Today, Facebook announces the launch of phish@fb.com, an email address available to the public to report phishing attempts against Facebook. Phishing is any attempt to acquire personal information, such as username, password, or financial information via impersonation or spoofing.
By providing Facebook with reports, we can investigate and request for browser blacklisting and site takedowns where appropriate.In some cases, Facebook will be able to identify victims, and secure their accounts.
You might ask yourself how to spot suspected phishing emails. Facebooks Partner at the
Anti-Phishing Working Group have put together some helpful tips to avoid being deceived by these messages:
1. Be suspicious of any email with urgent requests for login or financial information, and remember, unless the email is digitally signed, you can't be sure it wasn't forged or 'spoofed'
2. Don't use the links in an email, instant message, or chat to get to any web page if you suspect the message might not be authentic or you don't trust the sender, instead navigate to the website directly
This new reporting channel will compliment internal systems they have in place to detect phishing sites attempting to steal Facebook user login information. The internal systems will notify faceboook team, so that they can gather information on the attack, take the phishing sites offline, and notify users. Affected users will be prompted to change their password and provided education to better protect themselves in the future.
As a reminder, you can visit
www.facebook.com/hacked if you think your account may be compromised
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The
latest file sharing protocol bittorrent has modified everything when
it comes to file sharing. It is a nice platform for downloading large
files. Sharing of files include movies, iso images and MP3 songs.
Bittorent is mainly famous for illegal file sharing .
As more and more people get quick connections to the internet, such as
cable or ADSL, it becomes apparent to the user of a simple dial-up modem
that the World Wide Web can quickly turn into the World Wide Wait. Here a
trick that can help speed up your current modem without shelling out the
big bucks.
Small portable computing devices such as Netbooks and MIDs (Mobile
Internet Devices) offer great mobility, but they lack optical drives
(CD/DVD). An optical drive is important when you need to install
software from a CD or DVD. An external optical drive would work, but you
may not want to lug it around with you. So what’s the solution? Use a
USB flash drive as a bootable installation media:
1: Run portable applications
There are several significant security improvements in the Windows 7
operating system, including tools that improve network security,
privacy, parental controls and even integrated protection from malware.
But even with the heightened security, a separate antivirus software
or internet security suite is a must-have. Microsoft admits that the
built-in OS security is only the first line of defense, and they
certainly encourage users to install additional security software from a
third-party. So of the scores of security software apps available
(almost all of which now support the new OS), which is the best antivirus for Windows 7?
Why
is it important to know how a computer works? Easy, if you don't,
it will be hard to control. Computers were never built to control
us even though that is how it appears. Their creation was just another
tool God gave man to use to benefit society. What can you do to learn
more about computers?
I have an easy answer. Just read, and use computers more. They
are not that hard and with time you too can become the master over this
tool.
Google's latest PageRank Update August 2 2012, which has just been rolled out
1). Start any application, say Word.
Open some large documents.
There are many complaints regarding the theft of photos from facebook mainly
photo of girls.How to avoid the theft of photos