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What is Social Engineering? Attacks, Techniques & Prevention

In this tutorial, we will introduce you to the common social engineering techniques and how you can come up with security measures to counter them.

Topics covered in this tutorial

  • How social engineering Works?
  • Common Social Engineering Techniques
  • Social Engineering Counter Measures

How social engineering Work....
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Google Tracks Your Every Move

Google Tracks Your Every Move

Everybody knows about Google Maps facility to see locations and the paths leading to them. It is also used for GPS tracking of vehicles. But do you know that Google also keeps track of Smartphone Users locations? Yes, it is true that Google follows your Smartphone wherever you go by using the location settings of the phone. It uses a program that marks the location of  a person as Red on the map. If you want to check the tracking record maintained by Google for you, then you can check at: http://maps.google.....
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podcasting

Podcasting

The word Podcasting has been derived from iPODbroadCASTING since it is most popular on Apple’s iPod. It was developed in 2004 by former MTV video jockey Adam Curry and software developer Dave Winer. They wrote a program, called iPodder. It was used to automatically download Internet radio broadcasts to the iPod. After that several developers made improvements in this idea and thus Podcasting was officially born. It is new form of radio journalism and is used to broadcast audio/video content over the web. Online blogs of a....
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meaning of google

Meaning Of Google

The word “Google” was derived from the word "Googol". Googol is a mathematical term which means a “1 followed by 100 zeros (10 000 000000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000)”. The term was invented in 1938 by Milton Sirotta. He was nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Founders of Google used this term to name their search engine because they wanted to show that huge amount of information available on the web is collected at a one place called “Google”.....
internet vs Internet

internet vs Internet

internet: It means any group of networks which are connected to each other. These networks can be within single city or in different cities. It is the internetworking of some networks, that is bunch of small LANs are connected together. Internet: It means the biggest worldwide collection of networks on Earth, that is World Wide Web. Various internets are connected together. It is the internetworking of all the public networks in the world.....