Dealing with Phishing

                                        What is Phishing and how to avoid it?

        Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames,passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.(Wikipedia)

In a phishing attack,an attacker creates a dummy web site that appears to be identical to a legitimate web site in order to trick users into divulging private information.When a user visits the fake site,he is presented with a page that appears to be an authentication page for the legitimate site.On submitting their user name and password,however,the malicious site simply records the user’s now-stolen credentials,and hides his activity from the user either by redirecting him to the real site or presenting a notice that the site is “down for maintenance”.Most fishing attacks target the financial services industry,most likely due to the high value of phihshed information related to financial transactions.

Phishing typically relies on the fact that the user will not examine the fraudulent page carefully,since it is often difficult to recreate pages exactly.Also,unless the URL is falsified as a result of DNS cache poisoning,a simple glance at the address bar could provide clues that the site is fake.These attacks are often facilitated by spammers who send mass e-mails that claim to be from legitimate financial intitutions but which really contain links to phishing pages.See images below:

Microsoft and Google to make Internet Glasses(I.G)?

        How to avoid eyes strain when using a computer?This article is all it is about;Computer Glasses are suggested from Microsoft and Google for the safety of your eyes...people use to spend hours using their computers,without worrying about the effects on their eyes!Making glasses for computer use shall be one the big concerns about computers and internet-related ethics,as eyes are the most important organs in our body.

        It is amazingly unbelievable,the rate of glasses wearers in numbers of countries especially in the countries where I.T(Information & Technology)are very well developped

such as Taiwan (more than 80% of the population).The children there are born with definitly good eyes but upon the secondary school,they happen to have finished bothering their  healthy eyes with video games,video games and video games.However,when speaking of games,who has never played any video game at all?Hard to say right?But not everybody has eyes problems for playing those games.

The point is the time spent struggling for "nice victories" on the computer while the bare eyes are dramatically being dried by the computer lights effects given by the impressions in the game being played.That is an exemple among many others,showing that it is too much of damage to youngster's eyes in general and to children in particular!

Thus,a big appeal is made towards  the world's biggest manufacturers of computers as well ascomputer-related components(like web browsers,computer games and so on) such as Microsoft and Google,in a need to promote the ethics related to the design and use of computers,particularly concerning eyes!Many examples have alredy been demonstrated to be efficient like sunglasses,safety glasses and others.A similar progress in the field of computers shall be very beneficial.

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THE MOST SECURE PASSWORD EVER!

This  article is a tutorial where I  will explain how to chose the most secure password for your online accounts in various websites.
Follow the tips given below to secure your online accounts in various websites:
- Do not use same password in all websites.
- Use a high secure password for bank accounts, trusted email accounts (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail) etc.
- Use a totally different password for other websites.
- Never use a dictionary word or part of your name as password in any website.
- Make sure password is atleast 6 characters long and contain a mix of upper case, lower case letters and a numeric digit.
You must be aware that webmasters can see your password from the database in most sites. If you are using same password for all of your accounts in various websites, then there are chances that some webmasters may abuse your information and try to access your accounts in other sites using your login and password.

                              How do hackers abuse your password?