SECURE MAIL

How to protect your email account from being hacked


Protect Yourself
Now a days almost hackers are increasing in the level .  At any time your email account can be hacked, if you didn't aware about the security.  So you should know how to protect your mail account.

Most of them lost their email account because of not knowing the basic security things.  

Here i will explain you about  some of most online scams which fool people and make them lose their passwords and how to protect from therm.




1.Website Spoofing:

Website spoofing is the act of creating a website, with the intention of misleading the readers. The website will be created by a different person or organisation (Other than the original) especially for the purposes of cheating. Normally, the website will adopt the design of the target website and sometimes has a similar URL.

This sites are known as Phishing web page or fake page. The purpose of this web page is to steal your information,username,password. This page will look similar to original page . The url of page also will look similar to original site. But it is not right site. for eg: for gmail.com may be hacker create gmailwelcome.com which look like the gmail.com.

Solution:
✓ Never try to login/access your email account from the sites other than the original site.
✓  Always type the URL of the site in the address bar to get into the site. Never click on the hyperlink to enter the site.
 ✓ Check the url whether it is correct or not.

2.Protecting from Keyloggers:
To know about keylogger and how to prevent the keylogger read this tutorial.

3. ACCESSING YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT FROM CYBER CAFES

Do you access your email from cyber cafes? Then definitely you are under the risk of loosing your password.In fact many people lose their email account in cyber cafes. For the owner of the cyber cafe it’s just a cakewalk to steal your password. For this he just need’s to install a keylogger on his computers. So when you login to your email account from this PC, you give away your password to the cafe owner. Also there are many Remote Administration Tools (RATs) which can be used to monitor your browsing activities in real time.

This doesn’t mean that you should never use cyber cafes for browsing the internet. I know, not all the cyber cafe owners will be so wicked but it is recommended not to use cafes for accessing confidential information. If it comes to the matter of security never trust anyone, not even your friend. I always use my own PC to login to my accounts to ensure safety.

SECURE SYSTEM FROM KEY LOGGERS

How to secure your system from Keyloggers


         Now a days keylogger is major problem for all.  So we should learn to secure our computer from keylogger.    This article will help for ethical hackers or who want to protect their pc.


What is Keylogger?

        Keylogger is one of spyware which will what type you through the keyboard and send it to hacker who send the keylogger. Hackers mainly use keyloggers to steal your passwords, credit card numbers and other confidential data.  So whenever you type the username and password in gmail,online banking sites, it will send the username and password to hacker.

How to Protect?

In order to provide security for your system,you must have


Good AntiVirus:
This is basic and best step to protect your system from keylogger.  So buy a licensed and best antivirus which is currently in market.  My suggestion is Kaspersky, Norton or Mcafee.  Don't forget to update regularly.
Note: Don't use trial or cracked pack ,it is worthless to use.

Good Spyware:
Since keyloggers are basically spywares, if you are a frequent user of Internet then you could be exposed to thousands of keyloggers and spywares. So you should use a good antispyware such as NoAdware.


Antilogger can be Handy

Antiloggers are programs that detect the presence of

COOKIES STORAGE AREA

I Will Show U How to View The Stored Cookies In Ur Browser (Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari)

INTERNET EXPLORER:

Menu Bar------Internet Options

Look Under Browsing History Section On General Tab

Press The “Settings” Button

Select “View Files”

Scroll Down Untill U See The Cookie Named Lables

MOZILLA FIREFOX:

Menu Bar-----Tools----Options-----privacy tab -----Individual Cookies ------ Click it

Opens A Pop Up And Browse For The Cookies Labels

GOOGLE CHROME:

Wrench Icon(Settings)--------Right Click On It

                                         -------Options

                                        --------Under The Hood Tab

                                       --------Cookies Settings

                                       --------Show Cookies

SAFARI(APPLE USERS):

Preferences---------Security Tab

                     ------Show Cookies

COOKIE GRABBING PREVENTION

                  To Prevent Fom Cookie Grabbing Techniques Use Mozilla FireFox in which One option will be given i.e " START PRIVATE BROWSING" Click it , And continue your browsing , it will not allow others to steal cookies
and it will not store history and password you used..........

