OpenDNS - A Billion Dollar Business in Making

If that one line of Javascript can earn a billion dollars every year for Google, think what this free DNS service from OpenDNS can do when it will try to leverage its robust infrastructure to make some money?
For those of you who still do not know what OpenDNS does, let me give you a brief [...]

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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 [...]

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The Ultimate Tweak for Your Internet Connections

I often find it difficult to browse Internet sites with my current broadband connection from the local ISP. Sometimes the URLs does not resolve and often it takes lot of time to resolve the addresses. Searching Google for some solution to run a DNS client on my own PC resulted in discovery of [OpenDNS] and [...]

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Phishing: Basics of Phishing and Preventive Measures

Phishing is a kind of activity through which phishers [an attacker] make attempts to obtain sensitive information such as your credit card details, passwords of your mailbox or bank account by pretending to be from a legitimate source.
Phishing can be both socially and technically engineered. A person pretending to be from a bank and asking [...]

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