Police crackdown on fake shopping sites

More than 2,000 web shops selling fake or non-existent goods have been shut down by police.

Goods purportedly from GHD, Ugg, Tiffany and Nike had been peddled by the sites, said the Metropolitan Police E-Crime Unit.

It said shoppers had been tempted by low prices.

The unit warned that the goods supplied were counterfeit, adding that many sites had taken payment and then not despatched any products in return.

It said many of the sites had been simply set up by cyber thieves to harvest credit card and banking details.

Precautions :

Police officers worked with domain registrars to identify the rogue traders and then used Nominet's powers to seize and shut down the offending domains.

Detective Inspector Paul Hoare from the E-Crime Unit said many gangs registered sites in bulk solely to dupe customers. He said the campaign to close the criminal sites would continue in the run-up to Christmas.

"I would urge customers to take all precautions to ensure they buy from legitimate sites only," he said.

DI Hoare said consumers should check a website's credentials to ensure it was approved and reputable. He said they should also consider using a credit card for payments over £100 and perhaps reserve one card for online shopping.

DI Hoare said shoppers should also be wary of unsolicited offers that arrive via email.

The E-Crime Unit took similar action in 2010 when it shut down about 1,800 sites.

Read More

A simple method to get the Youtube new design before official release..!!

Not only gmail nd google homepage, google is also testing a brand new design for Youtube and here's a little hack you can do right-now to enjoy the swanky new layout before official release.


All New Youtube Homepage:

New Youtube Design:

To get started with the new YouTube design follow the steps below :

• Launch www.youtube.com in Morzilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
• If using Firefox press : Ctrl+Shift+K and if Google Chrome : Ctrl+Shift+J to open developer Tools.
• In the developer tools console paste document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=ST1Ti53r4fU"; and hit enter.
• Reload Youtube Website and enjoy the new layout.

Read More

Google Music is LIVE

The search giant has finally entered the cloud music arena by launching first invitation only public beta of their "Google Music" service, unfortunately the service is only available to US users but the limitation can be easily bypassed as shown after the jump along with Google Music features, beta invitation process and a video demonstration.

Google Music Beta Features :

• Listen anywhere, even offline - You can get to your personal music collection at home or on the go. Listen from the web or any enabled device with the Music app available from Android Market. Not online? No problem. The songs you've recently played will automatically be available offline. You can also select the specific albums, artists and playlists you want to have available when you're not connected.
• Stay in sync, without the hassle - Spend more time listening to your music and less time managing it. Once your music is online, it's always available. Playlists are automatically kept in sync, and you don't have to worry about cables, file transfers, or running out of storage space.
• Your collection, now in one place - Upload your personal music collection to a single library, even if it's scattered across multiple computers. You can upload music files from any folder or add your iTunes® library and all of your playlists. And when you add new music to your computer, it can be automatically added to your music collection online.
• Mix it up - Create your own custom playlists with just a few clicks. Or use Instant Mix to automatically build new playlists of songs from your collection that go great together. All the playlists you create and all the changes you make to them are automatically available everywhere your music is.

How to get an Google Music Beta invitation :

• Goto Google Music Beta page and click "Request an Invitation >" button.
• If you are not from US, you will be shown an error message as posted below - in this case continue using a US proxy site like www.hidemyass.com to access the page.

• Once the page loads-up Sign-in using your Google account credentials.

• Confirm the request.

• You will now be notified when your number comes for the invite.

Visit : Google Music World Tour

Read More

India to get Apple iPhone 4S Offcially From Nov. 25th, 2011, Pre-order Bookings Open Now

Want to buy the latest Apple iPhone 4S in India via the legal and official channel?, your wait is over as two major Indian cell-carriers Airtel and Aircel have revealed the official availability dates and prices for iPhone 4S in India. Priced at Rs 44,500 for 16GB and Rs 50,900 for 32 GB model (no 64 GB availability for now) the phone is available for pre-order right now and will be retailed from 25 November 2011.

Many of them can have a doubt that "can SIRI understands the Indian accent ?" Just have a look at the video below.

