Top 10 Tips to love about windows 8

Now that the Windows 8 Developer Preview has been available for a while, it is easier to take a step back and evaluate it without the powerful emotions that strike most people the first time they deal with it. Looking at it from a long-distance perspective, there’s a lot to like about Windows 8, especially if you are ready to cut the cord from an installed desktop application base and transition to...

Virtual Keyboard and the Fight Against Keyloggers

Welcome to Safe Bank’s net banking. Please enter your net banking userid and password.Userid: 15236523  Password: *************  Action = submit.jspand you have logged into net-banking application. Wow!!! You can now view your account balance, do third party funds transfer and much more.Location:  C:\WINDOWS\system32\config.dllFile contents:  08-Aug-08: 08:00: Window...

Mobile Application Testing

Technology is evolving faster by the day. Today, we see mobiles are no longer mobiles, they are small computers. The smartphones run powerful applications, providing everything to users at their fingertips. Users can use their mobiles for:Logging in to banks in order to transfer funds Purchasing or selling shares via trading portals Booking travel or movie tickets Tweeting or social networking Donating...

Database Links Security

Database links (DBLinks in Oracle) are a technique for one database to connect to a remote database and execute queries. The originating database uses an account in the remote destination database to connect. This connection thus uses a username and password of an account in the destination database. The connection has the privileges of the account that’s used in the destination database.Insecurities...

My Website is infected with Malware - What's next?

Legitimate websites are being targeted for malware infections. Reason, large number of users visit their websites and hence these websites can be misused to easily spread or distribute malware to large number of users. If a website is infected with malware it may belong to one of the following scenariosScenario-1: Website infected with Malware - but not blacklisted by search engines or not blocked...