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How to Lock your Windows PC or Laptop with USB - Extra Security

Posted by Unknown Friday, 13 December 2013 0 comments

Do you want to add an extra layer of password security to your computer in your absence. Then you can try locking your computer with USB Lock. Yes you can use USB as key just like we use normal keys to unlock the keys.So you need need the USB drive to unlock the computer. You will be having access till the USB drive is present connected to the computer. It will be automatically locked if the USB drive is disconnected from the computer. This way you can add another layer of security to your computer.

In order to use lock your computer you need to get a software tool "Predator"Professional Edition here[official link] and Free Edition from Here[official link]
Choose the best suitable one depending on your operating system bit.

Step by Step Process for How to Lock PC with USB

After Downloading after Predator. Connect the USB Drive that you want to use as key to your computer.
And then run the predator installation.

Before continuing installation. A popup will ask you to create the new password, Enter your desired password and then hit on Ok to continue.

Now predator will present you a box with preference settings.

You can change settings as per your need and you can add the USB drive by selecting the drive under Flash Drive settings and hit on create key to generate a key on the usb which will be used by the predator to monitor.

When Predator is running on your computer you can see the predator icon in the taskbar as shown in below image.

And Predator offers one month free trail of the Professional edition which include sending of twitter messages to you and many more features.

How to Activate or Enable 2 Step Verification in Facebook in India

Posted by Unknown Friday, 6 December 2013 0 comments

As you know Google has taken utmost care of users by activating step 2 verification.Facebook also launched the two step verification before so many days to add a extra layer to the security to all it's users but problem is this feature is not available in all countries.If you are one who want to have more security to your Facebook then this awesome post is for you.

How Two Step verification works?

In normal verification process you will be asked password as-usual to give you access to your account. But where as in two step verification you will be asked for password and also the for the randomly generated code sent to you (to your mobile as text message or to your app ) so that even though the person who knows your password can't directly gain access to your account unless he/she get the random code sent you!

How to Add Step 2 in Facebook in India:

Facebook calls Two step verification as "Login Approvals". As this is not available in India we are going to make use of the proxies of other countries in which Facebook's "Login Approval" is launched!.

Need to Get Proxy of other Countries:

Here we are using proxy of United Kingdom as Facebook had launched login approvals in that country.You can choose proxy of any country where Facebook had launched this feature.

How to Change Proxy in your PC

You can change the proxy on your computer in different ways but here we suggest you to you change the proxies of your Firefox browser as reverting to previous settings is easy and you don't loose your default settings.

To change proxy settings on your Firefox browser open the Tools--->"Optiions'---->"Advacned" --->and then hit on "Settings"

After Connection settings on on your browser, check the option " Manual Proxy Configuration" and enter the prosy address in the HTTP Proxy and the port number.here in this tutorial we have use UK's proxy.

You can get the free proxies from www.HideMyAss.com choose the best proxy with with good connection speed.And note that using proxies for surfing is not good as your traffic can be monitored by the others on that network so please remember not use your Internet connection for making any transactions.
After saving the settings login into your Facebook account and open the "security settings" which is present in the "Account settings" you can open account settings directly from here [official] and security settings directly from here[official link].

As soon as you open the security page you can see the "Login Approvals" if you can't see there is something wrong in proxy..so try other proxy.
Click on the Login Approvals option.You will get a popup to get started as shown in below image.

Click on Get started to activate your mobile for Two Step verification on your account!.
If you want to setup your smart phone to receive the random codes generated.by Facebook app then select the "Android,iPhone options. or if you wan to setup with mobile sms then you can click on other option.

Here we are showing you on setting up mobile sms so we are choosing other option.
Select the "other" options and then hit on "Continue"
When you hit on continue button Facebook sends you a text message to your mobile registered with Facebook and asks you to enter the code received to your mobile number.

When You enter your number your account is activated and you can use the feature.

So when some one tries to enter into your account from the unrecognized browser with password. they can't gain access to your account. until you they get access to your mobile phone.

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That's it Guys I am sure it will helps you a lot.If you have any problem comment below we will you help out.finally don't forget to share this awesome and helpful articles with your friends.

How to Find Stolen or Lost Android Mobile Using Android Device Manager

Posted by Unknown Tuesday, 3 December 2013 0 comments

I am Sure this is Awesome post for Android lovers and will enjoy.Yes! This is something big.Now you can find your lost,Misplaced and stolen Android device easily without any third party apps.In our previous post we explained how to Trace your lost android mobile with some apps but Here in this post you don't need any app to find your device where it is. This is can done by simply using Android device manager.

