Phishing attacks have become the epidemic in the past few years. They usually involve fraudulent web sites and email scams that try to collect sensitive information from Internet users such as account names, passwords, and credit card numbers.
To combat phishing attacks, you must know how to spot a phony web site. However, without proper knowledge, [...]

Privacy and being anonymous on the Internet are large concerns and top priorities for many online users. For communicating anonymously on the Internet you use Tor. For secure communications, so that nobody can read your private information you use SSH. Combine both, and you have a secure and anonymous communication. In this hack, we’ll show [...]

As you may know, standard email is sent across the Internet as plain text, so that anyone with access to the Internet can read your private email and confidential documents. If you’re concerned about your email’s security and want to make sure that is read by its intended targets and absolutely no one else, this [...]

If you don’t have the time or wish to download, install and configure PGP-based software application for email encryption, there’s an easier solution available for you. HushMail offers a free, web-based email service that has a built-in support for PGP email encryption.
All encryption and decryption is done on-the-fly and completely transparent to you. You can [...]

Bluetooth technology is great. No doubt. It provides an easy way for a wide range of mobile devices to communicate with each other without the need for cables or wires. However, despite its obvious benefits, it can also be a potential threat for the privacy and security of Bluetooth users (remember Paris Hilton?).
If you are [...]

Suppose you need to access your email from an insecure environment, such as an open wireless hotspot or an airport. When using a public (insecure) network, the potential security risk is that your valuable data can be sniffed by bad guys.
While majority of free e-mail providers, such as Google GMail and Yahoo! do provide options [...]

Suppose you’re at an open wireless hotspot and wish to connect the Samba server from your Windows laptop, but you don’t want to send data (documents, authentication hashes etc.) over the air in plain text.
Using SSH tunnels, you can encrypt all your network traffic and redirect it through a trusted computer when you’re connected to [...]

When you tell Firefox to remember your user-name and password to a login service, it encrypts the access credentials and stores them in a database file in your profile directory. Yet, anyone can open Firefox’s password manager and view your secure login credentials.
In order to keep prying eyes out of your login information, one can [...]

Virtual memory is a truly great mechanism. It protects programs from one another and lets them utilize more memory than actually available. In a nutshell, you can think of virtual memory as an alternate set of memory addresses.
As you run more and more programs, at some point, you’ll begin running out of physical memory. Since [...]

Nowadays many web sites require you to type a user name and password before you can enter the site. One of Mozilla Firefox’s powerful features is the ability to save your passwords so you don’t need to type them in every time.
But how well Firefox protects your passwords? Apparently, by default, Firefox lets anyone view [...]