How to Know Your Gmail Account is Hacked or Not

Hacking cases are increasing day by day. If you are a using Gmail and worried about hacking??? Then no need to worry.... Gmail account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to other important information. So you don't want to share all these information with others. And most of the time you worried about hacking of your Gmail Account. But with this simple way you can check your Gmail Account is Hacked or not.

Google Gmail has a new feature which helps you know about the activity of your Gmail account, From that you know when and from which IP you are using your Gmail Account. This will helps you to track the Activity of your Gmail Account. And help you to know your Gmail Account is hacked or not or someone is accessing your account.

Steps to Check

1. At the bottom of your inbox, you’ll see information about the time of the last activity on your account and whether it’s still open in another location:

2. Just Click on the Details. It will give you all the details about your Login time and IP from which you login.

The top table, under “Recent Activity,” indicates all open sessions, along with IP address and “access type” — which refers to how email was retrieved, for example, through iGoogle, POP3 or a mobile phone. You can also view your current IP address at the very bottom of this window, where it says “This computer is using IP address“
With this information, you can check your Gmail Account Activity, and Know that your Gmail Account Hacked or not by tracking the Login Time, Browser Type and IP Address.

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Android Least secure, Rim's Blackberry is most secure Mobile OS

Increasing Number of samrtphones have also increased Chances of malware attacks on mobile Phones. Cybercriminals are sneaking a fast-increasing amount of malware into smartphones to steal data or even money, with those running on Google's Android most exposed to security threats. All Security depends on you Smartphones OS.
Android an Google Mobile OS it one of the most selling Mobile OS now a day. Any person can design and run the application on Android so its best quality is its weakest point. According to survey
In 2010, just 11,138 mobile malware samples were recorded, but they soared 155 percent to 28,472 in 2011,  Just under half -- 46.7 percent -- occurred on Android phones,



Android's security model basically says, it is the responsibility of the end user to judge if an application is secure.
but this is a lot of expectation form the user.Who is not able to understand if a vendor is legitimate?

Some criminals are hiding "malicious code in legitimate applications" that consumers are downloading unwittingly. Once they have gained access to data on the phone, they are stealing information that could be used in identity theft or in illegal transactions.
 Apple's ios is also smae as Android but the main difference is:Anyone can create or install an application on an Android phone, as opposed to the Apple controlled Appstore which imposes a layer of screening.
 And Survey finded out that
RIM's Blackbery is the most secure Mobile OS and After that IOS and then At last comes the Android.
And Major problem with the Mobile phones is that they are directly connected to the money in Sim unlikely in PC's. if Criminals are able, for instance, to implant so-called trojan horses that prompt phones to send SMSes to premium numbers Then that can cost you a lot.
So next time when you instal any application you Should Check if the Provider is Trust-able Or not.

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Top 5 WordPress Backup Plugins For Your Blog & Website

Every Blogger Knows about wordpress. WordPress is one of the best blogging platform for Blogs. Most of the users are using WordPress these days and its CMS is also using by web developer. All the users worried about the backup. Backup is must do thing for all WordPress users. So today we decided to share some of the easy methods which allows you to take the WordPress Backup easily.

List is here:

1. WP-DB-Backup

WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables. You can choose other tables also. Easy to use very simple, no need to schedule daily, weekly or monthly. Backup can be emailed to your email or stored on your server.

2. WP-DB Manager

Another best WordPress plugin to manages your WordPress database. This one helps you manage, optimize and run queries on your database. Useful indeed. It provides complete database management right from the admin interface. 

3. Simple WordPress Backup

Easy to use WordPress Plugin, it allows you to back up your WordPress Database with just one click. It also help you to create a full dump of your WordPress MySQL Database.

4. BackUpWordPress

Simple automated back ups of your WordPress powered website. BackUpWordPress WordPress plugin will back up your entire site including your database and all your files once every day.

5. XCloner – Backup and Restore

This Plugin is new and specially designed for PHP/Mysql websites. XCloner Backup tool uses Open Source standards like TAR and Mysql formats so you can rest assured your backups can be restored in a variety of ways, giving you more flexibility and full control. It can work as a native plugin for WordPress and Joomla.

 Now no need to worry just use these plugins for backup....

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Use Pendrive as a key to lock your computer

Hey I have interesting trick for you. Are you tired of people touching your computer and making modifications in it without your notice. Wouldn’t be cool if your computer get locked up when you remove USB from it. So I would be telling you about the software that can help you to do this task quiet easily. So the below trick will tell you about how to use  USB / pendrive as a key to lock your computer.

USB System Lock
This is a free software. USB system lock works flawlessly in locking your system through USB. When you install this software it detects the USB stick and create digital key into it or you can manually create digital key through this software. As long as your USB is inserted to the computer the computer will work fine but as the USB is removed thr computer is get locked. You need to again insert the USB for unlocking the computer. Strangely the program itself does not come into the start-up list.


If you happen to accidentally delete the key from your USB stick while working on the protected computer you can reassign a key using Start > Programs > USB System Lock > Key Disk Generator.

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/usl/files/usl/

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