Few days ago an interesting attempt to phish for Google account credentials made it to my friend's inbox. As you may know, phishing emails are sent out by abusers to make the recipient in some way reply with their password or click through to enter their password, but the more official looking they are, the more easily they’re believed. This particular mail, shown in the screenshot, had the following attributes:It was sent by “customer care”. OK, could be
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27icann.htmlAccording to new rules unanimously passed by ICANN, at its meeting inParis, any company, organization or country will soon be able to apply for a newWeb address extension, called a top-level domain.That means you can buy a TLD of your own choice soonThat could smooth the way for Web addresses that end in city names, brandsand generic words. It could also sow confusion in the minds of Web users, creat
Google is working hard to make its sites available even to people on low bandwidth. Last they worked upon gmail & now its time for orkut.They have reworked on the code so that if the pages are taking time to load, user will get a prompt to switch over to low-bandwidth version of the same.Good to see the initiative, at times I'm sitting idle at airport on low speed data card connections. Thats the best time to contact friends on orkut and now it will be
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Today we are celebrating "150 days to go..." for the commonwealth youth games 2008 in Pune. Celebration includes waking up @ 6 in the morning and being at sarasbaug @ 7 to attend a painting event. It was hard getting up but when we reached sarasbaug, it was real fun Painters and prominent Pune citizens came together to paint there love for the spirit of games http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohit11/sets/72157605064295912/Let's see if I get time to attend o
I'm loving thisToday I tried playing with "Google Hindi Translater" on my site and I'm still laughing on some of the translations. Some commonly used terms are very nicely translated, like "about us", "contact us" etc. But the fun is to go through the uncommon sentences. Here are a few examplesMaking security a common sense--एक सामान्य बनाने में सुरक्षा की भावनाa member driven community to spread the security awareness-- समुदाय के एक सदस्य संचालित करने के