Samsung Galaxy Phones May Be Vulnerable to Malicious Wiping

Samsung Galaxy SII and SIII smartphones might be at a huge security risk when opening links with QR technology, NFC or push notifications, according to a new report. ZDNet is reporting that Samsung devices with TouchWiz’s user interface for Android could find their smartphones to be completely wiped clean when exposed to a malicious code embedded on a webpage. SEE ALSO: Facebook Users Say Private Messages Appear Publicly Security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar demonstrated at a security conference last week in Argentina the weaknesses built into Samsung’s Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), which allows message communication to go from the phone to the application server. Samsung’s TouchWiz communicates with USSD and...

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Free Website Monitoring with SMS and Tweet alerts

The one big advantage with Google Docs is that it can be configured to check your website status every minute and thus you’ll instantly know if your site is down. And it’s free. The Google Docs sheet will monitor your website in the background at all times and will send an email alert whenever it has trouble accessing the website. If the issue is resolved, you’ll get another notification saying “all’s well.” If you are a tech genius you can also make a twitter account to alert you which will enable you to monitor the downtime history. If you want to configure this for your server you can do it in 4 easy steps. You can find the steps her...

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Maldet Install, Setup and Syntax

Maldet is a security software usually used in linux to scan for vulnarabilities or malware check. To install maldet follow the steps below: cd /usr/local/src/ rm -vrf maldetect-* wget http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/maldetect-current.tar.gz tar -xzf maldetect-current.tar.gz cd maldetect-* sh ./install.sh maldet --update-ver maldet --update You may also want to consider activating the many features of maldet, for example:  email_alert=1  email_addr="root"  quar_hits=1  scanthreads=5  maxfilesize="1024k" To edit these options, $EDITOR /usr/local/maldetect/conf.maldet To scan all users public_html give the command below: maldet -a /home?/?/public_html ...

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Best BSNL Broadband Plans

Searching for BSNL broadband plans is a pain in the ass. Here is a quick and easy way to access the BSNL plans according to your region. Click here for more detail...

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