A site more or less built around shortened links, Twitter is a veritable Candyland for Phishing scammers — a phenomenon that has really taken hold in the past year or so. But looks like the recent LOL phishing scam that ultimately became a huge spam wave has made Twitter to put some breaks on such attempts and Twitter is finally being proactive about the large number of phishing scams that... 

Ignore Sites that nag to Press the Help key, says Microsoft’s Zero-day Bug Advisory If you’re still using Windows XP, Microsoft has a piece of security advice for you: don’t hit F1! Microsoft has told Windows XP users not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet... 

In this world of information and identity theft it is no more a privilege to use a cool cell phone and brag about it too! In past, crooks used to require more physical ways to lay their hands on your hard earned money. But with the advancement of technology and the prevalence of electronic transactions, now it is just a matter of wrong steps (plethora of information being conveyed in private conversations... 

It’s sophisticated, it’s nasty, it’s ruthless and it’s intelligent. And it leaves no clue to the account holders when it decides to rip their balance off. Security experts agree that cyber-criminals are getting smarter, but this new Trojan takes things to a whole new level. This is one such Trojan horse program, which is very sophisticated and it keeps reinventing itself in... 

Looks like, malware writers have finally decided to take their eyes off Microsoft for a while and place Apple in their radar. It has been hardly over a couple of weeks since we witnessed the first Apple iPhone Worm (iKee) and just when we thought we had found the formula to remove iKee worm from an infected jailbroken iPhone, here is yet another iPhone worm. A Dutch internet service provider has identified... 

If your iPhone is jailbroken and if you see the below image as your home screen, it is time to tighten your seat belt security and remove iKee worm and fix your jailbroken iPhone. A hacker who calls himself/herself iKex has recently created what apparently is the first iPhone worm, and it’s currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The attacks, which researchers say are the world’s... 

A wave of politically-motivated cyber offensives this year – such as attacks on the White House and the US Department of Homeland Security – show that the international arms race is now moving online, a study claims. Warning of a “cyber arms race,” top web security firm McAfee says that China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States have developed cyber weapons. The report... 

Apple Macintosh computers have long been thought to be unattractive to malware, virus writers and hackers, but the scenario is fast changing, as it appears. At the moment, Mac computers are quickly becoming more and more popular with hackers and other online scam artists, prompting security software vendors to unveil Mac versions of antivirus applications. Taking initiative recently Kaspersky Lab... 

Day by day, the world is becoming a dangerous place for you if you happen to be a blogger. And if you are a WordPress Blogger then the danger is just about double as compared to bloggers who use different blogging platforms. With new exploits being discovered everyday and with hackers and spammers using new methods of attacks to exploit these vulnerabilities, it is becoming increasingly difficult to... 

You would have noticed that IE doesn’t allow more than 2 simultaneous downloads from one website. The key related to this is in registry and if you want to change/increase the number of simultaneous downloads then here is how to do that. - Open Registry Editor – regedit.exe (You could invoke it directly from Strat -> Run -> regedit -> OK) Browse to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet...