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Category Archives: Internet Security
To Whom To Believe: Google Or McAfee?
I use McAfee suite on one of my computers. It has McAfee Site Advisor which should help with knowing which Web sites are safe and which are risky or dangerous. Today (April 2, 2009) I was surprised that McAfee warned … Continue reading
What Adware Can Do?
Read this interview and you probably will be scared. It is interview with Matt Knox. He talks about his early days designing and writing adware for Direct Revenue. Continue reading
Posted in Internet Security, Malicious Software, Threats, Vulnerabilities, Attacks
Tagged adware
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Tricked by Wrong PDFCreator Publisher
You probably need to print your files to PDF format sometimes. You can use Adobe Acrobat for this purpose, but it costs some significant amount of money. If your requirements are not to strong, you can use free open source version named PDFCreator.
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. Real PDFCreator Web site is: http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator. I have been using it for quite some time and it is really good tool. Easy to use and pretty fast, it satisfies most of my needs regarding creating PDF files i.e. printing to PDF from various programs which I use.
But there are some impostors on the Internet. So, be careful, very careful when downloading open source software, as many impostors use well known names and its variations to trick people and then to take many.
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Victoria Secret Competition Gets Hacked
In this article I tried to explain why we should not believe Internet polls and explained some of ways to cheat them. Here is one more proof: Victoria Secret competition gets hacked. Continue reading
Posted in Internet Security, Polls, Security
Tagged Perl Script, Polls, Victoria Secret
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Edgios or will new Google come from Serbia!?
Edgios is a large-scale distributed search ‘cloud’ that offers higher-quality search results. Users participate in the cloud by downloading the Edgios personal search software, and connecting that software to the net. Continue reading
Posted in General, Internet Security, Privacy, Security, Security Research, Software Security
Tagged Belgrade, Borislav Agapiev, cloud, Edgios, Google, large-scale distributed search, search, Serbia
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CfP ECRA Social Networks and Web 2.0
There is interesting call for papers for an Elsevier’s special issue of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications on Social Networks and Web 2.0. You can submit your manuscripts online. Papers will be reviewed and published depending of reviewers’ decisions. It will cover … Continue reading
StumbleUpon Privacy Risks
Be careful, be very careful when use social networking sites! Some social networking sites and some sites that pretend to be social networking, but are marketing profiling sites, may pose huge privacy risk. I will talk here about very popular … Continue reading
Should We Believe Internet Polls?
I think we should not. It is easy to cheat. If you want to know how, read bellow. You are aware of many Internet pools on various Web sites. I can remember days when having poll on you web was … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Security
Tagged Cookie, Internet polls, IP address, Privoxy, Tor, Vidalia
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Why Worry About Infected Routers?
“If your router is infected, it can take you anywhere… independently of what you type in the address bar, and you will think that you got to where you wanted to go.” See funny but educational cartoon about pharming and … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Internet Security
Tagged cartoons, geek dictionary, infected routers, pharming, security cartoon
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Browsers as Nests for Malware
Hackers target browsers as possible nests for attack to user systems. Having in mind average Internet users and surfers and their (our) lack of caution while surfing and visiting various Web sites, there are very good chances and possibility for … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Security, Privacy, Security
Tagged Adobe, browser, exploit, Explorer, Firefox, hook, Internet, Joanna Rutkowska, malware, Petko D. Petkov, plugin, rootkit
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