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  • Secure yourself from Phishing attacks with NetCraft Toolbar

    Phishers send well crafted emails as if coming from a valid source like your bank tricking you to enter your bank account or any portal (like eBay or Paypal) details including login and password or PIN numbers . Once, you enter the details, they are sent to remote servers. Now, that’s more than anything for the hackers to loot money out of your account.

    Taking security seriously, we will discuss the community aided Netcraft tool bar for Internet Explorer & Firefox. First of all, I have to applaud NetCraft toolbar as by far the best toolbar that you can get for free. When I tested a new eBay scam email URL, no other toolbar other than NetCraft can catch the Phishing URL.

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  • How To Secure Firefox browser with NoScripts addons

    No Script allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, say your home-banking web site, and guards the "trust boundaries" against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS). This is the most important feature of this.

    Such a preemptive approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality…

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  • FireKeeper – An Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Firefox

    Firekeeper is an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Firefox. It is able to detect, block and warn the user about malicious sites.

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  • Firecat 1.2 – Firefox Catalog of Audit Extensions

    Most of us would have thought of and used Firefox only as a browser. But, do you know it can well act as a Security application? That is all about FireCAT.

    FireCAT is a Firefox Framework Map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions. It now has 60 extensions.

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