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Zscaler Releases Zulu, Free URL Risk Analyzer

Zscaler, the leading security solutions provider, released a great free tool that allows even more inexperienced users assess the risks that may hide behind an apparently harmless URL. The project, called Zulu, its name being inspired by the ancient Zulu warriors represented by a citizens army, is a completely free ...

27 January 2012
10:22 GMT

Google Offers Translate Addresses

Translating whole pages from one language to another can give a bit of a headache to anybody that needs it, and accessing Google Translate can be time consuming at times. If you're a master of the keyboard, everything is easier done with the translation links below.All you need to do is type in http://www.google...

24 March 2008
04:48 GMT

Google Responsible for Hacker's Wrongdoings, McAfee Says

The wave of URLs that appeared to lead to Google, but were created by hackers for their devious deeds, has caught the eye of security company McAfee, and boy, were they mad about it. There's no way not to be upset when you see that fraudsters turn one of the Internet's symbols into a means of committing cyb...

21 March 2008
18:36 GMT

Did You Know There's Also an Address Bar?

I just love the way people don't ever pay attention where they are typing whatever it is they are typing. This is the way many passwords are revealed to the people around you and how it comes to be that you've just find that you can't use your account anymore. This actually happened to me, I didn'...

27 December 2007
04:09 GMT

Google Warns Us that T5 Is Here

It's not the Tier 5 in World of Warcraft and no, you've not been in cryogenic sleep for the past 4 or 5 years (better make that 20, you'll see why) and they haven't shot two more Terminator movies. It'd be difficult for that to happen, really, have you seen Arnold lately? He's turning i...

13 December 2007
04:27 GMT

Shorter Is Better, Phishers Believe

Everybody knows the phishing attacks are extremely dangerous for any Internet user, either protected or not, because they attempt to steal login credentials or bank information and use them in other malicious activities. Very often, a user can easily discover a phishing attempt, by analyzing the URL link. But, this ...

3 December 2007
04:40 GMT

Looking For Children Content? Oh No! It's Porn!

Typo-squatting has always been very dangerous for everyone on the web but nowadays it tends to become very popular as they target more and more famous domains. For those of you who are not familiar with the term, typo-squatting refers to a domain similar to a well-known one which attempts to attract the visitors that...

22 November 2007
06:24 GMT

GMail Links Allover the Place

I don't know for how long you've been an internet user, but if your experience goes way back to the '90's, you're in for a flashback, the sepia nuanced type. Google has brought back the feature that allows you to copy the address on top of your page as a sort of a permalink to it, whether it ...

19 November 2007
02:56 GMT

Google Search Used in Web Attacks

How does an email message look like? First, it's the subject of the message which usually tries to be very attractive, including popular terms such as drugs, watches or other advertised products. Then, there's the sender's email address which is often fake and created to look like a real one. The messa...

8 November 2007
05:35 GMT

Bulletproof Internet Explorer 7 Against URL Attacks

Microsoft has acknowledged scenarios where Internet Explorer 7 - running on top of Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Professional x64 and with SP2, as well as Windows Server 2003, the 32-bit and the 64-bit editions, both SP1 and SP2, along with Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or SP1 for Itanium-based Systems - provides fertile...

17 October 2007
08:29 GMT

Google URL Suggestions

Google's 'Did you mean' function became famous due to several weird suggestions which were long commented by the Internet users. Google always defended the feature saying it is only a technology which is based on users' queries so it cannot be blamed for irrelevant suggestions. However, Google has...

17 October 2007
04:41 GMT

New Alphabets For the Internet Domains

ICANN prepares some new goodies for Internet users from all around the world as the organization will debut a new test next week in order to implement Internationalized Domain Names on the web. In case you don't know its meaning, let me define this for you. What ICANN, which actually stands for the Internet Corp...

12 October 2007
04:55 GMT


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