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August 25, 2011August 25, 2011

Facebook Hacking Explained

As the most popular social networking site with an expansive user base of over 750million people, Facebook has dominated all competition. Unfortunately its popularity has also made it a prime target for hackers, scammers, and other malicious internet users. With millions of unsuspecting Facebookers, hackers prey on their ignorance and overconfidence, using a multitude of means to not only gain control of their accounts, but also get as much personal information as possible while they have control.

If you are one of the thousands of people who have had their accounts hacked then you know how devastating and scary it can be, if you are one of the millions who haven’t had their account stolen then you need to do everything you can to protect it. The attitude ‘It won’t ever happen to me’ is what lures people into a false sense of security and they don’t properly protect their data.

So how do FaceBook accounts get hacked exactly?

Hackers use a wide variety of ways to hack accounts but there are three common ones.

Facebook Phishing
Key loggers
Control of the primary email address attached to the Facebook account

How hackers use Phishing / Key Loggers / Control of Primary Email to hack your FaceBook Account

Phishing

Facebook Phishing is an incredibly popular method to hack accounts. It not only allows you to hack the Facebook account, but it also gives the hacker control of the email accounts as well.

Phishing is where websites are created to look identical to other popular, and trusted sites, so that the user inputs their information. This information is usually their password and account name but can also include a wide variety of other valuable information that hackers can use.

Make sure to always be acutely aware of the site you are on and if it does not look authentic, or has some minor discrepancies, do not input any information.

Key Loggers

Key loggers can either be hardware devices that are attached to a computer, a program that is downloaded, or even part of a virus.

The hardware keyloggers and keylogging programs are often used by parents to monitor their children’s internet usage so we will just focus on the virus. There are multiple ways to get this virus on your computer but ultimately, you as the user, have to physically download the keylogging program.

Do not download anything from people you don’t know or open up any files to view them. This can infect your computer and will send your details to the hacker (tips to protect critical data from Keyloggers).

Control email account

The last way to have your Facebook account hacked is when the hacker gets control of the email attached to your Facebook. They can do this by either guessing your password to the email, using a phishing site to get the information, , phishing emails or they can also use a keylogger as well. Learn to safeguard your email account from being hacked.

Your email can be hacked the same way as your Facebook so you need to be on guard against phishing sites and keylogging programs.

If your account is hacked then Facebook will generally catch it and suspend the account. Most hackers are clever enough to change your password so that you cannot access it and they will also alter other information to make it harder for you to retrieve your account. Make sure to get in contact with the Facebook help team so that you can get your account back as quickly as possible.

Below are some tips to keep your FaceBook account safe from being hacked:

Have a complex and unique password. Create strong and secure password and check the strength of the created password (more tips to create strong passwords).
Log out of your account after each use.
Make sure your email and Facebook passwords are separate.
Make sure there is a security question for your Facebook account
Make sure you are logging in at http://www.facebook.com not a look alike site with a different domain name.
Run anti-virus software to make sure you don’t have a keylogger or any other virus on your computer.

April 18, 2011March 7, 2017

Locate the IP Address of Any Person Who Sends You Email on Your Gmail Account

Locate the IP Address of Any Person Who Sends You Email on Your Gmail Account

Now you can easily find the location of email senders on your Gmail account by finding their IP address. By finding the IP address, you can also learn about the people who send you many issues emails. This is possible because you can simply find location country and state using IP address.

You can trace anyone’s address by following these steps.

Just choose any mail and open
Just click on the reply option and click on the show original to get details

Select ‘Received From’ option from the list of options

Here you can get the IP address of the sender, with which you can simply find out the location of that person who sent that mail

You can easily put that address in the application of searching mail IP address. There are many applications available that provide you all details like the IP location or IP finder. All you need is to follow the above mentioned simple steps to locate the e-mail sender’s location and other important information.

April 7, 2011April 7, 2011

Unlink Google Analytics And Google AdSense Accounts

Unlink Google Analytics And Google AdSense Accounts

Google presents two interesting applications namely Google Analytics and Google AdSense. It has started rolling out these two applications so as to enable Analytics to obtain statistical data from AdSense. The integration basically lets AdSense publishers to get in-depth details on ad performance which include geographies, traffic sources etc.

The statistical reports related to Google AdSense help bloggers and webmasters in improving ad performance and offering an improvised browsing experience to the visitors. Moreover, bloggers and webmasters are able to grow and increase their revenue by making the necessary changes depending on the behavior of the visitor and the potential earnings.

However, you can link a Google AdSense account to only a single Google Analytics account. So, if you have “n” number of Google AdSense accounts, you will have to create “n” number of Google Analytics accounts to link them.

Also, the AdSense login has to be listed on Analytics account as an Administrator which means that you can only integrate or link Google Analytics and AdSense accounts having the same email ID or username.

If you happen to link a wrong Analytics account with a wrong website profile, the link becomes practically useless as the AdSense data which is sent to the analytics account will not be proper. To resolve this issue, you need to create a fresh website profile within the linked Analytics account so as to assemble the traffic data related to AdSense domain.

