As the fraudsters are now becoming more sophisticated in bypassing the Geo-location controls by using proxies (Anonymous IPs) to spoof their IP address, it has become very much necessary to come up with a means for detecting the proxies so that the authenticity of the users can be verified. Using a proxy (web proxy) is…

There are as many different types of bloggers as there are faces. But there’s something that every single one of them has in common: they all started with a hope, an excitement, a feeling that what they were beginning could actually be something. And if they could just do it the way they could feel…

Logging in to Facebook? Sure, you can use the social networking site’s full Web address, or you can just type www.fb.me. The keystroke-saving shortcut is possible because the government of Montenegro makes its “country code top-level domain” — the .me suffix — available to commercial and private Internet users, for a fee. Facebook and other…

Web browsers have been around for over two decades. With the introduction of the NCSA mosaic web browser in 1993, web browsers as we know them today, came into existence. Netscape Navigator was introduced in 1994 as a free for personal use only and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 1.0 in 1995. Both were influenced by the…