Archive for 'Knowledge'
Phishing Scams in Plain English
Posted on 13. Feb, 2010 by Nikhil Sheth.
very year companies spend billions in upgrading and adapting to new technologies in order to spare them from being the victims of these new cyber crimes. Knowing how they are done is a great step towards not falling for them and it’s usually the difference between a victim and someone being spared. So, here is a [...]
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Tips for Digicam owners
Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by Nikhil Sheth.
Do you own a digital camera? Chances are, you do, because it seems like most everyone does these days. When you look at your digital camera, do you see all of the little icons on it? Yours probably looks different than everyone else’s, but somewhere on your camera, you should be able to find them. What [...]
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Scraping websites using YQL
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Nikhil Sheth.
We typically do lot of data scraping for various projects. We either use php functions or CURL for scraping data from remote websites. This involves reading remote url content, removing unwanted characters from it and then using regular expressions getting relevant data. While this is not that complex, it sometimes becomes too messy. So while exploring [...]
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2010 Threat Predictions
Posted on 30. Dec, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
McAfee, maker of computer security software, has released a report detailing their take on the threats computer users will face in 2010. As per the report, Adobe Systems’ Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010. Among its other predictions, McAfee expects more sophisticated attacks next year against social networking [...]
