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Facebook Graph Search: Useful search engine or phishers dream come true?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Facebook recently launched a notable new feature known as Graph Search. Mark Zuckerberg highlighted this feature as one of the 3 pillars of Facebook (after Newsfeed and Timeline) that make the social network relevant and personalized. But how safe is Graph Search? We feel that there are several security and privacy concerns that accompany this […]

Season’s greetings: Beware of security threats and fake phishing pages

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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The festive season brings with it heart warming wishes and some great online deals for shoppers and discount seekers. Online retailers present some great discounts and add-ons at this time of the year and online sales see a massive surge in activity as a result. Unsurprisingly, attackers and phishers use this jubilant opportunity to trick […]

Germans demand anonymous accounts over Facebook: Wise move or not?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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German legislators have stoked the fires of Facebook privacy by ordering the social network to allow anonymous accounts and pseudonyms in place of real names of people. This demand originated from Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany. A data protection agency called Unabhaengiges Landeszentrum fuer Datenschutz (ULD) has emphasized the German decree that guarantees the […]

Simple security tips to avoid Twitter phishing scams

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Twitter is a great platform for sharing news, opinions and links. Created in 2006, Twitter has more than 500 million active users today and generates more than 350 million tweets every single day. This has naturally led to several phishing attacks over the microblogging platform. The fact that links are instantly published on a large […]

Latest security news and updates

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Malware exploits Windows AutoRun Strains of malware that spread via the AutoRun feature that automatically launches programs when a USB drive or a disk is inserted into a machine is on the rise today. These kinds of malware exploit a certain bug in the AutoRun software so it is recommended that everyone disables this feature. […]

Future Watch VI: Passwords are on their way out due to their vulnerability

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Every individual who is active on the Internet has a secret to protect. This secret is usually just a few characters long and is commonly known as the password. But how effective can a password really be? Passwords are a 20th century creation that were effective back when there was hardly any personal information on […]

Viral Facebook copyright message is nothing but a scam

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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If you recently came across a viral Facebook privacy notice that mentioned copyrights of your content, photos and videos, you should be forewarned that this notice is yet another Facebook scam. Facebook recently updated their privacy guidelines and also allowed users to comment on these changes for the first time. Unfortunately, this has led to […]

5 things you should never reveal on social networks

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Many people fail to notice how their online lives endanger their day to day lives. An overload of information shared online, especially over social networks, is perhaps the biggest risk. Constant access to our devices and phones also allows us to share information at a level never seen before. But on the other hand, this […]

Have you used these easy and effective Quick Heal Parental Control tools?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Parents of school going kids have several questions when it comes to cyber security. Some of these issues involve the freedom and time that should be given to kids when they access the Internet. Other questions revolve around the mode of access in the first place. Today it is very common to see pre-teens with […]

5 effortless steps to block Facebook spam from reaching your news feed

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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We recently posted an article about Facebook ‘Like’ scams and the truth behind them. This post talked about how some parties created fake pages to invoke sympathy and got hundreds of thousands of likes and comments as a result. This in turn enhanced the Edge Rank of a page and spread as spam to even […]