Microsoft India Store was hacked earlier this month, Microsoft said at that time email addresses, passwords and shipping address of customers might have been exposed to hackers in that incident. But now it turns out that not only the above information but Credit Card details also might have been ... Read More →
German Federal Agency recommends Google Chrome
Google Chrome is the second most popular browser worldwide behind IE and just ahead of Firefox. It is one of the safest browsers out there. Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (Known as BSI in German Initials) recommends Chrome for Windows users in its best practice guidelines for ... Read More →
Google using a Bouncer to keep malware out of Android Market
Google revealed a security tool today codenamed Bouncer to address the malware concerns of Android market. the service performs set of analysis on new application, applications already in Android market and developer accounts. ... Read More →
Manage Passwords and Personal Info with Dashlane
There are several password managers out there for helping you to manage passwords and other personal information like credit card details. Password managers are quite useful for us now a days as we use several social sites, shopping sites and the likes, it is s real pain to keep remembering all ... Read More →
How to Protect Your Facebook Account From Hackers
Facebook is undoubtedly one among the most popular social networking services in the world. Millions of people around the world use Facebook to connect to their friends, family and also to make new friends. But, knowingly or unknowingly users give out a lot of information about themselves on ... Read More →
Microsoft Security Essentials rated high in Malware removal tests
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), the free anti-virus software released by Microsoft got good reviews so far. This is a free product and it may not have all the bells and whistles you get from the commercial products, but it scores good in malware removal tests conducted by AV-Comparitives tests. ... Read More →
30,000 Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and other email accounts hit by phishing attack
Over 30,000 email accounts including Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and other web mail services have been compromised by phishing attacks recently. Yesterday Neowin reported that around 10,000 Hotmail accounts were compromised due to phishing attacks, the details of these account usernames and passwords are ... Read More →
Critical JavaScript Vulnerability found in Firefox 3.5
Firefox 3.5 release came with a new JavaScript engine Tracemonkey for faster rendering of the JavaScript pages. But the release also has a critical vulnerability that lies in Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. Mozilla is working on a fix to patch the vulnerability. ... Read More →
Microsoft Security Essentials is available, download now
Microsoft Security Essentials, a free security software from Microsoft is available for download from today. This is a beta release of the software and the download is capped at 75,000, Microsoft may increase the download limit based on the demand, but if you want try the software download as soon ... Read More →
Microsoft Security Essentials: Free Anti-Virus Software from Microsoft
Microsoft used to offer a Anti-Virus suite called OneCare that got discontinued due to lack of interest, and then Microsoft announced that it will offer a free solution code named "Morro" for security in November 2008. Looks like finally Morro has come to life. Neowin.net obtained screenshots of the ... Read More →