Hacked Info

Believe it or not, almost 12,000 laptops are lost by business travelers every week. This means that software, hardware and any kind of sensitive information that may be crucial for business could be in the hands of fraudsters. To secure the user, there are alarms, laptop locks, stickers and labels that have been developed. Mere [...]

For all those awaiting the launch of Windows 7, there’s more good news. Microsoft has offered to users extension of the 30-day trial period to 120 days, without an product activation key. The activation key is usually an alphanumeric composition of 25 characters. This means that the “slmgr-rearm” command that counts the 30-day period can [...]

Internet is a behemoth, cutting across physical country boundaries and accessible to anyone and everyone from any corner of the world.  Precisely due to this pervading nature, Internet is not under full control of any government or body, though there may be specific rules and regulations pertaining to individual websites.  A behemoth at large and [...]

The newest application launch from the Google stable is appropriately named the “Google Latitude”, an add-on feature on Google Maps, which lets friends, colleagues or family members to announce and keep track of each others’ locations on real time basis.  The location coordinates are extracted from mobile phone towers to which the mobile phone of [...]

Cyber attacks can come from anywhere in the world and the attacks can be orchestrated by few individuals. Also, it is not expensive to organize and implement an attack by the criminals. Cyber attacks as a means of crippling governments have not yet reached alarming proportions, but the prospect of such concerted and coordinated attacks in the future can not be wished away.

No, in fact those CNN e-mail alerts that you are receiving these days are not CNN alerts at all!  It is another clever ruse of the criminals to (mis)use the CNN tag to infect your computer. It has been reported recently by RSA Security that there is a new form of phishing e-mail which purport [...]

With the increasing number of wi-fi home or small office networks mushrooming all over the place, the hackers are having a field day.  The hackers break-in at will and carry out their nefarious activities resulting in immense problems. The basic reason for hackers’ break-in to wi-fi networks is that most of the wi-fi networks are [...]

Hi-tech cyber criminal crimes have been growing in alarming proportion through the past many months.  One of the companies combating cyber crimes, Sophos, says that “more than 20,000 new malicious programs a day” are seen in the cyber world.  Symantec has proclaimed in 2008 that their anti-virus software now provide protection against over a million [...]

It is said that Google sandbox is the search engine optimizers’ worst nightmare.  A webpage with high initial ranking in Google search results is suddenly dropped down to the last pages for no apparent reason! The impact is severe – visitors to the site, most of them come through Google, reduce to a trickle, the [...]

Microsoft has been working for some time now on developing yet another edition of their popular Windows operating system for PCs, called the Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) after introduction of it’s not too popular Windows Vista some time back.  Microsoft is endeavoring to make the latest version much more user friendly on [...]