Android Manger is one which it will get installed directly on your device when you use Google play for the first time.So you don't need to download any third party apps.

Nobody knows that they will lost their device if they know that they will keep them safe for sure so maximum of people don't install any tracking app to trace their lost device.For this people android device manger can work like miracle.

Some Advantages:

You can find your misplaced mobile or tab.
You can erase data in your device from any where
Helps you to trace your lost device.
Lock your device from anywhere.

How to use Android device manger to find lost device:

First thing you need to do is using your device navigate to security in settings and then to device administrator.
Now tap on it and activate if it is off.

Note: I suggest you to do this step right now because device administrator must be activate to take advantage of Android device manger.

Now go to Google Play Store.
You can find Gear icon at right side top. Just like in below screen capture.

Now Click on Gear icon then you can find three options My Order,Settings and then last Android device manager.Just click on Android device manager.

As soon as you click on android device manager it will find the device with which it is associated.
As soon as Android device manger find your device it will show you on Google maps. It will also indicate how far is your distance from you.

You can find 3 Options:

Ring: If you click on Ring then your device mobile or tab will ring though it is in silent mode.This feature fails when device is switched off.
Lock: If you click on Lock then it will lock your device and you can get new password to access your device.
Erase: If you click on Erase then total memory in that device will be erased automatically.Make sure once you click erase then all the data will be deleted including android device manager so it wont work again.

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That's it Guys I am sure this will help you a lot ! So don't forget to share it.If you have any problem just comment below we will help you out.

How to Block Ads in Google Chrome Firefox or in any Browser

Posted by Unknown Monday, 11 November 2013 0 comments

Internet has become a major part of our lives. We send emails, we download music, movies etc, we book tickets and what not? everything has become easy with the internet and almost everything is absolutely perfect with internet except for some of the issues like unnecessary and irritating ads in the web browsers. We open a website and boom! A meaningless and completely irritating ad appears on the screen and diverts your attention. Is not there any way to block these ads? Yes there is a solution for this problem.

For any web browser, there are a few simple steps to follow and yes you can block all the annoying ads!

Here, I will be showing it on Google chrome, which is also applicable for other web browsers too.There is an awesome web application, Ad Block or Ad Block Plus which can be installed on your web browser, that is Google chrome for example, in the Google web store.

Open the Google web store and search for Ad Block Here.( You can also use AdBlock Plus)

Click on the free installation.

After successful installation, you will get a message on the screen, that Ad block has been added to your web browser.

Now you can see the Ad block icon on your screen. click on it. The settings page will open.Click on the General button and make sure you select the "Add items to the right click menu" option.

Now move on to the filter lists and click on it. Here you can subscribe to the filter lists, which automatically blocks the ads without asking you. This makes your work easy. Click on update now. This updates the filter lists in periodic time intervals. Make sure you select all the options carefully. In the custom Filter lists category, you can add URL's of the websites which you visit often. You shall not be seeing any ads on the websites again.

I have just tried it and entered the URL link of Facebook. And when i checked my Facebook web page, there are no ads on it.

Now select the Customize button. This is mostly for advanced users, Where you are given a choice to block the ad by its url and hide a section of a webpage.

Now that you have installed the Ad Block, you can go to any website and right click on the screen. You will see the Ad Block option and you can place it on any ad you see and boom! You can shoot it out with no efforts.

This is available in Mozilla firefox,opera,Android phones as AdBlockPlus
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How to Avoid Phishing Attacks and Protect your Passwords Online

Posted by Unknown Sunday, 10 November 2013 0 comments

Many times we receive an email saying" you have won 10000$!" or you receive a text message on your phone which says " your number won in the lucky draw contest!" Many of us believe it and so we do everything they ask us to do, like giving away passwords and bank account numbers. But by the time we get to know that our passwords have been hacked, it is too late. This serious problem is termed as "phishing" which cyber criminals use to attack common users.

What is Phishing?

Phishing is a technique used by the cyber criminals who try to steal your important and private information by pretending to be someone or something you trust. For example, you get an email which seems to have been sent by your bank asking for your account details, but in fact it is indeed sent by a phishing expert. Though the email seems very real, it is actually sent by a cyber criminal to steal your account passwords. Phishing techniques have become extremely dangerous and sophisticated these days, since they accurately replicate the legitimate trusted source. For example, they will have a real logo, will use the same font and will seem to come from a real email address.

