Web Security Review

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Privacy Eraser- they are programs developed to clear private date saved in your browser. These softwares help keep your information concealed and secured. Anything we do in our computer is saved and mapped over the memory. Stored in the hard drive for future use. All these slowly eats up precious system?resources, leaving less space for other things you need to do in your pc. The computer grows slower everyday.This is where the the Internet/Privacy Eraser comes in. It literally erases the stored temporary files, permanently deleting it so as to free up you hard disk space. Some softwares have plug-ins that comply with Defense standards. The eraser software offers useful tools that cleans the cache, cookies, browser history etc.

So you might want to try them out now, and free up that space that you so ever need.

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This is an alarming news, everyone. We all know about Youtube, right? Well, it’s dangerous as MySpace, FaceBook, or any online community now. Given that Youtube also allows “pg 13” stuffs, but that’s not the danger we’re talking about. That’s right. Some of the pages in Youtube have links that opens malicious machines into your computer. These machines have the ability to save your computer’s keystrokes, copies data, or even control your computer for another hacking scheme. Some people can separate the real and the fraud just by looking in the URL in the status bar, but it is much safer if you just search it in youtube itself. You know why? Some hackers make their preys open these links by making them their friends first. They just did this just because this is the time of election in the US, and youtube-users provide videos about the election, or their insight.

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VeriSign is known to be the leading secure sockets layer (SSL) Certificate Authority that enables secure e-commerce and communications for Web sites, extranets, and intranets. It is known to be a trusted mark of high assurance for Internet security. It enable the strongest SSL encryption made available to every visitor in the site.

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The first of its kind, the ZoneAlarm ForceField is a virtualized browser security service specially fitted to cater to the safety needs of online web surfing. Using a one-of-a-kind virtualization engine, it shields the computer and its sensitive data from internet threats like phishing, dangerous file downloads, and spyware.

It works by creating an exact replica of your computer’s digital identity. The replica also performs the same activities that you do but can take hits from the internet threats. Identity thieves, phishers, and other threats are outsmarted by the fake identity and are fooled into thinking they have hit jackpot when in reality, they have not.

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1. It actively searches for threats. Each week, it scans over 595 million websites. When it encounters a new high-risk threat, it automatically downloads real-time security updates without any intervention required.
2. It is quick to report attacks on websites or brands and also does a report on web server Achilles’ Heels. Part of the daily activities of WebSense is to watch the websites and brands so that any attack can reported immediately. It also conducts a search from a hacker’s point of view of any vulnerabilities in the web server.
3. It has industry-grade web filtering capabilities that are some of the most accurate and comprehensive in today.

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Based on the corporation’s own ThreatSeeker Network, WebSense Web Security Suite is a revolutionary solution to web security threats. WebSense Web Security Suite protects organizations, companies, and corporate from known internet threat attacks as well as new ones. Some of the threats that Web Security Suite protects against are bots, phishing attacks, spyware, malicious mobile codes, and keylogger backchannel communications. The suite also offers the Web Protection Services that protects organization or corporate websites, brands, and servers.

The difference that Web Security Suite has over the others is that it blocks spyware and keylogger backchannel communications from reaching their host servers. This innovative approach has revolutionized the front of combating internet threats.

According to Websense, there are a lot of reasons for spammers to favor using GMail:

“…that from the spammers’ perspective, there are four main advantages to this approach. First, signing up for an account with Google allows access to its wide portfolio of services. Second, Google’s domains are unlikely to be blacklisted. Third, they are free to sign up. And fourth, it may be hard to keep track of them as millions of users worldwide are using various Google services on a regular basis.”

There are actions made by GMail to fix this problem as they come up with different methods in preventing such scam. GMail has invited certain users to have their closed beta test to intensify their security system

If you are a Skype user and have been receiving anonymous spam messages inviting you to porn sites or whatnots, then this is the article for you. Even if these pesky bots are too irritating to deal with, fortunately for us, all we need are a few mouse clicks.

Just go to your preferences menu: Tools > Options for PC users or Cmd + , for Apple users, and go to the privacy tab. Just click on the radio button “Only people whom I have authorized” button to the “Allow instant messages from” option. And if you’re really in to it, why not click it for all the categories!

Let’s see if these spammers get past this trick! Just some note for reference, by enabling this feature, it will disable people that you haven’t added to message you. Add them up for you to be able to Skype away!

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Just now, AT&T Corporation has just released a highly technical network based security service that provides instant Web Security via advanced Web content and instant-message filtering. The new addition to their enterprise security portfolio is now available to several US companies as well as other parts of the world. Companies are enabled to conduct filters for malware and spyware without the need for bulky hardware or other software requirements through the new service. An additional feature is that AT&T’s Web Security is specially designed to monitor and watch all the non-encrypted traffic in the Web. Companies can merge the new service with existing AT&T security solutions or choose for the service to act independently.

The FBI, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Earthlink have jointly issued a warning on how the growing ranks of Internet crooks are using new tricks called “phishing” and “spoofing” to steal your identity.

In an FBI press release, Assistant Director of the agency’s Cyber Division, Jana Monroe says, “Bogus e-mails that try to trick customers into giving out personal information are the hottest, and most troubling, new scam on the Internet.

The FBI’s Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) has seen a steady increase in complaints that involve some form of unsolicited e-mail directing consumers to a phony “Customer Service” type of web site. Assistant Director Monroe said that the scam is contributing to a rise in identity theft, credit card fraud, and other Internet frauds.

“Spoofing,” or “phishing,” frauds attempt to make Internet users believe that they are receiving e-mail from a specific, trusted source, or that they are securely connected to a trusted web site, when that is not the case.

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