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Three Upcoming Online Web Technologies That Work Offline
It is predicted that this year there will be a lot of ways to combine the offline and online entities.
Well, I can recollect one offline service I used to use which is Microsoft Outlook that would download all the mails so that I can read it later when I am offline.
A lot of such attempts [...]
Hackers Using Bhutto’s Death To Spread Virus
If you are looking for information about former Prime Minister Banazir Bhutto’s assassination, be very careful as hackers seem to taking this opportunity to spread viruses.
Hackers are fooling many users by circulating an “exclusive video” of the assassination which is actually a malware package.
This video mail started off just hours after Ms Bhutto’s killing.
Tags: codec, [...]
Christmas brings EmailWorm.Win32 Along… HO HO HO!
Apparently the hackers who came up with the storm botnet last time are back again with the Christmas specials!
This mail has some naughty Christmas spam which invites people to go to a site name merrychristmasdude.com containing a picture scantily clothed women!
The site offers a free download which contains a malicious program called EmailWorm.Win32.This in turn [...]
Spy Gadget : Smoking not so injurious to health
Technology not only brings some great innovations and imaginations to life but also some style and sleekness.
When I read about this product, it reminded of a secret agent like Sherlock Holmes and a techy hero like James Bond. A best gadget to spy if you are a secret agent or aspire to be one and [...]
Scientists use technology to beat terrorism before it strikes
Scientists in US are building a mechanized system that will help to detect terrorists even before they smack. This is being developed at the University of Buffalo.
This is how it works:The system would start following the behavior of a person during interrogation and create a baseline data of the individual.
Tags: Anti_Terrorism, Scientist_Technology, Terror_Attacks, University_of_Buffalo
Yahoo fights phishing
Yahoo is planning to combat “Phishing attacks” through emails with a new technology termed as domain keys.This technology which helps check authenticity of emails will be provided to yahoo mail account holders in the coming weeks. Read more about domain keys here
Tags: Anti_Phishing, Domain_Keys, Phishing, Yahoo
Microsoft Offers Internet Explorer 7 For All
It is interesting to know that Microsoft in an unprecedented move has offered IE7 to all users including those running pirated versions of windows OS.
The new version of the popular browser was released last year and until now Microsoft had restricted it to those who could prove that they had a legitimate OS.
Tags: Download, IE7, [...]
