Posts filed under 'Security'

New York Times reports that the Homeland Security Department is preparing to install and test high-tech machines at airport checkpoints known as backscatters that use X-ray imaging technology to allow a screener to scan a body. And yes, the body image is detailed. (more…)

“If you have a Yahoo e-mail account or belong to one of Yahoo’s many Yahoo groups, this probably applies to you. Yahoo has probably been tracking everything you do online. Follow the instructions precisely to opt out of this. Notice the important part at the very end.
Yahoo is now using something called ‘Web Beacons’ to track Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you’re doing and where you are going similar to cookies. Yahoo is recording every website and every group you visit.” reports Forever Geeks (more…)

Microsoft is willing to replace your purchased counterfeit versions of Windows XP with complimentary genuine Windows copies, if customers are willing to file a piracy report on the vendor. (more…)

The Mask Email Image Generator will create a JPG image of your email address. Use it in place of text to fool those search bots that seek out email addresses for purposes of sending junk email. (more…)

I must concede that Download.com is the first place I visit to download all my software. They are fast and professional. But they offered all types of software, many of which had adware. Removal of these software then required Adware removal tools. (more…)

You have encountered it everywhere on the web whenever you register online on various websites - Captcha (an acronym for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. A common type of captcha requires that the user type the letters of a distorted and/or obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen. (more…)

Email Riddler is an online tool that encrypts email address and transforms it into a series of numbers when displaying it, making it virtually impossible for spam harvesters to crawl and add your email to their list. (more…)

I have the Firefox password manager turned on and am a regular Yahoo mail user, but Yahoo email always asks for the username and password to be filled up. The username and password never autofills though you have turned on the option to save passwords in firefox. I tried everything from clearing the cache, to reinstalling firefox to deleting all passwords and refixing it and finally creating a new Firefox profile as the last measure - but nothing worked! (more…)

PookMail is a disposable email account system. When someone or some site asks you for your email address, just pick one from pookmail.com. Use any unusual email id name like seemyaccount23@pookmail.com (more…)

My cousin constantly kept cribbing about his slow computer. So I finally decided to try to give him a visit… (more…)