Links to pre-order I-Phone 4S officially in India:
Airtel
Aircel 

Read More

5 Tips to secure your Facebook account

Facebook is one of the top accessed website in the world and most popular social networking website. I'm sure many of you who are reading this, must be spending hours of time everyday on Facebook.

Nothing could be worse than losing your own Facebook account or some one getting access to your Facebook account and misusing it.

But now that there are reports of Facebook accounts being hacked I'm sharing five tips which will help you to keep your Facebook login safe and secure.

1. Enable HTTPS login:

Recently Facebook brought HTTPS enabled login and this is first step to your Facebook account settings > security. To enable this feature, go to edit account settings and under account security enable secure browsing (In older version of facebook). And in new version it is simple, just click on "Secure Browsing" as shown in above pic and mark on "Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) when possible"

2. Facebook device login

This is one of the best feature which will make sure that you will get notified whenever your account is compromised. Whenever your account will be logged in from a new device, you will be receiving an email for the same. To enable this feature, go to account settings > Account security and enable features which says 'When a new computer or mobile device logs into this account'(In older version of facebook). And in new version it is simple, just click on "Login Notifications" as shown in above pic and mark on "Email/Text message/Both".

3. Strong and complex password

 One simple way to get into someone's account is by using hit and trial method for password. Brute force are usually useless these days because of complex security measures taken by Facebook. But if I know you as an individual, I may try to try couple of passwords like your girlfriend's name, your birth date and so on. Most of the time this works. If you wish to be secure your Facebook and other account, you should try using a complex password. More over by changing your password every month and using different password for different account will surely help.

4. Keeping your computer secure

The first place which hackers will target will always be your computer. We have already shared how to keep yourself safe and secure while surfing internet. But let me repeat myself once again, you should be keeping your OS up to date along with Antivirus. If you are tech savvy, I would recommend using any firewall (Comodo is one which I use and recommend) and a Trojan remover.

5. Avoid Facebook spam applications

If you are active user on Facebook, you must have seen spam in the form of Facebook applications like Mark Zuckerberg official announcement and so on. Try not to use any Facebook application if you have not read its review. These days most of such spam applications will spam your friend wall, will ask you to fill a survey or else they will add random people into your account. You can go to application setting page and see which all applications have access to your Facebook account. Disable those which you are not using.

Obviously  there are more tips which will help you to keep yourself safe and secure but following above five you will lower down the possibilities of losing your Facebook account to hackers.

Read More

Facebook accounts being Hacked

The recent Facebook hack has reportedly claimed over 2 lakh victims in Bangalore. According to a news report in Mid Day, some two lakh Facebook users in Bangalore had their accounts hacked and weblinks to their morphed pornographic pictures sent as feeds to friends and family.

Quoting social networking analysts, the report says that more than 2 lakh Bangalore Facebook accounts were hacked. The cybercrime department too is reported to have received calls and complaints regarding the mass hacking.

According to the report, there are around 50 posts on Facebook stating that the users are quitting the social networking site forever after being embarrassed before friends and family.

 Incidentally, according to a Bloomberg report, Facebook claimed that it has identified those responsible for the deluge of hardcore porn and violent images in some users' newsfeeds, and said it is working with its legal team "to ensure appropriate consequences follow."

The social networking company made the statement after porn, pictures of extreme violence and faked photos of celebrities such as Justin Bieber in sexual situations had overrun the profiles of some Facebook users.

Facebook said that it has "drastically limited the damage caused" by a spam attack that took advantage of a browser vulnerability. "Protecting the people who use Facebook from spam and malicious content is a top priority for us," Palo Alto, California-based Facebook said in a statement.

Users were tricked into pasting malware into their browsers, which in turn resulted in the sharing of offensive content, Facebook said.

According to Facebook, no user data or accounts were compromised during the attack.

Meantime, Facebook warned users to never cut and paste unknown code into a browser's address bar, and to always use an up-to-date browser, as well as to flag and report any suspicious content.

 5 Tips to secure your Facebook account

Read More