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[How-To] Connect Securely to Gmail

You already know that Phishers employ various methods to phish your critical data and there are certain ways to protect your data, and one of the ways to protect yourself is by employing the secure connection techniques like HTTPs and checking for that small lock icon in your browser.

Lock Symbol for HTTPS

Source: Technofriends

Be the BOT: Fool websites by changing your Header

Often on the internet we land up in situations, wherein the search returns exactly what we intend to figure out; however, upon following the link and checking the website, just doesn’t show us the content we came looking for. This usually happens because the owners of such websites usually try to trick the end user to buy or register something.

Whenever a request is usually made over the internet, the request also carries something called as “Header”. The Header information has information pertaining to the browser, the user -agent etc. In case of Google search engine bot ( which keeps crawling the web), this user-agent is “GoogleBot“.

Source: Technofriends