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Typical forms of phishing attacks:

1.Account upgrade, system maintenance, software crash or some other mundane reason.
2. Sms text message that seems as if your bank or relative or friend is trying to get in touch with you.
3. Instant message asking you for confidential information.
4.Private message on Facebook containing a link that may take you to a page that looks like a log-in screen for facebook, but actually is a fake log-in screen.

Here in the picture you can see a Facebook phishing attack. Check the URL bar, it is not the Facebook.com

There are a few simple things you can keep in mind in order to avoid the phishing attacks:

Your bank or credit card company shall never ask for your password under any circumstances.
If the email you have received contains a link, do not blindly click on it. It can be a fake link which may lead you to a fake log-in screen or executes some other phishing attack. Before you click on the link, you can find out where it is going to take you by holding your mouse over it for a few seconds and looking at the status bar of your browser.Below one is example of phishing.

You may receive an email with a link which looks real. Even if you hover your mouse over it, it replicates a trusted website. For example, Look at the following web address- https://www.facebook.com@www.abs123.com . At first glance this may look like the facebook link, but in reality it will direct you to a completely different address which begins separately after the @sign.

Always check for "https" in the url address bar of your browser, before you enter any confidential information on website. Typically, only trust worthy websites use "https" and phishing websites use "http".
Make sure that you read the url adress properly. Watch out for websites with spellings that are similar to the actual website. "online.citibenk.com" instead of "online.citybank.com". Cyber criminals are known to register website domain names with a spelling similar to a trusted website.

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A simple way to detect a phishing email is, you can carefully look for your full name mentioned in the email. Usually, the cyber criminal doesn't know your full name and may contact you by referring you with Sir, or your email address.
Most popular browsers like google chrome, mozilla firefox maintain a list of known phishing webistes and warn you when you are about to visit any phishing website that appears in their database.

If you receive a link and are not sure whether it is safe to click on it or not, you can however check if it is a phishing attach by submitting the website address to a site called PhishTank. This website maintains a comprehensive list of known phishing websites and provides a quick review if the website is trust worthy or not.

As you can see, the webpage of Phish Tank provides a bar, to specify any suspected link in it and checks for it. If you sign in or register with the website, you can submit any phishing link to the website and soon it updates the fake link.

Here, I have given a link in the bar, to check if it s a phishing attack. We click on the IS IT A PHISH button.

Phishtank has detected the link as a phish. It also provides a rating for 100%. If it is more than 50% you should not enter into the link.

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How to Protect My Facebook Photos Online

Posted by Unknown Friday, 8 November 2013 0 comments

Facebook takes utmost care of their users but we also need to take some care about our privacy.As all know that a coin has two sides the Facebook has also got both the good and bad people on it! I strongly say Think before you share anything on Facebook because some people on Facebook are making use of the images of other Facebook users for the bad things on online and offline usage.Continue reading..!!!!

The only thing we can do to protect our images on Facebook is setting the album privacy to only our friends!. But what about the people who had so many people as their friends! Watermark is a simple way to stop others from using your images for bad things.
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You might me be getting a doubt "Will this stop spammers and bad people from using images?"the answer to your doubt is It can't stop them the spammers and bad people from using your images but you can stop to some extent. Because most of the spammers want bulk amount of images downloaded which are not watermarked and then use them for their work,as they don't want to waste time on editing your images!. This way we can stop the spammers from using the images to some extent.

Here we are going to show you how to watermark your Facebook images with DMCA

What is DMCA?

DMCA is the short-form of Digital Millennium Copyright Act. DMCA helps the original copyrighted holder to protect their work from being used by the other people.The work can include blog content, videos, pictures, websites, games.
DMCA also lets you to file a case in complete legal way against those who copied your work!

Here is How to use DMCA tool to watermark the images.

First register an account with DMCA from Here.

After completion of registration Facebook watermark tool from Here.
Now Authorize DMCA to get the images from your Facebook profile by clicking on "Get Facebook Albums'

After grating the access to get the images, select the albums from dropbox menu.

Hit on Watermark this Album.and you are done. that's it all your images will be watermarked with DMCA logo.
In order to remove the DMCA logo and add your own logo you need to upgrade your plan to monthly to yearly.

