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Ashish Bobade on March 22nd, 2010

We are all temped into downloading free software from the Internet – be it an application or a game.
Most of the time, the program is legitimate and serves the purpose it says it does, but there is also malware disguised as helpful software and it is difficult to separate the chaff from the grain because [...]

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Ashish Bobade on March 6th, 2010

Internet world is all virtual world. Many of us chat with virtual friends, buy goods online from online seller whom we never seen. Is there any way to find out trustworthiness of all these virtual people whom we never seen. Yes there is..
It will be so much helpful if we know about our eBay seller [...]

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Ashish Bobade on February 25th, 2010

While searching for Wordpress theme came across most popular website for Wordpress theme http://topwpthemes.com
When opened URL http://topwpthemes.com/jtheme-journal-theme/
I can see theme but when clicked on ‘Preview’ option hackers page opened. It’s giving message hacked by UNIXMASTERS Hack Group http://wpjunction.com/magazine/?wptheme=Journal

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Ashish Bobade on February 21st, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO — A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation.
Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times James C. Mulvenon said the Chinese government [...]

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Ashish Bobade on February 17th, 2010

What is believed to be the country’s biggest hacker training site has been shut down by police in Central China’s Hubei province.
Three people were also arrested, local media reported.
The three, who ran Black Hawk Safety Net, are suspected of offering others online attacking programs and software, a crime recently added to the Criminal Law. A [...]

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Ashish Bobade on February 11th, 2010

When I look at url http://www.aiims-delhi.in/ its looked like hacked by some group.

But this is not official website of AIIMS. The official site is www.aiims.edu
AIIMS-Delhi.in is an online facility for the AIIMS, Delhi, India for students seeking admission.

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Ashish Bobade on February 7th, 2010

WebGoat is a deliberately insecure J2EE web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web application security lessons. In each lesson, users must demonstrate their understanding of a security issue by exploiting a real vulnerability in the WebGoat application. For example, in one of the lessons the user must use SQL injection to steal fake [...]

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Ashish Bobade on January 23rd, 2010

Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.
To try it out:
Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers.

Why should you try Google Public DNS?
Speed up your browsing experience.
As web pages [...]

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Ashish Bobade on December 23rd, 2009

WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating a hacker attack on Citigroup Inc. that led to the theft of tens of millions of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The bank strenuously denied the report.
Citing anonymous government officials, the Journal reported that the hackers were connected to a Russian cyber gang. Two other computer systems, [...]

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Ashish Bobade on December 20th, 2009

In one of article Wordpress Security Tips we discussed plugins important to secure wordpress blog.
If your server crash for some reason, or your website get hacked, and you will lose valuable data. So the better thing is to take backup regularly.Here are some of the database backup plugins for wordpress.
On top of backing up your [...]

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