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Login activities of your Gmail account

Login activities of your Gmail account
Do you’ve a Gmail id? Then, this post is for you only. Chances are pretty high that you are not the only one who is accessing your Gmail account. If your password is weak then your Email id could be easily compromised. Kindly go through my post Making of Strong Password to keep a strong password. OK. Let’s see how to find out if someone logged in your Gmail account. Gmail (Google) has... 

FamilyShield – Block adult web content

FamilyShield - Block adult web content
How to avoid porn websites while surfing? Before that, let’s find out what are the possibilities to view a porn-site link while surfing? First & foremost, knowingly you may visit porn websites. Second, Unknowingly, you may click a URL which came from some harmful sites (may raise a popup),e-mail,chat or a shorten URL from social networking sites. When you get one of the short URLs, you... 

Password protected short URL

Most of the surferz are familiar with URL shortener. I hope you can remember my post Security risk of shortened URLs and even this post is about sharing a short URL with privacy. In case if you are looking for privacy for your short URLs, I’m going to introduce a URL shortener which gives you an added layer of privacy to your links. Follow these steps to share a URL semi-secretly, Visit http://trick.ly/ Enter... 

Security risk of shortened URLs

I hope you surferz know about URL Shortners which help you to convert long web addresses into shorter ones. They are especially important on Twitter, which restricts its posts to 140 characters. Besides bit.ly and tinyurl.com there are more than 250 websites which also offer short URL services. When you get one of the short URLs, you don’t have the faintest idea where it goes until you click... 

Validate your browser and anti virus

Validate your browser : Today I’m going to introduce a website which helps us to check our browser’s security. Our browsers may have bugs. This browser test will check our browser against browser bugs. Let’s know about browser bug first. In programmers slang “bug” is a mistake in a program. Just like everybody else programmers tend to make mistakes. A bug can be a result... 

Making of Strong Password

Making of Strong Password
Surferz deal with many sociable sites everyday. So, creating a strong password is a vital role of surferz. This post deals with making of strong password. Never ever use a common word as a password. Do not simply combine two or more dictionary words, even if you think they are rare. Many password crackers try combinations of dictionary words first. Dictionary words are too easy to guess. Try this... 
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