Alternatively, you may also try to unlink a Google AdSense account from a Google Analytics account. To remove the integration or link between the AdSense account and Analytics account, the administrator needs to contact AdSense Support team by filling Support Contact Form on Google AdSense requesting them to unlink or remove the integration.

Within the Support Contact Form, under Google Analytics tree, you will find an option for informing AdSense Support team that you are having a problem in linking/ unlinking your Analytics and AdSense accounts. You simply need to click on the radio button corresponding to this option.

If you have linked more than one Google Analytics profiles to the AdSense account, it is possible to unlink the non-primary profiles. You need to remove AdSense Analytics Code which you have included in the webpage’s HTML.

You may also stop the AdSense reporting in the Analytics account by simply disabling AdSense reporting in each of the profiles. You need to edit the settings for AdSense linking by clicking on the appropriate link which is present above your profile list.

April 6, 2011April 5, 2011

Import Emails From Your Hotmail, Yahoo, MSN, AOL Accounts To Gmail

Import Emails From Your Hotmail, Yahoo, MSN, AOL Accounts To Gmail

For people who wish to switch over to Gmail from their current email service provider, Gmail offers a new feature using which they can easily import all the mails from their previous account to Gmail. As per an announcement posted on Gmail’s blog, this feature will allow users to import all old mails to Gmail with 30 days of auto-email forward facility to the previous email account.

Currently, this Gmail feature supports email imports from sites like MSN, AOL, Hotmail, Comcast, Netscape, Yahoo, Live.com etc. You may simply go to Gmail Help for the list of email service providers that are supported by this feature. The mails imported to Gmail can also be labeled for instant identification.

Method to transfer or import emails to Gmail.

Login to your new Gmail account.
Go to Settings and click on the tab “Accounts and Import”. Clock on the button “Import mail & contacts”.
Input the login details of your previous email address from which you wish to transfer or import the emails.
Choose from the below mentioned options.

Import mail
Import contacts
Add label to all imported mail
Import new mail for next thirty days.

It is recommended that you choose all four options.

Click on the button “Start Import” to start the process of importing emails and contacts from your previous email service provider to Gmail.
It will take around 48 hours for the entire transfer/ import process. You may check the status of the import process by going to the tab “Accounts and Import”.

However, you need not worry if you are unable to find the tab “Accounts and Import” under “Settings” in your Gmail account as Gmail is in a process of rolling out this new feature to old/ existing accounts and you will soon get it in your account as well.

April 2, 2011April 1, 2011

Monitoring Adsense Account Of Google With Shock Adsense

Monitoring Adsense Account Of Google With Shock Adsense

Participants as well as publishers of the AdSense advertisement program of Google can more conveniently and easily log in to the respective AdSense account through the AdSense site in order to check their income that are earned daily, clicks, page CTR, page impressions, eCPM, etc.

Another option for the publishers is to use desktop application for checking their AdSense account of Google. Besides that, there is another freeware known as Shock AdSense that can generate reports from websites like AdSense site.

The desktop application will provide information to the publishers about their daily revenue, CTR, page impressions, and information related to products in analysis format. As for example, it compiles the data of AdSense from the user’s account, and then presents it in the format of colorful graph for easy analysis.

From RateItAll Rating List consisting 24 Freeware Utilities of AdSense, Shock AdSense gets 4 or 5 rating in that category. The users can download the utility mentioned above from the internet. The users who want it to install in their system may also try out the portable version, or opt to run that from any USB device that connects externally without any installation.

April 1, 2011March 31, 2011

Create Email Account And Receive Mail For Postmaster Or Abuse In Google Apps

Create Email Account And Receive Mail For Postmaster Or Abuse In Google Apps

Whenever we are making an account of a new user in Google Apps, we get a service from Google so that we can use custom domain names on several Google products which include Gmail, where in email lists a username is kept reserved – this error message is shown when administrator is adding abuse or postmaster as his account username.

The error message we are getting is actually not an error; merely this sort of behavior is designed from Google Apps. It sends email messages just as abuse in default configuration (i.e. abuse@domain.com) as well as in case of postmaster it will be as (i.e. postmaster.domain.com) to the Google Team. It is done for managing the spam reports by monitoring, technical and abuse issues, and they are addressed accordingly.

Hence, abuse as well as postmaster is allotted in reserved aliases therefore it cannot be implemented as usernames and nicknames.

To create an email list for Google Apps for receiving mail messages that have been sent to abuse as well as postmaster users the following instructions should be followed.

At first log in into your control panel. Then click user accounts. After that create email list. Then enter abuse from the list that you are provided in the box , and choose a name that is to be used for your new email list.

After that add recipients by just entering usernames or maybe email addresses one after another in the box that is below add a recipient. Lastly, click ‘add recipient’ option after each username have been entered.

March 31, 2011March 7, 2017

Firefox Add-On: Reset The Passwords For Multiple Accounts Simultaneously

Firefox Add-On: Reset The Passwords For Multiple Accounts Simultaneously

Due to the recent advancement of internet technology, it is not at all surprising that everyone is having more than ten accounts for fulfilling various applications such as, FaceBook, Skype, Gmail, Yahoo mail, Windows login, Internet banking, Internet access login, online shopping, etc.

