Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer You can use our FREE Secure Password Generator to create a new password now. Top 15 Tips to Create Strong Passwords Today’s digital world brings new conveniences and entertainment in the form of online shopping, banking and social networking sites. With these conveniences …
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Jing Castañeda ABS-CBN News This article includes 13 Ways To Improve Security of Your Facebook Account. MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Thursday warned against Facebook accounts being used by hackers by to dupe people. One 17-year-old user of the social media site, identified only as …
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Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer In this day and age we all depend heavily on the Internet and social networking to stay informed about important happenings around the world and in our own communities. What many people may not realize is the fact that there is a cyber …
Read More »Cracking WPA2 PSK with Backtrack, Aircrack-ng and John The Ripper
by h4xoR VirtualThreat Contributing Writer This article will walk you through the steps used to crack a WPA2 encrypted wifi router using Backtrack, aircrack-ng and John the Ripper. The information provided in this article is meant for educational purposes only. VirtualThreat is a site about computer security and …
Read More »A Beginner’s Guide To Joining The Anonymous Hactivist Group
Anonymous Virtual Threat Questions? So you want to join Anonymous? How to get in contact with others? How do I recognize other Anonymous? Have you been infiltrated? How do I protect my privacy? What is the right thing to do? How many Anonymous are there? Answers So you want …
Read More »Cyber Safety Measures for Online Shopping
With the popularity of online shopping today, the importance of cyber security becomes essential to everyone. Shopping, even in the real world, involves money and where there is money, there go the criminals. And since much shopping is now happening in cyber space, these criminals lost no time in following …
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D. Dieterle Cyber Arms Every once in a while you run into a product that just makes you sit back and say – “Wow!” I just picked up a 7″ Polaroid tablet for $99 and was stunned at how good it works. The screen quality, how smooth it ran …
Read More »Hackathon Survival Guide: 9 Things To Know
Jamillah Knowles The Next Web I love covering a good hackathon. There’s a lot to choose from around the UK with many creative, competitive and altruistic versions of a coding get-together where people make amazing things in a short amount of time. One thing I do see at …
Read More »Firefox Addon Allows Clueless to Hack Facebook
Darlene Storm ComputerWorld Even if you were drunk and surfing at a Wi-Fi hotspot, you probably wouldn’t stand up and shout your username and password for anyone who might want it. But an attacker does not need to find out your username and password. If you thought that capturing …
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