CAPTCHA—Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart—is an both an annoyance and a safety net for netizens. A large number of web services (blogger, gmail, yahoo mail, live hotmail
27 February 2008 
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The Web
15 January 2008
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Blogging
Protecting your content
Scrapers are the worst type of visitors to your site. Why? They “scrape” everything, your posts, your images, even links which are likely at the bottom, and post it as their own.
14 January 2008
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General Gaming
Phishing Gone Wrong
I love the lighter side of the news in the morning, Especially for things like this. By far this is the worst phishing attempt i’ve ever seen. This is why you should never ever
27 December 2007
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Blogging
Never keep sensitive information on your emails
If you haven’t been visiting your social media site because of the holidays then you’ve probably haven’t heard of David’s story. While on vacation (like most of us now), his site and ultimately
5 December 2007
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General Computing ,The Web
Protect yourself from malware
Malware vulnerability is on of the few reasons I stay away from my Windows PC when surfing the net. While some of these can be just common annoyances like tracking cookies or keyloggers,
5 October 2007
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General Computing ,The Web
The Storm superworm
No this isn’t a security bulletin but if you’re thinking that your computer is safe from viruses and malware, think again. What is Storm? If you’ve been seeing floods of emails and IM messages that try
23 September 2007
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General Computing
Vista vulnerable to old viruses
I found some rumors awhile back that there were some laptops with pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium comes laden with a virus. A friend email a picture to confirm that. The
16 September 2007
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General Computing
Microsoft Stealth Windows Update confirmed
There have been rumors in the tech world about the sudden update of some windows machines without permission from their respective owners. It has been said that even with automatic updates turned off,
7 September 2007
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General Computing
Testing your AV software
If you’re a little worried about how active your anti-virus software is why not test it? Creating an EICAR (European Expert Group for IT-Security) test file would be the easiest and the safest
31 August 2007
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Blogging ,General Computing
Storm Hits Blogger
And when we thought it the worst has passed. The ubiquitous Storm Trojan has found a new home ? on spam blog sites in Google’s Blogger network Careful whose blog you’re reading these days: Researchers have
10 August 2007
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General Computing
AVG detects Adaware 2007 as a threat?
And I thought seeing MS Anti Spy saying Firefox was a threat was weird. I’ll try downloading from Lavasoft’s site and try again but I doubt there will be any difference. Click the images to
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