Turning Off Smart Screen Filter In Windows 8

Smart Screen Filter is deployed in windows 8 for protecting its users to get phished or from visiting dangerous websites that are injected with malware. 

Windows Smart Screen Filter Warning User From Using an Unrecognized Program

Whenever a user tries to open a unhealthy website from security point of view, he'll get the above message shown in screenshot by the Windows Smart Screen Filter, generating a warning message to let the user knew about the malicious site.

Some folks thinks that this smart screen filter  fetches the information from your system e.g. which applications are installed in the system and login credentials stored in them. So, tries to switch it off permanently but always remember you are slashing your security measures that are provided by the Operating System by default.

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Google's Acquisition Continues- SlickLogin Acquired [EXCLUSIVE]

The Israel based firm that is providing overwhelming security to its End Users that uses High Frequency Sound Waves as passwords, going to integrate with search giant Google's security mechanism known as "Two Factor Authentication" soon.

SlickLogin, the company behind the development of Smart Identification Technology has been acquired by Google to mount their technology over its two step verification security mechanism. 

For Google this is the Fifth acquisition in Israel after Waze.

So, wait for the time when you are having with Sound Waves as your Passwords, as Google is always enhancing the way for Security of its users. 

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More than Million Files Stolen from NSA Servers by Edward Snowden

Every internet user might be aware of National Security Agency (NSA). The agency which is responsible for spying the globe by downloading million GB information daily with their specially designed spying software had inadequacy in securing their own systems with highly confidential data. 

Edward Snowden has nearly more than 1.7 Million secret files of NSA which he compromised using a simple web crawler tool which can be freely downloaded from net.

Everyone was heedless that how can he gained access to National Security Agency's servers and crawled the files from them. The intelligence branch officials of NSA stated  that "Edward used Web Crawler tool against NSA's internal network and might had used Passwords of his mates to download the information from server"
This incidence is very shocking as the agency whose job is to protect the nation against various cyber attacks, unable to detect the inside worker of it.
Snowden stated that "he only did this to inform the general public about the government's actions"

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