To remember all the user IDs with passwords for so many accounts is a tough job. That person need to be so much disciplined to do that. He can save the entire list of user IDs along with passwords in a particular secure place in order to refer them anytime he wants to.

After understanding this common behavior of internet users nowadays, Mozilla Firefox has given the option of ‘Mass Password Reset’. This allows people to reset passwords of multiple accounts simultaneously.

The Mass Password Reset Firefox – another add-on from Firefox helps users to change their password of multiple accounts at the same time. You can reset the account passwords if they are of the same id simultaneously rather going into each and every websites and alter the passwords manually one after another. This tool so designed that it will let you change the passwords which is based on domain.

If you want to increase the protection for using this feature, Mozilla Firefox lets you make a master password in order to approach Mass Password Reset option which is optional. Anyone can download and use this add-on their PC. That person should have the knowledge of the master password, or otherwise he won’t be able to reset passwords.

March 24, 2011March 24, 2011

Important Tips To Prevent Your Gmail Account From Being Hacked By Phishers

Important Tips To Prevent Your Gmail Account From Being Hacked By Phishers

At the present time, you might have often heard about liability of online security, since the domains and emails are being stolen via unauthorized parties. Being a common internet surfer, you should make sure that your domains or emails are safe from phishers. However, by taking proper precautions you can stop your confidential data from being stolen by anyone.

You cannot really notice the email which is actually delivered by a phisher, as it appears as a legal website page. By hacking your database, a phisher can copy your private data such as bank information, online merchants, email, payments and even governments.

Phishers use all such information to steal your money from bank. They can also open a new credit card application using your name and other data.

Following are some important tips to prevent attacks by phishers:

• Go to the Gmail account then go to Setting and then filters and look for a filter that you have not created. If there is any filter that is not created by you, it surely is a suspect filter. Delete it immediately.

• Open your Gmail account, go to Setting and then Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Stop or disable the forwarding, IMAP and POP.

• If you receive any email or link in the email that asks for your password, user name, account number of bank or any other private data, you have to be careful before submitting any type of the above information. Remember that all the legal websites does not asks you for any type of private information.

• If you get an email which asks for your personal data from a known organization, you must type the link in the address bar. Most of the time, there will be a proper declaration on the homepage to do something.

• Always make use of the latest versions of internet browsers for example Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.x and Opera 9.x as these browsers are integrated with phishing filters. With the help of the phishing filters you can browse over the net more safely and stay away from being interrupted by these types of phishing actions.

• When you receive a mail which is about online offers and asks you to give your personal data, please read the whole mail once, don’t be too excited. Confirm first about the reality and try to get some extra information about the mail.

March 23, 2011March 7, 2017

Easily Backup And Restore Email In Gmail Account

Easily Backup And Restore Email In Gmail Account

Loss of an email from Gmail is almost next to impossible, and that is why people prefer to save their important mails on the Gmail servers. You could also automate it with the help software application called Gmail Backup. The tool Gmail Backup allows the Gmail user to backup of mail regularly. Gmail users can also restore their mails with this tool whenever they need it again.

The tool Gmail backup has the ability to backup the entire emails together with the mail information like the date, labels, from and so on. This tool uses the inbuilt Gmail IMAP facility to backup the email massages. It saves the email messages in the Microsoft EML format that permit restoring to new mail client, for instance on the Microsoft Outlook.

The Gmail Backup tool is obtainable in two editions, Windows and Linux. The Windows edition is available along with the user friendly interface. All you have to do is just put your email address and password and pick the destination folder where you would like to backup to. After doing that, you need to just click on Backup option to begin the backup process.

The Linux edition is available only in command line. You can download the Gmail Backup utility from www.gmail-backup.com/download free of charge.

March 8, 2011March 7, 2017

A Trick to Assist In Opening Two or More Gmail Accounts At Once

A Trick to Assist In Opening Two or More Gmail Accounts At Once

Google mail allows every individual to create innumerable accounts catering to your mailing needs. Gmail service utilizes cookie to help them in curbing the simultaneous usage of two Google mail accounts on a system.

A cookie is always stored in the web browser when a user logs in to the account. If a user tries to open Gmail again, then the same cookie is tracked and opens directly the account. Only if you sign out of your Gmail account then you can sign in to another Google mail account.

A trick is available which will help users in bypassing the above limitation and assist in opening two or more accounts concurrently without any hassles.

To open different Google mail accounts on browsers simply follow a trick described below.

Open your web browser like internet explorer, Firefox, apple’s safari, Google’s chrome etc.
Now open your Gmail accounts separately in the browser.
Open different Google mail accounts in separate navigators.
The above method will not create any kind of problem until and unless a cookie plug-in is shared between them.
Following the above steps allows one to open as many Google mail accounts as possible on their system.

If you have only Firefox installed on your system and no other web browser, you can still open different accounts on Firefox itself. You have to utilize an add-on named IE Tab on Firefox to open different Gmail accounts.

The above add-on allows one to access two or more Gmail accounts from your Firefox browser without any hassles.