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In recent weeks a lot of people are facing social-engineering attacks on their Facebook account, but how many of them actually know the mechanics behind them? In this post I have tried to explain some of those tricking Facebook scam, and their working mechanics.

Google Security Team has announced a vulnerability reward program involving all Google web properties. The base reward for a qualifying bug is $500 and if the rewards panel finds a particular bug to be severe or unusually clever, rewards of up to $3,133.7 may be issued.

The Google Chrome browser often shows “insecure content” warning while opening any https page. This may be due to two reasons. One is mixed scripting and other is mixed display. Whatever be the reason you can turn them off. Now Chrome will not show that annoying yellow bar to you.

Microsoft has recently unveiled the Windows Phone Emulator which can be tried by interested people for a demo of working and user interface of Windows Phone. iPhone and Android users can try and experience a quick demo of Windows Phone right on their browser.

3D cameras are now easily available in stores but what about those souvenir images that we had already captured with old cameras? Learn here about a tool that facilitates the conversion of 3D images from normal 2D images. You will need anaglyph glasses to view 3D image.

The great effort of Google Maps team has brought some of most popular ski resorts of this world in Street View. It shows a 360-degree panorama view of the place and the tour is very interactive. This includes Squaw Valley, Crystal Mountain, Breckenridge and so many other ski resorts.

These days almost every website uses social buttons and widgets for spreading their work. But they also affect the browsing by increasing page loading time. Disabling them can speed up your browsing. Here is how to get ride of this social cluttering problem.

Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free and portable antivirus software from Microsoft which is very useful for scanning a system for computer viruses and malware. This is specially helpful when your installed antivirus fails.

VeriSign, Neustar and Afilias has announced that they are going to increase registry and renewal fees for .com, .net and .biz domains effective from 1st or 2nd month of the next year. Overall we are seeing an increase up to 7% in prices.

Bharti Airtel has launched a special integration with Twitter that will allow Airtel subscribers in India to access the micro-blogging Twitter service from their mobile phones for free until March 1, 2012.