Change My DNS Server to Improve Internet Speed and Security

How to Change My DNS Server iPv4, iPv6 Addresses to Improve Internet Speed and Security

Do you know ? You can improve your internet speed and better reliability by changing your DNS server. In this guide, I’ll show you how to change your DNS servers and increase the performance of your Internet service. You can test Your Internet or Broadband Speed using many online tools

Hide My Real Public IP Address

How to Hide My Real Public IP Address? And Why?

What is IP Address (Internet Protocol)?

I don’t want to go to much detail about the IP Address technically. Simply, the IP address is like your Postal address or like a telephone number.

BBC computer server hacked

BBC computer server 'was controlled' by Russian hacker

The exploit was reportedly offered for sale on Christmas Day

 

A Russian hacker took control of a BBC computer server and attempted to sell access to it to other cybercriminals, according to reports.

Protect Android Device from Malware

How to Protect Android Device from Malware

Part of keeping your Android device safe is learning to recognize questionable apps. Apply the same techniques that you use to identify rogue emails from bogus financial

RootKit Removers to Remove Malware

RootKit Removers to Remove Malware

Do you know that your computer can be easily compromised or hacked by many ways ? You can prevent that using better security applications. Rootkit access is the one of that way, which is designed to hide the existence of certain processes or programs from normal methods of detection used by Security applications and system itself. Rootkit enables continued privileged access to a computer. This Rootkit could be installed automatically, also it could be installed via attacking your computer and get the password of the system.
Rootkit detection and removal is very difficult. Because it is stealthy program, escapes from all system scan and also it resides in kernel of the system( kernel is the main component of most computer operating systems). So you have to reinstall your Operating system or you have to re-format your entire hard disk to remove the Rootkit programs.

Cryptolocker infected about 250,000 PCs

Cryptolocker ransomware has 'infected about 250,000 PCs'

 

A virulent form of ransomware has now infected about quarter of a million Windows computers, according to a report by security researchers.

Obama meets tech firm's chiefs amid NSA concerns

Technology company executives pressed President Barack Obama on Tuesday to rein in the U.S. government's electronic spying after a court dealt a blow to the administration's surveillance practices.

Top executives from Apple Inc, Google Inc, Yahoo Inc, Netflix Inc, Comcast Corp, AT&T Inc, Microsoft Corp, Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc and other companies met privately for more than two hours with Obama and top White House aides.
The session came as Obama and his national security team decide what recommendations to adopt from an outside panel's review on constraining the activities of the National Security Agency without compromising U.S. national security.

Simple tips to keep your online accounts secure

Simple tips to keep your online accounts secure

Security experts say passwords for more than 2 million Facebook, Google and other accounts have been compromised and circulated online, just the latest example of breaches involving leading Internet companies.
Some services including Twitter have responded by disabling the affected passwords. But there are several things you can do to minimize further threats -even if your account isn't among the 2 million that were compromised.
Here are some tips to help you secure your online accounts

NSA considering Snowden amnesty

The US National Security Agency is considering offering an amnesty to fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden if he agrees to stop leaking secret documents, an NSA official says.

The man in charge of assessing the leaks' damage, Richard Ledgett, said he could be open to an amnesty deal.
Disclosures by the former intelligence worker have revealed the extent of the NSA's spying activity.
But NSA Director Gen Keith Alexander has dismissed the idea.
Mr Ledgett spoke to US television channel CBS about the possibility of an amnesty deal: "So my personal view is, yes it's worth having a conversation about.
"I would need assurances that the remainder of the data could be secured, and my bar for those assurances would be very high, would be more than just an assertion on his part."
But Gen Alexander, who is retiring early next year, rejected the idea of any amnesty for Mr Snowden.
"This is analogous to a hostage taker taking 50 people hostage, shooting 10, and then say, 'if you give me full amnesty, I'll let the other 40 go'. What do you do?"

The NSA is trying to be more open about what the agency does with the data it collects

The NSA is trying to be more open about what the agency does with the data it collects

In an earlier interview with the Reuters news agency, Mr Ledgett said he was deeply worried about highly classified documents not yet public that are among the 1.7 million Mr Snowden is believed to have accessed.
Edward Snowden's disclosures have been "cataclysmic" for the agency, Mr Ledgett told Reuters.
Earlier this month, a UK newspaper editor told UK MPS only 1% of files leaked by Mr Snowden had been published by the newspaper.
The state department says its position has not changed and that Mr Snowden must return to the US to face charges, says the BBC's Suzanne Kianpour.
The US has charged Mr Snowden with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence.
Each of the charges carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
At the weekend, the NSA allowed a CBS television crew into their headquarters for the first time in its history, in an effort to be more open about what the agency does with the data it collects.

BT has announced the launch of a new 'porn filter' switched

BT has announced the launch of a new internet filter designed to protect children online.

The controls will automatically be switched on for new users. Customers who do not want the service will have to actively choose to turn it off.
The filter is designed to block sites deemed unsuitable for children.
The move comes after the government called for internet service providers to filter legal pornography and other adult subjects "by default".
The BT Parental Controls filter will cover any internet-enabled device connected to its home broadband service.
The implementation of the controls will be pre-selected for new users who are setting up their internet connection for the first time.
There will be three set filter levels - strict, moderate and light - or customers can choose to turn the filter off.
Existing users of BT's broadband will be contacted during 2014 and asked to make a decision on whether or not they want to set up the new service.
Search blocked Sites that show pornography, refer to illegal drugs or promote self-harm will all be blocked. Other categories of sites that the filter can be set to block include nudity, social networking and gaming.
Users can also personalise the filters to block access to sex-education sites and search engines.

Sites considered unsuitable for children will be blocked by default

Sites considered unsuitable for children will be blocked by default

BT currently has 6.8 million broadband customers.
"BT takes the issue of online child protection extremely seriously and we are very pleased to be able to launch the whole-home filter to help parents keep their families safe online," said BT's managing director of consumer commercial marketing and digital, Pete Oliver.
The National Crime Agency's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP) said it welcomed the move by BT.
The government has said by the end of 2014, 20 million homes - 95% of all homes in Britain with an existing internet connection - will be required to choose whether to switch on a whole-home "family- friendly" internet filter.
Sky and Talk Talk have already implemented their own version of a "family-friendly" filter. Virgin is expected to introduce something similar in the new year.
In November, Google and Microsoft announced that 100,000 search terms that related to illegal material would be blocked by their search engines.