I recently bumped into this fantastic post on LifeHacker: Beef Up Your Password by Memorizing a Few Key Codes, which has opened my eyes towards securing my passwords. In this era of keyloggers, there is an easy way to “trick” these keylogger trojans by using something which already existed since the day Windows was born. It is by using Special Characters, which one can “generate” by using “Alt” key along with numbers.

These characters are less frequently included in brute force …

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Yes, you read it right. Scientists claim that your online photos may help someone extract your friendships! As reported by ScienceDaily on Dec. 9, Cornell University computer scientists have, after comparing locations of photos posted on the Internet with social network contacts on Facebook, Flickr etc., found that as few as three “co-locations” for images at different times and places could predict with high probability that two people posting photos were socially connected.

What the heck it means to the common …

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This is a guest post by Hungama.

I have been blogging since last few months now. I have fair understanding of what needs to be done to make a blog popular, what and how much efforts go into marketing the blog, etc. When I first started with building my site, I was sure that I wanted to build a site where I will post everything that is humorous, funny, and weird. I have reasonable amount of content with me, and I …

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DID YOU KNOW following facts about COUNTING in English language?

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ & ‘d’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99.
(Letter ‘d’ comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999.
(Letter ‘a’ comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999.
(Letter ‘b’ comes for the first time in Billion)

And Letter …

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<< Another SPAM EXAMPLE

Here is one example of such a online spam. When you click on this authentic-looking link, you would be taken to some strange spamming site…

Please SPREAD the word. Note that YAHOO and any other email service provider (like Hotmail, Rediff) WILL NEVER contact you with this type of information. DO NOT encourage spam and DO NOT click on any link in an unknown email… If you do so, you may lose all your precious data to …

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