security

U.S. Government’s Shallow Attempt at Social Media Infiltration

March 22, 2011

Last week, many online publications broke the news that the U.S. Government had signed a contract with technology company Ntrepid. To summarize the reports, Ntrepid is tasked with creating software that allows U.S. personnel to manage up to 10 online personas. These personas would exist within the confines of social media websites like Facebook and Twitter, but would include convincing and comprehensive back-stories. These profiles would not be used domestically by the government, but would ...

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How to Use Facebook Safely : Fb Security Tips

March 1, 2011

We have talked a lot about Facebook safety in the past and one of the easiest way to keep yourself secure online is by knowing how do hackers hack. I’m extending ShoutMeLoud Facebook security tips by adding some useful tips to use Facebook safely. Before we move ahead, I recommend you to read Harsh guide on How to secure Facebook account, which will give you some extra safety tips. Online predators, possible employers, bullies. These are ...

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Google Enhanced Security with 2 Step Verification

February 10, 2011

Security has always been a concern to all the people who work online. Gmail being one of the most popular Free Email service comes with Google Enhances security in the form of 2 step verification. Security is major concern when we work online. We use different methods to keep ourselves secure like using a complex password, using antivirus, Trojan remover, HTTPS encryption and so on. Gmail went ahead by adding 2 step verification method to ...

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What is Phishing and Phishing SafeGuard Methods

December 2, 2010

Few days back I have read an article by Mahesh at shoutmeloud on how do hackers hack your passwords. This was a good informative post for every one which helps in protecting your self from getting your password hacked. I had got hacked when my orkut account was hacked by this method. After reading the article I was interested to write one of the many methods used in hacking. That’s phishing. There are many other ...

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How do Hackers Hack your Passwords?

November 28, 2010

Many of you might have been victims of your email accounts being hacked, or your Facebook password not working. This maybe because your password might have been hacked by the Hackers. One way to keep your self secure is by knowing how do hackers hack password and what all methods and software’s they generally use. By knowing how hackers can get into your account, you will be in better situation to understand what are the possible ...

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How to Protect Your Online Identity

September 24, 2010

This is guest post by TechMaish.com, you can also write for ShoutMeLoud, Read ShoutMeLoud guest blogging guidelines. One of the most sensitive issues one can ever come across and should be aware of his/her online identity, even a common lay man using the computer for the very first time should be aware of this sensitive detail at all times. Usually when we are browsing the net, we come across different and very attractive sites that ...

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AVH First Defense Against Spam WordPress plugin

September 10, 2010

Is your blog getting high traffic. Are you getting thousands of spammers on your wordpress blog ? You might be wondering after so many blogs on Akismet & other antispam plugins why I am writing this blog ? Reason is to make webmasters aware that these spammers not only throng your blog for spamming, but also eat up your server’s bandwidth & increase your CPU cycles. Moreover if you keep track of how many visitors ...

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Protect any PHP/MySQL site from Spambots and Hackbots

August 16, 2010

Ash has already shared a useful WordPress tutorial earlier, if you have missed it, Do read: Supercharge your WordPress blog in one hour. If you run a PHP/MySQL site, forum, CMS, or blog and want to keep hackers and spambots from filling up your content with spammy posts or comments, then keep reading. If you like free solutions, then keep reading. ZB Block is a free script from the famous Zaphod, who has been active on Usenet ...

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