How to Prevent Phishing scams

A lot of phishing emails claim to come from legitimate sources or popular websites. The emails often ask the user to enter bank details or other personal information. There are also phishing scam websites which appear exactly like the original websites. Some of these fake websites are so well done that it’s quite impossible to tell them apart unless you look at the URL. Most of these fake websites redirect users to pages with spaces where they have to fill in essential financial information usually

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Phishing Techniques

Phishing is the method used to steal personal information through spamming or other deceptive means. There are a number of different phishing techniques used to obtain personal information from users. As technology becomes more advanced, the phishing techniques being used are also more advanced. To prevent Internet phishing, users should have knowledge of various types of phishing techniques and they should also be aware of anti-phishing techniques to protect themselves from getting phished. Let’s look at some of these phishing techniques. 

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Hide Data in Media Files

Hiding of data file in media file or any other is called Steganography. The art and science of hiding information by embedding messages within other, seemingly harmless messages. Steganography works by replacing bits of useless or unused data in regular computer files (such as graphics, sound, text, HTML, or even floppy disks) with bits of different, invisible information. This hidden information can be plain text, cipher text, or even images.

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Download Windows 8 for free [Full Version]

Windows 8 is a new version of Windows that focuses on variety of hardware platform and form factors such as slim-type computers and new generation of touch devices. The new version free for download was made available for developers and testers of the new OS.

Here’s the download links for the Enterprise version of Windows.

How to get and download the latest operating system

Thankfully, Microsoft released the new version free for download designed for technological professionals, engineers and IT personnel's for testing and debugging purposes.

Download Links of the ISO file (x86 and x64)

• Windows 8 32-Bit version

• Windows 8 64-Bit version

If you can’t download the file, make sure that you are login to your respected Hotmail account.

Hardware and System Requirements

Windows 8 works with the same hardware that Windows 7 have:

• Processor: 1 GHz or faster
  
• Computer Memory: 1 GB (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
  
• Hard disk space: 20 gigabytes (GB) 
  
• Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver
  
• tablet or monitor that supports multi-touch.
  

Windows 8 uses a new graphical interface based on Metro design concept. It is a new tile based Start screen very similar to Windows Phone OS.

That’s it! Keep on reading!

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Download Microsoft office 2013 Now!

Microsoft has just released the free preview version of the all new Microsoft Office 2013. You can now download Microsoft Office 2013 immediately on your computer to try it. Note that you will get a beta version of Microsoft Office 2013.
The biggest change in Microsoft Office 2013 is the look and feel of its interface. Instead of the traditional user interface (UI), it now uses the Metro UI, which is one of the new feature of the upcoming Windows 8. Although, unlike Windows 8, Office 2013 only has partial implementation of Metro UI.

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