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                   As it is said that " Their is no match to human stupidity."  We always get excited when we get messages from the most know companies like GOOGLE, AMAZON, MICROSOFT, etc. We don't even think that this may be fraud.                       Here are the 10 ways through which you can identify that these messages are genuine or not. 1. Don't trust the display name of whom the email is from:                  Just because it says it's coming from a name of a person you know or trust doesn't mean that it truly is. Be sure to look as the email address to confirm the true sender. 2. Beware of urgency:                 These emails might try to make it sound as if there is some sort of emergency(e.g., the CFO need a $1M wire transfer, a Nigerian prince is in trouble, or someone o...

What is Web 3.0?         Web 3.0 is the 3rd Generation of the internet where the devices are connected in a decentralized network rather depending on server-based databases.                    The new internet is a user-centric, more secured, private and better.           History of Web....... 1st Generation or Web 1.0:  Web 1.0 began roughly in 1991: Attracted 45 Million users by 1996. This web was mostly bout presenting information and not creating it. The page used were static and the website owner was the only one who could change the content. Netscape navigator was a browser developed under the philosophies of Web 1.0. Developing web technologies required minimal scripting skills along with some basic HTML knowledge. 2nd Generation or Web 2.0:  This web was introduced a few years later from web 1.0 in 199 & reached more than 1 Billion people by...

                                                 F inancial institutions have financed the disruption of countless industries over the last 30 years; they have an idea of what a revolutionary technology can do to static incumbents.                         So, to stay ahead of change, banks have been proactive in setting up R&D labs, building test centers and establishing partnerships with blockchain developers to fully understand the revolutionary potential of the technology.  Financial institutions were the first to dip their feet in, but academia, governments and consulting firms have also studied the technology.  All of this work is, of course, in addition to what the entrepreneurs and developers are doing, either by finding new ways to use the bitcoin or ethereum blockchains, o...

What Is Cyber-crime?              Criminal activity that entails the use of a computer system, computer technology, or the internet. Types of Cyber-crime While the umbrella term of cybercrime covers a great many possibilities as to types of crimes, these are broken into several categories. In some types of cybercrime, a computer or other electronic communication device is used to commit the crime, and in other types of cybercrime, the computer or device is the actual target of the crime. Computer Viruses A computer virus is simply a small computer program that places copies of itself onto other computers without the users’ consent. The most common way for the makers of computer viruses to propagate their virus programs is to attach or embed them in emails. When the email is opened, the virus activates and does whatever it was programmed to do, such as steal valuable hard drive disk space, destroy data on the recipient’s computer, access per...

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? T he majority of web traffic is driven by the major commercial search engines. Google, Bing and Yahoo!. Although social media and other types of traffic can generate visits to your website. Search engines are the primary method of navigating for most Internet users. This is true whether your site provides content, services, products, information or just above anything else.                Search Engines are unique in that they provide targeted traffic-people looking for what you offer. Search engines are the roadways that make this happen, If search engines cannot find your site, or add your content to their database, you miss out an incredible opportunities to drive traffic to your site.               Search queries the words that users type into the search box-carry extraordinary value. Experience has shown that search engine traffic can make (or break) an organ...

Who is a Hacker? Excellent computer skills.  Intelligent individual with excellent computer skills, with the ability to create and explore into the computers software and hardware hobby. For some hackers, hacking is a hobby to see how many computers or networks he/she can compromise. 2.      Do illegal things. Their intent can either be to gain knowledge or to poke around to do illegal things. 3.      Malicious Intent.  Some do hacking with malicious intent behind their escapades, like stealing business data, credit card information, social security numbers, email passwords, etc. 4.      Hacktivism. Hacktivism is an act of promoting a political agenda by hacking, especially by defacing or disabling websites. The person who does these things is known as hacktivist. Ø   Hacktivism thieves in an environment where information is easily accessible. Ø   It aims to send a messa...

            On Tuesday many security researchers have reported a new wave of potentially destructive ransomware. This ransomware was known as Bad Rabbit. This malicious attack spread quickly across computer systems in Eastern Europe, including targets in Russian and Ukraine and has been detected in the United States.              This attack was barely showing its properties and its damage pattern was similar to the PETYA/NOT PETYA wiper attack that spread earlier this year.              According to the report generated by the Kaspersky.                Bad Rabbit is previously unknown ransomware family.                The ransomware dropper was distributed with the help of drive-by attacks. This happens when the target is visiting a legitimate website, a...