Computers & Technology > Email Threats How to protect your email and files on your computer from prying eyes

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Your e-mail can generally be read by approx. 8 persons:1) Your ISP (Internet Service Provider).2) Your mailserver's administrator3) John from the U.S. FBI4) Mailserver's ISP5) Recipient's mailserver ISP6) Recipient's mailserver administrator7) Recipient's ISP8) RecipientIn case you use the magic words "death to America or f* ... More..

Computers & Technology > Hacking Eleven tips to hackproof your wireless network

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Wireless, especially the extremely popular 802.11b protocol that operates at 11 Mbps and is nearly as cheap as standard Ethernet adapters and hubs, has taken root in the corporate world and grown like a weed. 802.11b came with much touted built-in encryption scheme called Wired-Equivalent Privacy (WEP) that promised to allow ... More..

Computers & Technology > Spyware & Adware How to remove trojans

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OK, you've got a trojan, but you have no idea how to deal with it. Trojans are the computer pests that usually disguise themselves as needed programs, but actually performs malicious tasks such as installing unwanted software, backdoors, etc. So a backdoor is the worst you can get - a program that will let someone else access... More..

Computers & Technology > Virus Protection & Maintenance How to remove a virus that takes over IExplorer

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Umm.. I'd like to start with "Does anybody still use Internet Explorer?". The statistics show that most people, including me, use Mozilla Firefox which has proved to be one of the most secure web browsers around.Situation:You do not have antivirus and Internet Explorer has been taken over by a virus and you can't open it to d... More..

Computers & Technology > Hacking The basics of vulnerability scans

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Lately vulnerability scans are being used by both - IT security auditing companies and attackers too. As there are many programs which can perform deep vulnerability scan everyone is able to do that themselves. A vulnerability scan on a remote computer, if not requested by the owner of it, is a criminal offence in some countr... More..

Computers & Technology > Hacking What to do if your computer gets hacked

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As a IT security expert myself, I've been through many security audits and I must admit that 90% of the systems I've tested were vulnerable to a well or less known exploit. Exploit is a piece of programming code which, when run, can either crash your computer or let the attacker access it.If your computer gets hacked, the fir... More..

Computers & Technology > Hacking How a denial of service attack works

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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are hard to stop because of the tactics the attacker (In this case called "Botmaster") uses. The most widespread tactic is to have a huge list of virus-infected computers. The viruses on the computers secretly connect to an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network specified in the virus c... More..

Computers & Technology > Hacking Can someone track your IP address?

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Simple answer - yes.A complicated one - Even if you're hidden behind lots of proxy servers - yes, but with a lot of difficulties.When you connect to the Internet, you are assigned an IP (Internet Protocol) address, which is a unique combination of numbers (for IPv4 addresses) or numbers and letters (IPv6 addresses; rarely use... More..

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