Google Chrome update : Brings noisy tab tracking, enhanced malware detection and much more

Google Chrome is my favorite browser and with the latest update in Chrome Beta it has again gained much of my attention. Chrome Beta has many new features which includes noisy tab tracking, improved malware detection and a new look on Windows 8 "Metro" mode. Chrome Dev team is working very hard in improving the overall experience of your browsing. Notice your Chrome Beta carefully to get familiar with these useful tools.

Ransomware the biggest Threat

Ransomware is a kind of malware that restrict you from accessing your computer untill you pay money to attacker and take up all accessing rights from you and demands for money (ie. ransom) to get back your all data. It basically encrypt your data and even you are able to open your files , they are not readable and attacker has only one intention that he/she demands for money and doesn't decrypt your data untill you pay ransom. 

Software to Hardware : NSA intercepted computer deliveries to enter into your system

It all began with the news of NSA being hacking computers across the globe to fulfill whatever their aims were. But now according to a stunning report by German magazine, NSA has intercepted the computer deliveries to install or exploit hardware into them and later use it for accessing those machines easily. Moreover they even hijacked Microsoft's bug report system to do better spy o n their targets.

Guardian app from CreativeThoughts on Windows Phone 8 is designed to increase women security in India

Guardian app
on Windows Phone 8
(From CreativeThoughts)

A new app on Windows Phone 8 has just arrived to ensure that you are always safe when going out to regions you are not familiar of. Guardian app from CreativeThoughts is a new and refreshed security application with lots of things that a person in bad time needs. With a single click on the SOS button you can send messages to your contacts, security agencies, police, ambulance, fire stations etc. There is lot more in the app which a women in current scenario of society needs.

Tracking is also one of the very useful measures at times. This security application on your Windows Phone 8 tracks your every movement and let your friends and family follow your every movement using Microsoft Bing Maps and Windows Azure Cloud service.

Much enhanced security features to be added for all Microsoft accounts - Microsoft

Internet widespread is happening at much greater pace than our Galaxy is expanding. More the internet widespread, more number of threats (Official and Unofficial) originates from different parts of the Digital world through different means. Microsoft has finally decided to fight back strongly with all the odds of the digital world. They are planning to bring more enhanced security features to all Microsoft accounts across the globe which will cover around 700 million people. In past they added Two-Step verification method for all of their users and for the future they will bring Recent Activity, Recovery Codes and Better Security Notifications.

Google and Microsoft to take the lead for stopping child pornography

Internet is slowly but surely eating us in many ways. The most sensitive part of our society, childs, are more prone to it if proper restrictions are not imposed on some of the online content. In this regard Microsoft and Google has taken the lead by which they are making harder for users to find most of the illegal images online. When combined, both search giants makes the 95% of the total search queries of the world.

How to create a password reset disk

Password Reset disk is a kind of personal storage device that contain the password key which you can use for resetting your password details whenever you have forgotten. It is very helpful as it allows access to your stuffs in your computer in such situation. Once you create a password disk ,you can get access to your computer even if you forget your password. Password reset disk will help you to reset your password and one more interesting thing ,you don't need to create it again and again and doesn't matter how many times you have changed your password. You can use any hardrive , pen-drive or any other storage to create a password reset disk.

Guidelines for safe online banking

Online banking also known as Net-banking is a practice of doing things on internet like bank transactions , paying bills and withdrawing of money .In modern lifestyle ,everyone wants to complete work in seconds and online banking let you to do any transaction from home with having to go anywhere and saves a lot of time.Online banking is really helpful as customer need not to wait for bank statements ,they can easily access their accounts and check their balance anytime just by logging in. They can catch unusual activity or any kind of discrepancy. But you know every technology has its pros and cons. You have to be very careful while using net-banking.

Information Security

Information Security is the defending your information from unauthorize access or measures taken to protect data from going into wrong hands. In today's computerised world we are mostly used to with information through PC's ,laptops and many other mobile devices and to our comfort we usually store our info (including credentials) in our personal devices.This cause an ease to access our info anywhere but in parallel there are also some security threats to our personal data, there is a substantial need to secure our data from theft or unauthorize access.

Malware :How to get rid of it.

Malware is a malicious software that is designed to penetrate into a computer system or get access to a computer and restricting the computer's normal operation without owner's permission. Malware can be in the form of a viruses,trojan horse,worms ,rootkits and spywares and most of the malwares are designed to steal your confidential informaton from your computer.They can intrude into unprotected computers in the form of e-mail attachments.Here are some of the forms of malwares that you need to know and tips to get protected from such malwares.

How to recall email on gmail

Sometimes while e-mailing it is quite embarassing to remember an email id even when you sometime write a wrong email id and email is sent and you don't want that information be mailed to some anonymous person. here are some steps that can help you to recall that email.

E-mail Security

We all are very familiar to e-mails ,and generally internet users are very much familiar to the e-mails.E-mails are just like the post cards and contain the information to whom they are proposed so they are meant to kept private and personal email ids should not be shared with anyone. Sharing involves a lot of risk and when it comes to security , you have to be very updated with security tactics provided to you by e-mail service provider.

Downloading risks

Downloading process includes accessing of remote files or programs that can be viewed on personal computer with the help of an internet.

We download a lot of files like media files, docs and pdfs etc. as these are present on remote computers which are shared by different people.Opening pictures and e-mails link that direct on a website ,copying word files and pdfs from company's network as well as upgrading software from web and transferring music files from a computer are a part of downloading. Downloading files from internet may include installation of some kind of programs.Opening a picture media files,links and downloading a music files may not be same as they represent,but these contents may also have some involvement of malicious softwares like viruses,worms and many destructive programs.

Got a SPAM Message? Report it to Apple

Apple recently updated their knowledge base articles on their website which introduces reporting of spam messages to Apple when someone get a message that was not meant for him.  This feature adds more security to the iPhone and other Apple's devices environment.

ATM Threat:Some tips and guidelines

ATM (Automated Teller Machine) came into existence in 1960.It's basic aim was the provision of cash for its customers wherever required from nearest ATM.It proved out to be the best technological development as it helps all the financial institutions to provide 24 X 7 services for their customers and also provide the convenience for the customers to get cash wherever they are in need.

Android under attack

Attackers have now set their target on android OS and they are exploiting the android vulnerability due to which attacker can easily creep into a user's phone without changing the digital signature of that app.This could get them control remotely over victim's phones that can lead to sending SMS, disabling  the security of phone and stealing of data.Till now six apps of android have been detected as hijacked.

Browser Security

We are so concern about the security and if it is about ourself ,our resources ,our data or any our stuff .Browser is a software tool that runs on internet and we use to get information from web. It displays the web pages.It's main purpose is to bring requested information by a client from server. It is used on PC's as well as on mobile phones to get access to information.There are different technologies that support web browsers like java, frames, xhtml, jsp and many more, all these technologies have made easier to use internet.

Internet Ethics

Ethics are the set of rules that tells the acceptable behaviour of an individual while using the internet.One of the common issue of internet ethics is violation of copyrights.Creating duplicates of copyright content without approval of authors and accessing personal information of others without knowing them are against the internet ethics.Internet ethics differentiate between what is right and wrong and it respect the rights and property of others on internet.