School proxy – 90.500 searches per month

Posted on April 27, 2009 in IP Hider, Misc, Security

This post idea came in my mind while these days, I realized the amount of proxy websites with titles: Unblock Meebo, Facebook, Orkut any many other networking sites. I thought that if there are so many, it must be a great request on the market. So I started a little research. It seems that the [...]

Have you ever used proxies to take advantages of an online contest?

Posted on April 23, 2009 in Free Hide IP, IP Hider, Misc, Web Proxies

Don’t tell me you never thought about this. If you have subscribed to an online contest where the winner is chosen accordingly to the number of votes I have to admit that the contest can be manipulated. Beside begging your friends and sending e-mail to all your contacts asking them to give you a thumb [...]

How to send emails anonymously

Posted on April 14, 2009 in IP Hider, Misc, Security

For the users asking themselves why there is the need to send an email anonymously, the answer comes in an older post that I wrote related to abuses over emails addresses. There are many ways hackers and scammers can take your private information and further use it for their own good.
As I said many times [...]

How to use the new version of Anonymous Friend toolbar to unblock websites

Posted on April 10, 2009 in Free Hide IP, Misc, Security

Anonymous Friend (AF) is an Internet Explorer toolbar that will change your IP address with others from specific countries in order to visit restricted websites, post on forums anonymous or simply to protect you online privacy.
Last week a new version, 4.0, was released. Even if there weren’t new features embedded, this new version had great [...]

Top 9 IT security threats for 2009

Posted on April 8, 2009 in Misc, Security

As a short review for 2008, the main security threat we were confronting with, was the Malware, especially from compromised web sites. Users having vulnerable systems were those who had problems with their first visit on a website like this.

Regarding 2009, below I gathered a list of 9 most important IT security threats of [...]

Credit card fraud – main concern in US

Posted on April 7, 2009 in Misc, Security

Since technology and online activities has changed in the last years totally, the new concern of these days is online privacy and security. Unisys Security Index has conducted a survey related to top online concerns during this financial crisis. The survey revealed that almost 75% of the US citizens are afraid of being victims of [...]