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Good Passwords vs Bad Passwords [How to]

TechSansar — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:25:00 +0000

We can assume safely that even though our (most Nepali’s) passwords are simple and not that much lengthy, they are safe somehow. The reason being most of us use roman Nepali characters as our passwords which, in most of the cases, are not English dictionary words – letting us behind the target of hackers. But [...]

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Giving Joomla its own installation directory

TechSansar — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:28:00 +0000

If you have been using WordPress, then you might have been in love with the pretty feature of WP that allows you to install WordPress in its own installation directory. This comes handy when your site homepage is different from the directory of WP installation as illustrated here. There are many benefits of doing this, [...]

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Upgrading and Migrating Joomla the easy way!

Subash — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:47:19 +0000

Even though Joomla is a popular Content Management System (CMS) used by millions of websites, upgrading from one one version of Joomla to another is still not systematized by the Joomla or Open Source Matters! (the company behind this popular CMS.) Upgrading Joomla refers to elevating in Joomla’s minor version – for example from 1.5 [...]

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Google Apps account with 2-step Verification, how to guide

Subash — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:54:53 +0000

Google has finally has launched the 2-step verification authentication method for increasing the security of your Google Apps accounts which they initially released for Gmail services. Now that the famous 2-step verification is available for all editions of Google Apps for Apps users, once the domain administrator has enabled the feature in their Google Apps [...]

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World's Fastest SDHC Memory Cards released by Toshiba

Subash — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:39:36 +0000

While Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) cards are getting more popular and replacing the Secure Digital (SD) memory cards, Toshiba has announced the world’s fastest SDHC memory cards. SDHC cards overcome the storage capacity limited to 4 GB in SD cards to as much as 32 GB till now.The SDHC and microSDHC UHS-I cards boast [...]

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Twitter wants you to change your password ASAP

Subash — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:05:29 +0000

Maybe Twitter server were weak at security, maybe they may need to increase employers – to run the second largest Social Networking site (Facebook being the first). Twitter has recently sent a notification email urging users to change their passwords. Twitter HeadQuarters believe that they have recently been hit and many user’s accounts were exposed. [...]

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Facebook users warned about ‘sexiest video’ attack

Subash — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:24:00 +0000

Yet another Facebook issue. A computer security company on Tuesday warned Facebook users against clicking on a link claiming to be the “sexiest video ever” which is actually a trap designed to infect computers. Here comes a news all the way from Singapore about Facebook malware. The firm, Sophos, said that thousands of users have [...]

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Sambad Technologies organizes Information Security training in Bangkok

Subash — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:14:13 +0000

Sambad Technolgies is organizing a training on Information Security for Business in Bangkok, Thailand from May 12 to 14. Participants of the course are the representatives from governments, banks, NGOs, and other business establishments from India, Nepal, Papua New Guinea and other countries. This International Training on Information Security for Business 2010 Bangkok is surely [...]

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Everybody is a data creator – importance of data

Rohan — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:26:00 +0000

We all are creating data in a way or the other. Even deleting a file is dumping or increasing data volume – bigger, even more larger storage is sought every second day of your computing life. Myself was with a 256 MB MP3 Player 6 years ago, followed by 2 – 8 – 16 GB [...]

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NAST website hack – another Nepalese Governmental site hacked!

Subash — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:29:48 +0000

NAST, then RONAST, website seems to be still hacked (we first noticed about 0500 hours today). Though the official governmental website at http://nast.org.np still says – Welcome to Nepal Academy of Science and Technology(NAST), there is a short hacker’s words on the site, which says: Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) HACKED is an [...]

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