If you are a music buff and used to purchase music albums and CDs, chances are that you had come across the restrictive DRM restrictions, which severely restrict your freedom to play these media on different devices, requiring different formats. You might also have found yourself unable to make a duplicate copy of the CD for your own use, even if it is perfectly legal to do so. This is all because of DRM, abbreviation for Digital Rights Management, Restrictions.

What is DRM, Digital Rights Management?

Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term that refers to access control technologies used by hardware manufacturers, publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media Read the full story

15th October 2007. That was the date when this blog was born. And it has just passed through its first Anniversary, quietly without a single post announcing it. Since then, blogging became like a second life for me and now I cannot imagine myself without blogging anymore.

In this one year, this blog has achieved moderate success and is getting about 3-6k pageviews daily.

This blog is live due to some excellent web hosting service provided by Lunarpages.

I had preferred a shared hosting plan from Lunarpages, just like most of the starters and at that time it had touted providing 15GB of web space with 1500GB of BW each month. This has now been increased to “Unilimited” web space and “Unlimited” Bandwidth.

Like most of the beginners Read the full story

The strength of your Internet Security is directly proportional to the care and restraint you exercise while being online. It is a game, where success is determined by how well you are able to be vigilant without getting paranoid.

Talking about the Security tools, there are primarily three types on Security tools available in the market today.

• Desktop Security Tool, which provide you the real time security – for instance your favourite antivirus
• Desktop Security Tools, which do a scheduled / manual scan of your system and files
• and, Online security tools, which scan your system and files.

However, there remains a need for a product Read the full story

Please do not get confused with the title.

Domains cannot be dangerous by themselves. The websites and their creators make the domain name dangerous.

I recently came across a report from McAfee, which states that 19.2% of all Web sites ending in the “.hk” domain pose a security threat to Web users. China (.cn) is second this year with over 11%.

These are significant figures. These are based upon an analysis by McAfee of 9.9 million heavily trafficked Web sites found in 265 different country.

The report ranks the domain names as Read the full story

This is part of a series of everyday Tips for your Internet Security.

URLs are the pathways of the Internet World. Internet happens to be what it is because of URLs. They take you from place to place, from website to website. And this very fact offers the biggest threat to your Internet Security.

If URLs are the gateways to great websites with heaps of information, they are also lead to the bad places and websites, which may cause havoc to the PCs and systems of their visitors. It is only you, who has to decide where you want to go. Be rational, be calm and develop a habit of taking a hard look at the destination before clicking on any URL.

Believe me, this one habit will be worth more than hundreds of dollars you might throw in purchasing the best of the Internet Security Software available today. Remember, prevention is better than cure, and it is true here also. Read the full story