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Simplified Security
A site for information related to security topics, written in a simplified language. Safe social networking practices,information regarding virus...
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Booking tickets in IRCTC? Your Credit Card might be in risk
Simplified Security ― IRCTC is India's most popular travel site, having a monthly user turn over of over 8.4million! (as on April 2011, source)Many uses the site for their day-to-day travel needs. Despite the vast user base, IRCTC is still not upto the mark in... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Oct 2nd, 2011
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Stay Safe on Facebook Part 2: Enhanced Security Features
Simplified Security ― Facebook has been constantly improving its security features to protect its users, they have added SSL,login notifications, recent activity logs etc..Recently they have added "Two Factor authentication mechanism " to improve the security... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on May 26th, 2011
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Can Facebook use my name and profile picture in ads?
Simplified Security ― There were many speculations related to Facebook using users profile picture and social data in their own advertisements. For people concerned about their privacy please read the how to blog from F-Secure turn of this feature.If you are a Facebook... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 4th, 2011
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Check Your Browser's Security Level
Simplified Security ― Wide spread use of social networks and web based services has made web browsers one among the of the most used software, which also made them the weapon of choice for spammers,phishers and hackers. Even people who insists to keep their system up to... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 4th, 2011
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World's First PC Virus "Brain" Turned 25
Simplified Security ― Image Courtesy www.techlahore.com Worlds First PC Virus Brain turned 25 in this January. Researchers from F-Secure managed to get an interview with Brain's creators Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi from Lahore Pakistan. The short but interesting interview... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2011
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Secure Your Facebook Account With SSL and Login Alerts
Simplified Security ― Recently Facebook has rolled out few new features that will enable the users to user their Facebook account with better sense of security. The newly introduced Secure Browsing feature allows users to always use secure connection(https) for... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2011
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Bom Sabado! Orkut Worm!!
Simplified Security ― Today I have been getting many scraps from friends (in Orkut!!!) with just the text "Bom Sabado!". Google translator tells me that it means "Good Saturday!", well seems like its going to be not so good Saturday for many!!.As time passes by more and... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2011
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FACEBOOK "Like" SCAMS
Simplified Security ― If you are a regular user of FB, there is a high chance that you must have seen something like this in your Newsfeed. The title will create such a curiosity in one's mind that, you will be forced to click on it. On clicking the link, you will be... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2011
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"rememberthistime" New Malware In the Wild
Simplified Security ― Today morning I got a mail from a friend of mine with the following content."I ran into some of your old friends the other day, they wanted me to send you this."The email contained an attachement named "rememberthistime.rar" It seemed a legitimate... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2011
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Stay Safe Online: Strong and easy passwords
Simplified Security ― Passwords are the most critical part of security, it keeps everything from your emails,social networks to your financial transactions, safe. No matter how secure the systems are, or how much money was spend to buy the latest security software, you... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2011
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Stay Safe on Gmail : Recovering from a password hack
Simplified Security ― Ever had the nightmare of someone hacking into your mail account?Losing all the contacts you had in a moment....unable to access important mails, or even worse someone is taking advantage financially?Well these are common scenarios theses days, with... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2011
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Tabnabbing : All your tabs belongs to me!!
Simplified Security ― Ever heard of the word "tabnabbing"??? well I haven't until a few days back. Guess what, a new word to the community and new method of attack to the bad guys!!. Its a new method of attack, that can be used for phishing, unveiled by Aza Raski,... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2011
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Stay safe on Facebook
Simplified Security ― There has been so many talks about FB privacy recently, so I thought of putting my thoughts and tricks found on the net to stay as safe as possible on FB while connecting with the friends,[ the safest thing will be not to have an account and you can... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2011
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Facebook SCAMS
Simplified Security ― As Facebook is growing in popularity,its increasingly becoming the target for various kinds of malicious attacks.I have spotted one such scam couple of days back, which will trick people into copy pasting javascript code into their browser's address... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2011
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How to Stay safe on public Wi-Fi
Simplified Security ― I have found an interesting article about staying safe on public wifi, so thought putting some points of my own. You can read the article here.What are the safety concerns associated with public Wifi? Public Wi-Fi networks will be mostly un... (more)
Rakesh Mukundan ―
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2011
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