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Review of GFiMailSecurity 10 for Exchange/SMTP

Every organization that has a website and uses Internet for its business, be it small, medium sized or very large, depends on a mail server to send and receive emails. Many companies use Microsoft Exchange server for its features and enormous flexibility. Since every employee has an email account and they use it for doing their day-to-day job, it becomes imperative that the mail server is always available and functional, on a 24×7 basis. One of the critical ingredients of

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How Good are You at Internet Security?

You could be an expert user or a newbie when it comes to using a computer to access websites on Internet, but did you know that every computer that’s connected to Internet is prone to attacks by hackers. Now why would a hacker be interested in your hacking your computer? The answer is quite obvious. At the time of attacking a computer, one of the primary intentions of a hacker is to gain access to your computer’s data by means

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Are Firefox Addons and Plugins Safe to Use?

Are you a fan of Firefox and other Mozilla products and enjoying every bit of what they offer? This will be an interesting question for you – Would you know if the add-ons or the plugins that you use for Firefox and other Mozilla products are safe to use?
What is that’s not so safe about them, you might ask. Here is a quick run down of some points worth considering that will tell you why those plugins and add-ons may

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Bank of America Customers be Aware of This Phishing Attack

There have been many phishing attacks happened in the past but this one seems to be a major one with fraudulent emails hitting email accounts and they all are being sent from numerous email addresses. The website address used in this attack are different ones and attempting to trick Bank Of America customers to click on the embedded URLs in the email and provide the remote website with your important banking information. You must delete these emails as soon as

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How To: Anonymous Internet Surfing

We all know that while surfing Internet we leave our information and whereabouts behind us in the form of IP addresses in the log files on the remote web servers of the sites that we visit. But did you know that this may unknowingly lead you into trouble? How? – Let’s quickly run through a list of scenarios wherein you might want to browse Internet in anonymous mode.

You work for an organization and have been working from a different country.

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Matt Cutts WordPress Blog has been Hacked!

Matt cutts is currently the head of Google’s Webspam team and frequently blogs on his site.
I am a subscriber to his blog and use Netvibes to read the RSS updates from various sites and since yesterday the blog of Matt cutts was showing up an error message in Netvibes. I initially thought it be to a network related problem due to which Netvibes was not able to reach his blog site but it was only when I typed his blog’s

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WordPress and Website Owners Do You have Directory Listing Enabled?

Call it my negligence or anything else but since the day I setup this website, I did not care to go back and check if I had taken care to disable directory listing on all the folders in my website. For those who are wondering what Directory Listing is, a simple explanation could be that with Directory Listing enabled, your web server will list or show all the files and folder within a folder that does not has an index

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