Google has a tendency of launching new services with ‘labs’ tag on it which are unreliable and incomplete and may have some loopholes, bugs and security flaws. So, there would be a big question mark onto whether the Gmail security too moving towards labs? If you remember, earlier Continue reading

Directory listing allows a person to see list of files and folders of a targeted directory on your website. This is something not serious itself but may help someone to launch attack on your site. So it is good practice to turn-off or prevent directory listing by default and then, if needed, Continue reading

Our reader, Anirudh Mehta, discovered a bug in Google Talk’s invisible status feature available in its Gmail Chat version. If use smartly, you can figure out if the girl next door is really invisible or avoiding you. Here are steps: Set the chat as off the record with target user (how?). Continue reading

Update: Issue is fixed by Orkut.Looks like Orkut team is reading DW! And those who think orkut.co.in does not exist, check this post for screenshot. Yesterday, I came across one more side-effect of orkuts countywide domains. I was using Friend Finder on Orkut, when I lost secure connection with Continue reading

Update: This bug is fixed now. Details are here. I am closing comments to avoid unnecessary comments. A bug in orkut let you add custom images to Orkut’s status update feature as shown below… As you can see OrkutFeeds logo in above screenshot is not a standard smiley which orkut users Continue reading

Free Premium Accounts is giving free Rapidshare & Megaupload premium accounts for referring people to their website. Since the website have no porn ads and not asking for your credit card information, it looks authentic. But there is a catch! Apart from completing referrals, the site makes it Continue reading

indiatimes.com, one of the top portal in India is turned out to be highly insecure in a small security test I have conducted. Indiatimes have traffic rank #17 in India with global rank of #255 as per alexa. This makes things more serious! All of us are familiar with forget password wizard on many Continue reading

As they say, a picture is worth 1000 words, following will surely highlight importance of passwords… (Image Credit: Mohammad Imran’s blog)   Moral of the story - “Passwords Are Like Underwear” Change them often. The longer the better! Be mysterious. Don’t Continue reading

I often receive phishing emails, mostly claiming to be from PayPal, ICICI or similar sites where money involved. Yesterday, I received an email claiming to be from PayPal. Of course, I didn’t fall for it, but it looked so genuine that I thought about sharing few simple rules which I follow Continue reading

Few hours back, I wrote about latest orkut album bug which enabled any user to delete anyone’s photo. Looked like orkut is reading this blog as a bug open from 4 days is now fixed temporarily. Anyway I feel its safe to unveil details now. As most of the stuff below is technical in nature, Continue reading