How to Trace your Lost or Stolen Laptop

Posted by Unknown Thursday, 7 November 2013 0 comments

Did you ever loose your personal laptop? Now-a-days all the important information is being stored in the personal or office laptops. Once they are stolen, everything is gone. Some people may also loose their jobs because of this issue. If you are worried about loosing your laptop or it getting stolen, you have to install a tracking device on your device so that you can trace it back if it goes missing.

Prey is an open source app that allows you to keep track of all your electronic devices(laptop,tablet and mobile phones). Once you install pray on your laptop, it will silently run in the background and will wait to receive a signal through the internet from you. trace it When you have lost your laptop, you can log in to the web interface of pray from anywheretrace it in the world and send a signal to your laptop. Once the signal is received by the Prey software on your laptop, it will allow you to perform the following actions,all remotely through the internet.

Features of Software:

1. Show the location of your device on a geographical map.

2. Take photo of the person using your device using the inbuilt camera.

3. Lock down your laptop so that it cannot be used.

4. Take a screenshot of your computer screen to find out more information about who is using your laptop. For example you may be able to capture the email account and facebook account that the user is logged into.

5.Set off a loud alarm on your missing laptop.

6. Display an alert message on your laptop screen with the text of your own choice.

7. Erase all saved passwords and history.

After completing the above steps, you can seek the help of police to trace down your laptop. But for all this, you need to install the prey software on your laptop. You can download it from the website.

After downloading the software, start the installation wizard. Select the Configuration Prey Settings. Click on New User.

Enter your contact details and click on the create button in order to create your Prey account and add your devices to it.

Log into your email account to verify your identity by clicking on the link sent to you by the Pray Project.

Once you activate your account, Prey will start working and tracks your laptop when it is lost or stolen. You can login to your web control panel and manage all the settings.
To manage the tracking settings related to a specific device, simply go to the Prey Control Panel. This page will allow you to specify what actions can be performed in case your device is stolen.

Click on Save Changes button once you complete the settings. In case your device goes missing, log in to the prey website, open the control panel change the status from OK to MISSING. After a few minutes, You will receive a detailed report about your missing device from the Prey Project.

This report may contain a bunch of information related to your missing device.

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How to Send Email with Password Protection in Gmail Yahoo and Outlook-Encrypted mails

Posted by Unknown Saturday, 2 November 2013 0 comments

Privacy on Internet in becoming so tough with the some Government laws in these days, Even some big companies which say that they are give high importance to their privacy are also bending to the Governments.

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And there are some E-mail providers like Gmail who track the emails of their users to serve the targeted ads to them. So if you would like to tighten the security of your Emails then there are some best tools available on Internet which can help you to send the encrypted emails.
Before you start using these encryption software you need to know some basic about some terms which are often used.
Public Key: This is used to encrypt the data or message. You can share this key with any one.
Private key:This key is used to decrypt the encrypted message. This key should be kept screct. In other words this key is just like your password to access the message.

Mailvelope:

Mailvelope Is one of the best encryption email service tool, which you can use it any where and protect your Emails from others spying on you.
I love using Mailvelope because it works on all the three major email providers which are Gmail,Yahoo mail and OutLook and also GMX( I don't use this service regularly).
Mailvelope is a open-source tool where any one can contribute to it. Mailvelope uses the OpenPGP encryption to safeguard your email.

Mailvelope is having a great and simple user interference. Sending Encryption mail using mailvelope is dead easy where even a small child can use it. And the best feature we love on mailvelope is no copying of the encrypted text or message from the email you received into mailvelope to decrypt the text or message.Mailvelope integrates directly into the user interference of almost all the web mail services.

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Note:Before sending the mail to the person you need generate a key in the MailEvlope Settings.

Download Mailvelope:

Right Now Mailvelope is available as Chrome Extension you can get this from Here and for Firefox the Mailvelope is in testing stage.(At the time of writing this). You can also try it by downloading the add on from GitHub Download Link:

Sendinc:

This is a web based email service to encrypt the data. Sendinc uses the 256 bit Encryption code to safe guard your emails.This encryption is usually used by E-Commerce and Banking sites.In this web based email service your message is first encrypted with 256 bit encryption and sent to the SendInc Data centers so even the SendInc can't access your message on there servers as it is encrypted.SendInc then generates the Encryption key and sends to the recipients in the form of Link in your emailing list.When they click on that link they are redirected to other page where they can enter the password to decrypt the email.

SendInc also lets you to also encrypt the attachments in your email. In basic you can get encrypt upto 10MB of attachments.If you want to encrypt more amount of data then you need to get a paid plan from SendInc.
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