Before winning the presidential elections, U.S. senator Barack Obama had pledged of strengthening the privacy protections needed in the high tech digital age. Well today, after about 16 months of being the President of United States, President Obama has still not taken a strong action for enhancing the protection across the digital world. Continue reading »
May 17
May 14
Fresh news from the online world! A group of researchers recently discovered a botnet which instead of using the personal computers uses the compromised Web servers in order to trigger a denial of service (DoS) attacks. On Wednesday, Imperva, a security firm stated that it had discovered the botnet ,of as many as 300 Web servers, whilst using “honeypot”, that is used to see hacker activity happening. The company discovered the new zombie DoS attack based on the search attack code with the help of Google. Continue reading »May 05
Whenever you find something enjoyable on the internet you are sure to find something else not far behind. Hackers have been a problem on the internet since day one. The “professional” hackers tend to target largely the biggest of internet companies, one of which these days is FaceBook. Continue reading »
May 04
It has happened to the most tech savvy of us all. You simply want to browse some applications, or read an article and you find yourself prompted to download this or that application just to view the material you are interested in. Continue reading »
Apr 29
It is common for antivirus software to even have its own problems with security. For McAfee this is a small set back. For personal computer users, this can mean the end of their computers life. If you are a private computer user this can be frustrating to say the least, but if you use your computer for business purposes, a crashed computer can be a prelude to a crashed business. Continue reading »
