Author Archives: Shobhit Gupta

About Shobhit Gupta

I am Shobhit Gupta, a graduate from IIT-B and the CEO of www.notesonwheel.com (http://www.facebook.com/notesonwheel) I am here to let you know about quick tricks to solve problems and to keep people protected from system attacks. Also working on www.hiddenage.com is an initiative of me and my friends (Shashi P. Agarwal, Anshul Jain, Vidit Katlana) for promotion of scientific talent among young ignited minds. You can join me at : http://www.facebook.com/shobhitpkgupta

OMG! Kid expelled from his school? No, it’s a viral Facebook survey scam

By | November 13, 2010

Yet another survey scam is spreading virally across Facebook, earning revenue for the con artists behind it. You may well be one of the thousands of people who have seen messages like this posted by one of your Facebook friends. OMG! Look What this Kid did to his School after being Expelled! After this 11 [...]

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Facebook to encrypt user IDs to block ‘inadvertent sharing’

By | October 23, 2010

Facebook has introduced plans to encrypt user IDs in a move seemingly designed to placate critics following recent privacy kerfuffles. The social network prohibits the sharing of user IDs with data brokers in its privacy policies. However, It’s reported earlier this week that personally identifiable information was shared by developers of some of the most [...]

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Damage limitation: Mitigating exploits with Microsoft’s EMET

By | October 21, 2010

Security vulnerabilities in applications have become an everyday problem. Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) activates extra protection mechanisms included in recent versions of Windows, which are able to frustrate many attacks. However, getting the configuration right can sometimes be harder than you might think. EMET is able to thwart or at least reduce the reliability [...]

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Wink eReader – India’s answer to Kindle

By | October 21, 2010

Enjoy over 200,000 titles with Indias first e-book reader. Book lovers can now look forward to reading nearly 200,000 titles on the Internet in 15 languages with the help of a new e-reader, that has been billed as an answer to Amazons Kindle. Bangalore-based digital publisher EC Media International has come out with The Wink [...]

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