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URL shortener is now available in Twitter.com, Just paste lengthy URL in tweet box along with your tweet on hitting tweet button it will automatically convert it into a short 19 character URL that will show the shortened version of the original URL so people will know which site they are visiting.

Here is a YouTube video from Google security team which helps you to stay safe on the Web.

Chromes new Security feature alerts you when ever you are committed to download a  suspected malicious  executable file. This feature automatically  integrated with in your browser. Malware Warning Warning will also be displayed for any download URL that matches the latest list of malicious websites published by the  Safe Browsing API . The new feature follows the same  privacy policy  currently in use by the Safe Browsing feature. For example, this feature does not enable Google to determine the URLs you are visiting.  

Microsoft has released an important update( KB971029 ) that restricts Autorun entries in the AutoPlay dialog to Only CD and DVD drives. This update is available for Windows XP/Vista/non-Windows. You can download this highly recommend update @  http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=971029

Do you have GPS in your camera or Phone then watch this video

Facebook offers its users to enable https to their accounts to protect from secutiry threats like viruses, malwares and hackers. To enable Secure connection  go to "Account Security" section of the "Account Settings" page from your account, there you find the option to setup secure browsing.

According to NSS labs  Internet Explorer 9 beta protects against 99% of "Social Engineered Malware " that leads to the malicious websites or downloads that could harm your computer. IE9 uses smartScreen URl filtering  to block this kind of malwares.

Governament, Industry and Non-profit Organizations launched first ever Cyber Safety Campaign during National Cyber Security Awareness Month( October ) called Stop. Think. Connect. a simple message   to public and it promotes simple steps to increase the safety and security online.

The free Antivirus from Microsoft celebrates its first birth day with more than 30 million installations in 74 countries in 25 languages. During this year MSE detected over 400 million threats among 366 million threats were already removed by users. And bellow are the words from Eric Foster  About this Successful  first year.

Google Security Team on one of its blog post  tells that, listen to the all warnings on search results and on browsers even the source is trusted one. Because for surely those trusted sites will be under attack. The Security team is confident about the warnings given by scanners. here is the post published on Online Security Blog This week in particular, a lot of web users have become vulnerable. A number of live public exploits were attacking the latest versions of some very popular browser plug-ins. Our automated detection systems encounter these attacks every day, e.g. exploits against PDF (CVE-2010-2883), Quicktime (CVE-2010-1818) and Flash (CVE-2010-2884). We found it interesting that we discovered the PDF exploit on the same page as a more “traditional” fake anti-virus page, in which users are prompted to install an executable file. So, even if you run into a fake anti-virus page and ignore it, we suggest you run a thorough anti-virus scan on your machine. We and others have ...

Google launches Family Safety Center   for families to browse the web safely and securely. Here in the Safety Center they provide Google safety tools which will protect us while browsing. In the Google  Family Safety Center  you can learn how to use Safety tools. Tips and advice about how to stay safe online from partners. Working with Organisations to protect young people. It teaches you Internet Safety, how to be secure and how to behave in the web. The main thing in this Safety Center is Video tips from Google parents . Watch more safety videos on Youtube channel

Microsoft has released several free tools and resources to help individuals and their families increase their safety and privacy online. Here are a few of those tools and resources: Free Internet safety calendar .   Download a free Internet Explorer add-on that offers online safety tips for you and your family. Free online safety ebook .  Download this free book to help teenagers navigate the Internet more safely. You can download the whole book or selected chapters. Research on parents and social networking safety .   Research commissioned by Microsoft shows that parents are very engaged with their children's social networking activities but might not be taking advantage of available tools that can help them.

Google dismissed an employee for accessing users information illegally according to GAWKER . A 27-year old Google engineer accessed data of the four minors through a technology group in the Seattle area while working as a Site Reliablility Engineer at Google's Kirkland, Wash Office. Google Confirmed the security breach and suspended him form Google. Update: Google  has released a statement  confirming it fired Barksdale for privacy violations: "We dismissed David Barksdale for breaking Google's strict internal privacy policies. We carefully control the number of employees who have access to our systems, and we regularly upgrade our security controls–for example, we are significantly increasing the amount of time we spend auditing our logs to ensure those controls are effective. That said, a limited number of people will always need to access these systems if we are to operate them properly–which is why we take any breach so seriously." — Bill Coughran, Senior Vice Pre...

Andrew Cushman, senior director of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft said that people should use updated web browsers when they surf the Internet. and need to do follow things. to stay safe online. 1. Keep your firewall turned on. 2. Keep all your software and your operating system up-to-date. 3. Keep your antivirus software up to date. 4. Keep your antispyware technology up to date. For more information and detailed instructions, Visit Microsoft Security   website. Main image courtesy: microsoft.com/security

Microsoft Security Essentials 2 beta is available to download @  http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ This new version comes up with new scanning engine,better defense against network-based threats, IE integration for blocking web-based threats, and improved integration with the Windows firewall. So download it and enjoy the risk free system. You don't need to download this latest version if you already using MSE, It will automatically updates it. And you can check your version by opening MSE in your PC in the update tab. Main image courtesy: microsoft.com/security

Bee careful when your browser asked you to update your Adobe Flash player. According to Barracuda Labs  -"some sites offers visitors to update Adobe flash  with an official-looking Adobe Flash update page. Even though this page looks convincing, downloading this ‘update’ only provides the user with a nasty piece of malware that McAfee currently classifies as Downloader-CEW.f." And it is recommended that one can update their Flash player at  http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer . only And here is an example from Barracuda Labs " How it happens" - Performing a quick search for a breaking news topic, such as LeBron James opening his own Twitter account, starts the process. Searching for “LeBron James Twitter” gives the highlighted result a rank of 62. Google Results for trend topic "LeBron James Twitter" Clicking on the highlighted result  sends the user directly to the fake upgrade page. Note that the actual domain is registered in the  Cocos Islands .  Also not...

Google Detects fake A V programs after studying 240 million webpages, among them 11000 pages are distributing Fake programs which offer users to scan the system to clean malwares and offer free softwares which will collect user data. Read the full story @ PC World

The New Safety Center from Facebook offers    new safety resources for parents, educators, teens and members of the law enforcement community.

A new study by Barracuda Labs  tells that there are only 21% accounts are active. Barracuda labs studied more than 19 million twitter users and reported that there are only 21% true accounts running in twitter. Read some of the key highlights posted at barracuda Networks.com. Key highlights from the report include: Only 21 percent of Twitter users are actual True Twitter Users1. Overall, users are becoming more active on Twitter. 49 percent of Twitter users, and 48 of the top 100 most followed Twitter users, joined during the Twitter Red Carpet Era2, indicating the significant impact celebrities have on the social networking landscape as they bring their real-world fans over to Twitter. The Twitter growth rate spiked at 21.17 percent in April 2009 due to the Twitter Red Carpet Era. During the Twitter Red Carpet Era, the Twitter Crime Rate3 increased 66 percent, and continued to escalate reaching 12 percent in October 2009, indicating one in eight accounts created was deem...