What is Facebook virus?Facebook virus is just like any other virus that gets installed in a computer when a user clicks on a link shared from his friends’ news feeds or shares. So, the two most common ways that can infect your computer from Facebook viruses are: [Read more…] about How to Remove Annoying Facebook Virus
Internet Security and Safety
Top 10 PHP Security Tips
This is a list of top 10 PHP secuirty tips that you can follow when developing your PHP based web applications.
Restrict access to administrative page
Most of the web based software have administrative page that is used to configure and to manage the software. When you install PHP based software, remember to change the script’s default directory name and also remove the installation script. Some software offer the option to installation script removal after completion of the installation process. [Read more…] about Top 10 PHP Security Tips
How to Create SSH key login with PuTTY in Windows
Though it is always possible to login in your server using username and password, but you always remain vulnerable to brute force attack. You will always feel that someone may break your password and get privileged access to your server. Are there any better ways to make your server access more secure? The answer is positive. You can make your server access more secure by generating SSH key pair. [Read more…] about How to Create SSH key login with PuTTY in Windows
Top 10 Ways to Prevent Data Leak
Who wants to lose his sensitive and confidential data? The answer is everybody wants to avoid embarrassing situation and to keep his data safe. Fortunately, you can avoid losing your data by following a few tips. What you have to do it to remember the following tips by reading it 38 times. Yes you heard it right. [Read more…] about Top 10 Ways to Prevent Data Leak
Simple Ways to Prevent Cyberbullying -What Parents Should Know?
A study conducted by UK based charity Beatbullying showed that almost 73% of the people knew who was sending them bullying messages.
If you are a parent of a teenager, remember that cyberbullying is more common among teenagers and keep reading this post in order to get a few insights on protecting your kids from the cyber neurotics. [Read more…] about Simple Ways to Prevent Cyberbullying -What Parents Should Know?
8 Open Source Web Application Security Testing Tools
Web application security testing might seems intimidating and esoteric to many web administrator, especially to the new ones. Have you ever asked yourself why so many IT professionals ignore the security aspects of the applications? We seem to have a tendency to ignore things that is unperceivable. You become concern when something breaks or any security breach occurs in our IT systems. The truth is there a number of efficient and open source web security vulnerabilities analysis tools that you can easily earn and use to implement IT security best practices to your IT department.
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Android Security Issues and Prevention
This post about android security intends to give the Android users as holistic view of the phone security.
Apps: since android is an open platform and anyone can write apps and publish it in Google apps, the apps itself can contain malicious which may steal data and sensitive tips from your phone. So, when installing any app, try to check if the app has any security issues. A simple Google search may give you useful information about a particular app. to keep your android phone secure, make sure that apps you are already using has no major security concern and try to update your apps or apply the security patches to keep phone secure. [Read more…] about Android Security Issues and Prevention
What is Digital Certificate?How it Works?
A digital certificate is a way to confirm the identity of a public key owner. Normally, a third party organization, known as CA (certification authority), is responsible for confirming or binding the identity of a digital certificate owner. It is used to establish secure communication between two parties who are unknown to each other or have lack of trust. Digital certificate can assure that the person who you can want to establish communication is actually the person who he claims to be.
So, the main reason of using digital certificate is building trust between two parties who want to communicate securely.
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What is Digital Signature and How it Works?
A digital signature is an electronic equivalent of a physical signature. Just like the way a signature in a paper authenticates the signer, the digital signature also confirms the authenticity of the owner. Besides, it ensures that integrity of the data and non-repudiation. Non-repudiation means that the sender cannot later deny that he did not send the message. So, if you have a digitally signed copy of a document, you can say that the sender of the document is authentic and the data in the document has not been modified by any intruders. Therefore, a digital signature has three purposes: [Read more…] about What is Digital Signature and How it Works?
Webhosting Security-Best Practices and Concerns
To many IT professionals, webhosting security means protecting websites from hackers and malicious codes. But most of the time we forget to consider that websites security depends on a number of components such as server , application , database, scripts etc. One of the most important aspects of webhost security is to ensure continuous operation and disaster recovery of web services. This post aims to develop a broader picture that can help you to take necessary steps to ensure your sites continuous operation. [Read more…] about Webhosting Security-Best Practices and Concerns
