Category: Internet

When you access a website using an in-secure HTTP protocol, then a hacker can eavesdrop on the data that is being sent to and from your computer. This is also called man-in-the-middle attack. But if you use an HTTPS connection then all the data transferred from and to your computer is encrypted and nobody can see it. If you are using Google Chrome, then you can force it to use only HTTPS connections for many websites like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. which support it.

YouTube is perhaps the most popular web site of the world accessed by millions of people every day. If you are also a YouTube fan and enjoy watching videos on YouTube, then you may be interested in controlling YouTube videos with your multimedia keyboard.

There has been a huge rise in the URL shortening services over past few years. Now McAfee, the popular anti-virus vendor, has also joined the race. What makes the McAfee URL Shortener service different from others is that all URLs are scanned using their latest virus definitions at the time of using them. McAfee also provides an extension for Chrome, so you can use their service with a single click.

Facebook is everywhere. It appears that almost all the websites and blogs today are infested with the Facebook Like button. If you find it overwhelming and want to block Facebook creeping into all the websites, then you can use the Facebook Blocker browser add-on.

These days we receive a lot of fake emails claiming to be from sites likes eBay and PayPal. These fake emails often contain links to phishing web sites designed specially to steal your login data. Now Gmail has introduced a new feature called Authentication icon for verified senders which allows user to know the whether the senders email is trusted one.

Wikipedia has become very popular among students and all those looking for all kinds of information. If you are someone who looks up Wikipedia very often, then you can use the Wikipedia Companion extension in the Chrome browser to make your Wikipedia browsing much easier.

These days fraudsters setup a genuine looking site so that when you try to login to it, they can steal your login data. To secure your Yahoo! account from such phishing sites, you can use a Yahoo! Sign-In seal. A sign-in seal is a secret between the computer you set it up on and Yahoo!. So when you sign in to Yahoo! from your computer, your sign-in seal tells you that you’re seeing a genuine Yahoo! site, not a phishing site.

To secure your Yahoo! account from phishing sites, you can use a Yahoo! Sign-In seal. We have earlier discussed how to create a Yahoo! sign-in seal. What if you want to remove a sign-in seal from your computer? Here is how to remove a Yahoo! sign-in seal.

If you use a weak password in your Yahoo! e-mail account, try to access it through a public computer (like from cyber cafe) or use a public Wi-Fi internet to access your Yahoo! e-mail account, then there is a possibility that your Yahoo! e-mail account might get hacked. If you think that your Yahoo! e-mail account has been compromised, then you can try to recover it using the Yahoo! account recovery wizard.

If you are a regular user of YouTube and enjoy watching videos on YouTube, then you should set the default video playback quality to match your connection or for a better experience. You can change the settings in YouTube to play the videos either in low quality or in high quality (high-definition).