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To protect yourself from phishers, there is an easy way that offers reliable phishing scams detection. Netcraft is one. It focuses on tracking down online technology. It is a toolbar available in Internet Explorer and Firefox. And it has a great community for user support. It protects you from phishing attacks. Another tool bar that offers phishing protection is the Yahoo Toolbar. You can rest assured your Paypal and eBay accounts are safe. And the number one way of prevention of phishing attacks is by doing away with greed. Greed for money or to make lot of them makes our senses lose its focus and we tend to separate ourselves from the reality. The phishers use this fault to get past our common sense. Check you emails and read them carefully. Analyze the content. If its too good to be true then don not at any time entertain or respond to it. It is best to check on the main website of an account or bank rather than clicking on the links provided in the email, if you get important advisories from your accounts. There is no gold at the end of the rainbow and certainly, you will not win a lottery if you did not buy a ticket in the first place. So beware and never put your greed in the front.

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Remember what your computer teachers or anyone good enough, told you not to tell your “secret words” (Meaning, not just your passwords) to anyone? Well, some hackers send malicious softwares or malwares to capture your keystrokes, copy your precious data, or even control your computer to hack another person. Okay, maybe you know about that too, and even the “hackers use websites for these purposes” thing. But! Did you know that Youtube is not that different from these sites? That’s right. Youtube has these links, and you might just open these things since these links looks trust worthy, and your “friend” sent this link. In short, Youtube is not different from Myspace now. Well, to save yourself from these hackers, just use the search engine in Youtube, or if the link is not in youtube, copy the link and paste it to yahoo or google, and their protection might show the true face of that page. But if you think that its such a hassle, then just don’t open it.

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Google is now adding Web security for net surfing and remote workers to its Google Apps set of office tools. Google Web Security for Enterprise comprising real time malware protection and URL filtering with policy implementation and reporting and this was made possible by Postini, which was last year’s acquisition of security vendor. There is an additional feature that extends the same protections to users who works remotely on laptops in cafes, hotels, restaurants and guest networks. This allows companies to protect their networks from Web-based malware , implement internet use policies at the user, company level and workgroup, and Google Web security will receive comprehensible reporting on all web activities.

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McAfee and Yahoo announced their partnership on Web’s security wherein Yahoo’s search engine is making available to users the warnings about unnecessary and malicious code on Web sites that will be detected through McAfee’s security technology. McAfee calls the technology, SiteAdvisor and this has been integrated into Yahoo’s search engine mechanism making a user, after performing a search, obtain the flagged sites after clicking “searchscan.” However, no Yahoo advertisers will be picked up and flagged in the SiteAdvisor. The yahoo security warning system does not block users from accessing the page but will recommend to avoid the flagged content. With all this preclusion of users from visiting malicious websites, yahoo will lessen the channels obtainable for spam, adware, malware and phishing to spread.

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The substantial SQL injection attacks that struck Microsoft-based websites claimed as one of its victims Autoweb which is a U.K. based advertising and marketing site. The continuous attack that hits Autoweb exploited susceptibility in a single line of code in the web application to cut through the company’s Microsoft SQL database and knock the site offline. Autoweb’s IT staff then realized that database tables which stores content provided by car dealers had been overwritten with a 30-character script and that gave them a window of opportunity. Autoweb blocked the attacks by looking at log files which originated from IP addresses in China. Autoweb did an everyday backing up and asked assistance from Secerno, a U.K. based firm to build a database security appliance.

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ScanSafe offers a “Web Security as a Service” when report presents state of global information security threats. This offer by ScanSafe provides a managed service which means that there is nothing for customers to install or maintain on-premise, routing its clients’ web traffic by secure proxies to scan content in real-time that will secure them from malware and also give a way for them to impose acceptable web usage policies. They were able to scan more than 80 billion web requests and blocked more than 800 million web threats in 2007 on behalf of corporate customers in more than 50 countries. And password stealing malware was the most frequent type of attacks in the blocked events which was about 37% of total attacks.

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When you connect to the internet, IP address will be used to identify your PC which means that your IP address is public. So if you do not use security, your IP address will be used to access your computer from the outside world. Bad news is, if you have a fixed IP address, internet crackers can have a lot of time to search for entrances in your computer and have access to your unprotected private data. But if you are using a modem with a dial-up connection, you will get new IP addresses each time you connect to the net. DSL and internet cables are mere samples of fixed internet connections.

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Bad news is, many Microsoft Window users are not aware of common security leaks in their network settings. The common setup for Microsoft Windows’ network computers is: Client for Microsoft Networks, NetBEUI Protocol, File&Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks, and Internet Protocol TCP/IP. But if your setup allows NetBIOS over TCP/IP, you can have a security problem because this means that your files can be shared all over the web world; and that your log-on name, computer name and workgroup name will be visible for public viewing. Also, if your setup allows File and Printer Sharing over TCP/IP, this also means that your files can be shared all over the net. And it doesn’t mean that you’re safe if your computer is not connected to any network. It can also have dangerous settings because your network settings were changed during the time when internet was installed.

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RSS was only known before as a “techie tool” but has now grown at a lightening speed and has become a tool that is continuously being utilized by the general population. RSS’ security has been questioned as it gains enormous popularity. But RSS’ podcasting phenomenon is where its vulnerabilities lie. RSS can be used in distributing file types like word documents, images, mp3 files, etc which can be a root of concern although most people may not feel that the risk is significant. They think that by choosing the content that they receive in their mails, security should not be something to be worried about, which is quite wrong. The danger lies in the mere fact that lots of RSS readers, pod-catchers or news aggregators automatically download information contained in the enclosure field despite its file type or source.

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