Microsoft Office for Mac vs Windows – Differences

Microsoft Office 365 subscription is available for both Windows PC and Mac. Nowhere in its Office subscription page does Microsoft tell you that the applications and features of Office 365 are far less for MacOS compared to Office 365 for […]

Best Android Emulators for Windows 10 PC

Android is the leader when it comes to mobile operating systems. One in 3 smartphones runs Android – different versions. Naturally, most of the programmers and developers tend to create apps – messaging, communications, office automation, and games, etc. – […]

Inferring passwords using WiFi signals – Hacking passwords over WiFi

It seems that almost everything is breakable when it comes to security on the Internet. We’ve seen even the best security systems having one or more flaws that can be exploited for the hackers’ benefit. No, some professors across three […]

What is Infrastructure as a Service? All you want to know abut IaaS

In Cloud Computing, even though the concept is not much new, there is much confusion when it comes to Infrastructure as a Service. The other two types of services offered by cloud providers are clearer. This article attempts questions related […]

Business Email Compromise – Is your organization ready to deal with it?

They look innocent. They look like emails originating from an executive to a CEO or from a CEO to a financier. In short, the emails are more of business nature. If your CEO sends you an email asking details of […]

How to view Archived or Cached web pages on the Internet

Sometimes you may want to see pages from the perspective of search engines. At other times, people may be offline and want to check some site. In still other cases, people might want to see an older version of their […]

What information is available on Boarding Pass Barcode and why you should care

Most people treat the boarding passes for flights as a piece of trash after they’re through with the concerned journey. Some may file it somewhere for future references but in most of the cases, the boarding passes end up in […]

IoT Ransomware – The danger we all have been ignoring!

Back in the 1990s, Internet was a luxury. We never knew when and how our computers became part of the Internet instead of Internet being a part of computing. Even faster than that and before we knew, we found that […]

What is Email Spoofing & how to protect yourself & stay safe

Email Spoofing is a type of phishing. We all know about Phishing, how it works and how to avoid phishing. Basically, they are cybercriminals who tend to set up different types of baits with an intention to extract valuable information […]

Cyberbullying Definition, Causes, Effects, Prevention

Bullying can take place anywhere – in schools, playgrounds, during transit to and from school, etc. While many schools have anti-bullying policies, technology has taken it to new levels. Cyberbullying is the method where the bullies and the bullied make […]

Sophos XG Firewall Home Edition is a free hardware-type firewall for Windows

Sophos has come up with a software version of its so-called “next generation firewall”. The hardware suite offers plenty of features. You can use these features to create an exceptionally good firewall, provided you know about configuring firewalls. You may […]

What is the Google RankBrain algorithm update all about?

What is the Google RankBrain algorithm update all about & how does it work? How does this machine learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) affect SEO? In my previous article on facts and myths of Artificial Intelligence, I wrote about Strong AI […]

What is Data Science, and how do you become a Data Scientist?

Data Science is not just about data. The bare basics are recognizing what all data to keep, identifying how to process it for different results. It does not stop there. Data scientists need to figure out blanks in data and […]

Facts and Myths about Artificial Intelligence: Weak AI, Strong AI & Super AI

A few days back, I came across an article that was convincing people that Artificial Intelligence or AI cannot progress beyond what it is now. It totally ignored the future. But we all know that research on the subject is […]

What is Website Traffic Fingerprinting? Is it dangerous?

We had earlier written on Browser Fingerprinting where it was possible for websites to know who is the person visiting them. Website Traffic Fingerprinting or traffic fingerprinting is a similar method. It allows third parties to snoop on you and […]

What is Pastejacking and How to protect yourself

The easiest method to obtain any text and images from a website is to select it, copy it using CTRL+C keys and then paste it using CTRL+V. What if the pasted material is not what you copied from the website? […]

What is a Polymorphic Virus and how do you deal with it

In spite of all the anti-virus programs in the world, the scope of malware attacks doesn’t seem to slow down on the Internet and from there, to your computers. What makes some virus undetectable even by the best anti-malware software? […]

Email Harvesting – Methods and Prevention

Email Harvesting makes use of Harvesting Bots to obtain email IDs en masse from online sources – although offline sources are also made use of. This post looks at Email Harvesting and Email Scraping, methods used by spammers to obtain […]

How to choose your Cloud Service Provider

More and more business houses and even individuals are moving to the Cloud because of the benefits they provide. At the least, cloud service providers offer remote storage accessible from anywhere. There are different types of cloud providers – SaaS, […]

Why Centralized Internet won over the Decentralized Internet model?

The early days of Internet were based around different groups of people and organizations. They were isolated standalone networks that might or might not connect with other networks. Thus, the control over the different parts of Internet was limited to […]