Beware of Indian Income Tax Spoof emails
In the past I have seen many bogus emails claiming to be from US Income Tax (IRS) Department, most of those emails are poorly crafted and are immediate give-away for…
Security
Daisy chain Wireless access points in your home
We all like to have good wireless signal throughout our house so that we can freely roam between the rooms and use our iPhones or Laptops. But if you live…
Norton 360 v3.0
When it comes to Antivirus products I prefer to only use specific brands known to me. I look for three parameters in a good protection product: Protection (Detect and protect…
Credit Cards in India will require additional security
Recently RBI seems to have sent guidelines to all banks in India that are issuing credit cards to add additional security measures for online and telephone transactions. Currently most of…
Beware of winning prizes
A few weeks back I got a phone call in my office number from some holiday club in Anna Nagar claiming that I have won for a free couple pass…
Bad User Interface
My corporate IT (Exchange Server) enforces security policy on all mobile devices that connect to it. So my phone is locked by a PIN. When I connect the Windows Mobile…
The out-of-the-box firewall in Windows Vista
After I moved to Windows Vista about a year back, I hardly had to worry about Firewall settings. Though initially, I found the UI of Vista Firewall Settings different and…
Greece PM Mobile bugged
I read in IEEE Spectrum July 2007, a detailed technical analysis of how a high profile mobile phone bugging that happened in 2004. It was of Greece Prime Minister, his…