Tag Archive | "security"

Beware: Facebook Phishing Scam in the Wild

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Beware: Facebook Phishing Scam in the Wild

I woke up this morning to see 45 emails via Facebook. Looks like I started spamming my friends’ walls with messages like ‘How to make $6000 with hot colon?’. Luckily, I have friends who know me better than to post such nonsense in their walls and they said so. Finally, the Facebook team had sensed the [...]

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Access Blocked Websites By Email

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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Access Blocked Websites By Email

For some reason, my getting around blocked websites has received a tremendous response here. So, I figured I’d share another way you can get to blocked websites just by using your email. MailMyWeb.com is a beta web service that lets you send an email with the url of the site you want as the subject. In [...]

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Was My Gmail Hacked This Morning?

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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Was My Gmail Hacked This Morning?

I really thought that was the case when I saw a bunch of emails marked as read when I know for sure I hadn’t opened them. I was in a 3 hour meeting. My first thought was to check to see if anyone else is logged into my Gmail account elsewhere right now. You can do that [...]

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Digsby – Not My Favorite Instant Messenger Right Now

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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Digsby – Not My Favorite Instant Messenger Right Now

I famously proclaimed that Digsby is my favorite instant messenger in this blog post. Digsby is a free instant messaging client that offered support for multiple instant messaging support including Gtalk, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, etc. It also stodd out by offering support to social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc making it a one-stop application [...]

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How to Remove PC AntiSpyware 2010?

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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How to Remove PC AntiSpyware 2010?

A long time reader of ShanKrila and a blogging friend of mine, Jeanne Dininni of Writer’s Notes contacted me yesterday by email with a computer question. I’ve been battling a “PC Antispyware 2010″ computer infestation. Don’t know whether you’re familiar with it or not, but I was hoping that maybe you’d be able to give me [...]

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A Good Proxy to Get around Blocked Sites

Saturday, July 18, 2009

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We have previously looked at some good proxies to get around blocked websites. Some readers in the comments have said some of the php based proxies don’t work anymore. It is a reality that most of the social networking sites are blocked in most work and school places. I am not here to argue the merits [...]

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Firefox 3.5.1 Security Update – Install it now

Friday, July 17, 2009

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There was a critical security vulnerability detected in last week’s Firefox 3.5 release. Mozilla has reacted quickly and has pushed a security update that fixes this security hole. If you are running Firefox 3.5, go to Help -> Check Updates and update to Firefox 3.5.1 immediately. You can find more details here.

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