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Punjab National Bank Phishing Email – Beware

January 19th, 2010 gaurav 2 comments

Online Phishing has graduated a lot in the recent years. The huge rise in such online exploits has become possible due to increase in online transactions. Now-a-days one can purchase anything or make transactions with their bank over the internet. Taking the advantage of this a group of exploiters has designed an email to steal bank credentials of people. An example of such recent attacks is attached below.

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Six reasons why Twitter sucks!

September 12th, 2009 gaurav 5 comments

Twitter has reached pinnacle position in quite a short period of time. The unique notion of typing out short tid bits of information has been favored by one and all leading to many similar services. Like most, I have been tweeting for a while but I am not enjoying it. The reason for this behavior? Read on.

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Opera 10 is here!

September 1st, 2009 gaurav No comments

Opera software has always been on forefront when it comes to innovation. The company specialises in web-browser & have once again excited the geeks with its latest incarnation Opera 10. After going through a steady testing process, Opera 10 is finally available for download.

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Mypersonality – Gauge your personality

November 17th, 2008 gaurav 2 comments

These days, the focus in ThinkDigit forum has been shifting from providing technical assistance to imparting socializing tips. The threads in chit-chat section are far more than the other sections combined. The forum geeks seem to be enjoying the off topic threads far more than the regular tech related ones.

A thread by a forum member on how to get develop a good rapport/contact with girls took a strange turn with people posting their personality results. The thread not only got immense response from the forum members, but it also threw light to the social side of the forum geeks. The thread had a post from a member who took an online personality test following which many members joined the site & took the test. Then the geeks went on posting their personality results just as you see in post your internet speed threads. I too thought of giving the personality test a spin & here is what I found out.

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Social Networking – It’s not a waste of time

October 14th, 2008 gaurav 4 comments

You always thought that Orkut users had no other work than doing baseless scraps. Do you hate replying to those baseless and plastic scraps forwarded by your friends? Do you want to use Orkut to some positive effect? If so go ahead, read on. These tips can be used on any social networking sites too, but I have written them just with Orkut in my mind.

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