Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 12, 2009.
There are literally uncountable websites around the world. How many sites you can suspect while there are few hundred thousand of sites to steal your identity, do phishing and harm your computer or even worse. You might say hey I have an Anti virus or personal firewall installed in my computer and I am secure. But in that case you’ve spend enough money to secure your computer. Nevertheless not every time an anti virus or firewall software can detect a fake or low privacy site. Previously I’ve tried to use SiteAdvisor from McAfee the popular anti virus maker and Internet Explorer’s Phishing site checker but honestly both of them didn’t really fit my expectations. Then recently I’ve introduced to WOT (Web of Trust) software from one of my online contacts. WOT is a Mozilla recommended security add-on that also works with Internet Explorer and has been downloaded 3 million times. WOT addon warns you about risky websites to help you avoid spyware, browser hijacking, identity theft, phishing and other Internet scams. WOT is a user contributed site checker and comes with a huge database of known sites. This software comes in a flavor of plugin for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, the 2 most used browser on the globe. It represents the safety marks in a ring format. Dark green is most safe and Dark red represents no safety at all. The colors are designed in Human behavior so it takes a less than a second to understand it. As long we understand Red light is No Go and Green light is a Go. Lets take a look at the features this product offers for Free: [More]
Written by Ruhani Rabin on April 5, 2007.
Written by Ruhani Rabin on April 4, 2007.
REKO is a tool designed to track most popular sites you visit, it finds other users who have similar browsing habits. So it can make similar like minded peoples bring closer in a network. REKO uses FireFox 2.xx web browser and it comes as an extension. The Firefox add-on sends REKO the domain names of the sites you visit. It then adds these to your profile and compares them with other users to find people with similar browsing habits. These users are your neighbours, you can view their profiles to see what other sites they are visiting. REKO also allows you to upload OPML files. If you have an RSS reader, export your OPML file to find RSS reading neighbours! REKO utilises Alexa related links to give you related links based on your top browsing websites.
You will need a free account before you start using REKO. (You will need at least FireFox 2.x )
Written by Ruhani Rabin on March 22, 2007.
rCache is a caching tool. It's designed to use with firefox browser as an extension, which is that always-there place to store data that you want to refer back to. Bookmarks and saving web page data to your computer's disk can be messy and slow processes. Your data is stored on your hard disk tends to be unorganized.
rCache frees you from this, by giving you your own research repository online – where you can store articles, blog postings, documents and images. Tagging and full-text keyword searching is a snap. You can store data that you may want to cite in your research, white paper, article or your own blog posting.
rCache currently offering the features below:
Collect data from web pages, PDFs, Word Documents and other resources.
Index all of this data in a searchable, browsable database.
Tagging of Entries makes pinpoint filtering easy.
Filter your data by the Entry's source domain name.
Search your data by keyword or phrase.
RSS: Use an RSS reader to keep track of your most recent Entries or any tag based lookups into your data.
Collaborate: Give colleagues access to your research data, with restrictions based on tags or keyword searches.
Lets take a look inside it.. [More]
Written by Ruhani Rabin on March 8, 2007.
PhishGuard is a FREE service that detects and rapidly disables Internet "phishing" or "spoofing" attacks designed to steal critical financial data. PhishGuard works with all popular browsers on Microsoft Windows computers.
Phishing attacks use fraudulent websites and emails that mimic well-known organizations in order to trick unsuspecting Internet users. A simple login or account number entry screen becomes a sophisticated trap. By assuming you are dealing with a trusted party, you can reveal financial information including credit card numbers, bank accounts, passwords, and social security numbers to the "bad guys". This type of attack is very difficult for the typical person to detect, as the scammer’s emails and websites mimic the exact style and graphics of the spoofed company, and appear genuine. Sensitive financial information disclosed to scammers is used to make fraudulent financial transactions and to enable long-term identity theft.
Organizations recently impersonated by phishers have included eBay, Citibank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), PayPal, AOL, Visa, Bank One, EarthLink, Microsoft, AT&T, Yahoo, Chase, and numerous others [More]
