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Phishing email (or Spoof email or Hoax email) attempts to fake appearance of popular website and businesses for stealing personal information.
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Trojan horse is program that tries to fool user by appearing to be a useful program while actually doing damage to the computer. Unlike Virus, Trojan does not replicate itself. It can perform destructive activities such as allowing backdoor entries to other malwares, monitoring and sending activities to third parties, infecting files, and even allowing complete remote access to someone else. Read More »
Computer Viruses are programs which can copy it and infect the computer and other programs. Virus authors and antivirus software try to defeat each other. Here are some of the ways viruses use to defeat antivirus software Read More »
Spyware is software that gets installed on computer without users consent. Spyware can cause harm by taking partial control of computer and by compromising privacy. Spyware can collect personal information such as browsing habits (primarily for marketing purposes) and sensitive information such as credit card number. Spyware can also take control of computer and install additional software, redirect to malicious website and install virus. Read More »
Pretexting is a criminal method of acquiring private information by pretending to be a legitimate authority and is primarily done over the phone. Pretexter can then sell this information or use this for identity theft. Read More »
Zero day exploit is taking advantage of security vulnerability before it is known and fixed. Hackers are becoming faster at exploiting vulnerabilities and takes advantage of time needed to know vulnerability, fix it and distribute the fix. Attackers can use this time to spread malwares such as viruses, worms etc. Read More »
Firewall is a software application that controls incoming and outgoing network traffic for computer. Personal firewall is targeted for End users and typically protects one computer.
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Computer worm is a program that replicates itself on the network and can be a real system hog. Worm can penetrate the network by using security vulnerability in the operating system or by opening a malicious attachment or link in an email message or chat session. Read More »
Anti-virus software is a computer program that works to keep computer free from virus and other malicious programs. There are multiple approaches, antivirus software use to identify viruses.
Dictionary method –In this method Anti virus program continue to match programs with the pre-identified virus definitions and then take appropriate option (quarantine or delete the infected file). New viruses are included in the dictionary as identified. Success of this method is based on how quickly new threats are identified and included in the dictionary. Read More »
A Cookie (Also called Internet Cookie, Web Cookie, Website Cookie, Web browser Cookie or Cookie preceded with other internet related term) is a small text file that website can store on user’s computer to store personal information such as Name, user id, preferences, user actions etc. The primary purpose of cookies is to use this information to enhance user experience on repeat visits.
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What is JavaScript? Java script is Object Oriented scripting language that can add dynamic functionality in html pages. Scripting languages are high level programming languages that are interpreted at run time as compare to system programming languages (Such as C or Java) that are already compiled.
For example, all the Google ads that you see on websites are JavaScript code. Dynamic nature of the code produces ever changing targeted ads on WebPages. Read More »
As we know https is more secured, why do websites use http anyway?
One reason is that https cost more. Another reason is it slows down the website since it encrypts and decrypts every communication a web user sends or receives.
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HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) is a secured communication protocol between web browser and web server. You can say it is secured HTTP (think of ‘S’ in HTTPS as secured) protocol. Read More »
