands of Gmail accounts were compromised by an “industry-wide phishing scheme.” According [...]