MALWARE/VIRUS

If You Find Any Suspicious File ,But If It Is Not Detected By Your Antivirus 

Visit www.virustotal.com
www.novirusthanks.com

Upload The Suspicious File And Click Scan 
Then Th File Is Scanned By Many All Antivirus Companies Softwares And Gives U the Detailed Information........

PASSWORD SECURITY

To Secure Your Computer From Breaching Externally,Set passwords

BIOS PASSWORD
STRATUP PASSWORD
USER ACCOUNT PASSWORD
HARD DISK DRIVES PASSWORD

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For start Up Password

Type Syskey In windows Search Box

Click Update------->Select Password Start Up

And Add Password

it Will Ask Password Before Loading The User Accounts

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For Hard Disk Drives Password
INstall BIT LOCKER software

And U can Set Password For INdividual Drive.......

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For Bios Password

Set The Password When System Is Booting

UTORRENT SPEED

To Increase Speed In Utorrent

Set Upload Limit -------> 10-15
Set Download Limit ----> Unlimited
Global Maximum No. Of Connections---------> 2329
Maximum No. Of Connected Peers Per Torrent--------->100 (But Not More Than 300)

Maximum Uploads Slots Per Torrent------> 14

Leave Rest Default...

Click "Advanced" Options

Look For "bt.connect_speed" Set It To 80
Look For "net.max_halfopen" Set It To 100

Apply It And Run The Utorrent 

 Configure the firewall installed to accept the connections by checking the BitTorrent client on the allowed list i.e. Options – Preferences ““ Connection – check Add uTorrent to Windows Firewall. Also, check the Windows Firewall exception (if you keep it enabled) in your client too

For high torrent speeds,The greater the number of seeders, the healthier the torrent and the better the chance of higher speeds and preferably lesser number of leechers.....

UPDATE

                       Update Your system Bios Version , drivers From Respective Company Website Using service Tag... So The Computer Performance Will Be Increased And You Will Be Amazed............

THINGS YOU NEED TO DO BEFORE DISASTER STRIKES

a. WinXP Bootup disks from MS

b. Password Reset disk - in case you forget your password.

c. A copy of your NTDETECT.COM, boot.ini, and ntldr files in a floppy. Make sure that you do not format it as a DOS or boot disk. Make sure the floppy is COMPLETELY EMPTY. You will need that when you can't boot to Windows due to one of them being corrupted. Boot up to that floppy and you will see what I mean. Your computer will boot up to it, then reads the 3 files, and then transfer control over to your system partition. All the 3 files are in the C:\ . Again, make sure all hidden files are made visible. Otherwise you can't find them.

d. Emergency disk created by your antivirus

e. Install Recovery Console if you are using XP. Not too sure if other Windows have this. And hopefully, you installed the Recovery Console before you installed SP2 of XP. :)

f. Back up your MBR. In my MCH Forums ( http://mycomputerheadaches.tz4.com), sorry shameless plug, there is a How To and Tutorial Forum and in it is a Backup Primer that I wrote. Follow my instructions there if you are brave enough :). Oh, the link is:
How to back up the MBR (Master Boot Record)
http://s11.invisionfree.com/SpunkyMcSpank/index.php?showtopic=35

g. Back up your BIOS either manually by copying them with pen and paper or by special-purpose utilities. I did mine using both methods :)

h. This is optional:
Clone your pristine partitions, without the spyware, any virus, defragged and scandisked, with all temp files deleted too. Use Acronis True Image. Install all your favorite programs and utilities then clone your whole drive on CDs, DVDs or another drive. To some people, this is a must.