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You can’t really have full privacy. Check out this article on Hushmail diverging information to the US police in handing over emails for court persecution purposes. Sigh.

Let’s start the day by identifying mails you should ignore. Just received this 2 days ago with the header ‘Please update your account informations before 30 september 2007 for your security‘. Whoops, it’s already 1st October! For Education Purpose Only Opened the mail for fun (and educational purpose, else the usual these type of mails [...]

This is brought to you by SwapGold.com Short and sweet. Be aware of them. Don’t slack on security. Always keep all security softwares updated. Don’t mistype the e-currency Web site addresses. Phishing sites are waiting for their victims there. Use real info to register accounts, because companies may block accounts and ask for ID verification. [...]

Firefox has just released version 2.0.0.6 with the below mentioned security fixes, MFSA 2007-27 Unescaped URIs passed to external programs MFSA 2007-26 Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows Update your Firefox now if you have not received any prompt for the update by clicking ‘Help‘ and ‘Check for Updates..‘

Firefox 2.0.0.5 has been released. No new features, but it’s best that you do the update for security sake. From release notes: Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.5 MFSA 2007-25 XPCNativeWrapper pollution MFSA 2007-24 Unauthorized access to wyciwyg:// documents MFSA 2007-23 Remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer MFSA 2007-22 File type confusion due to [...]

Thanks to Jose for the recommendation on NoPonzi Blog. Check out his post here on this free open source data encryption software, TrueCrypt. If anyone’s a tech geek, TrueCrypt uses SHA-1, Whirlpool or RIPEMD-160 as hash algorithm for encryption. Yeap, and it supports Linux, XP and Vista as well. Who says good things have to [...]

If you haven’t been prompt by your Firefox to upgrade, click on ‘Help’ and ‘Check for Updates’. Firefox 2.0.0.4 has just been released. Security Fixes in 2.0.0.4 MFSA 2007-17 XUL Popup Spoofing MFSA 2007-16 XSS using addEventListener MFSA 2007-14 Path Abuse in Cookies MFSA 2007-13 Persistent Autocomplete Denial of Service MFSA 2007-12 Crashes with evidence [...]

Since we have nothing much to update lately on the happenings of the HYI arena (apart from sad E-gold updates and crumbling ponzis), we’ll touch more on the security of your PC. So there are people who pay for antiviruses and those who don’t. What’s the difference anyway? Why pay should the free ones be [...]

Here’s something interesting. I know most of our readers are ardent Mozilla Firefox fans (over 62%, astonishing), myself inclusive, but lately because of Vista upgrade that I did a month ago, Internet Explorer is creeping back slowly to my life.. Let’s see You love tab browsing Yes, I love tab browsing, and that’s the main [...]

This entry has been re-surfaced (a 2005 entry) for readers to update. Feel free to add some suggestions into the list or even comment on the software mentioned. I’ll make this *sticky* Browsers Mozilla Firefox Version 2.0.0.3 (Latest) Opera The reason being 99% malwares & spywares aims your Internet Explorer (the one that comes with [...]

ePanama is our newest blogger! Mark’s first article, about WebMoney, is below. However, there is a second article at his blog, Digital Money World, today that you should read, also. There are new rules for any site accepting credit card payments. It doesn’t matter if the site owner is huge, like Amazon, or a mom-and-pop [...]

And if you haven’t received any prompts from Firefoxto upgrade to version 2.0.0.3 (Which shouldn’t be the case) In Firefox, Click on Help -> Check for Updates Release notes for Firefox 2.0.0.3 if you’re interested in the security fixes they’ve covered. Interesting statistics, 54% of our readers use Firefox

WOW! I knew that Registerfly was in serious trouble when I wrote my first article about them. ICANN made it official on Friday, March 16, 2007. Registerfly is no longer accredited to do domain registrations. I thought about writing a long post describing what has all happened, but others have it written much better. In [...]

Leo, DrunkOnLife Blog, has an excellent tip on hiding your IP address using a proxy server. Since he’s moving his blog soon, I’m going to copy the post here: This said, there are ways to protect yourself (and your ip address). Two words- Proxy servers. What are proxy servers? Well, quite simply, they are sites [...]

In the past few days I’ve seen people posting their email address in comments. I’ve been editing them out for safety reasons. The authors of this blog do post their email address from time to time, but we know and accept the risks involved. Often posters in comments are not aware of the risks. So, [...]