by Jovie Cabais | Jun 6, 2011 | Tech Updates
Since its launch in March 2010, Auza.Net’s latest free online server PRCPassers.com (www.prcpassers.com) has served more than 40,000 search queries of names of passers of various Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) board examinations. The website indexes the list of the passers as published by the official website of the PRC and allows the user to search the index very quickly without the need to download the complete PRC list. The results of the Licensure Examination for Teachers in April 2010 was released on May 21, 2010 and generated the largest search traffic exceeding 20,000 queries in less than a week. The website index is updated immediately after any board exam result is announced by the PRC and is one of the most up to date PRC board exam results websites. It is the fastest so far in search capabilities. Auza.Net is encouraging schools and universities to link to www.prcpassers.com to help provide their students a way to search for board exam results. Auza.Net is also accepting list of students from any school or review center in order for the website to be able to include the name of the school or review center in the search results. Share...
by Jovie Cabais | Jun 6, 2011 | Tech Updates
Facebook is probably the largest social network in the Internet today and a few hundred million users around the world regularly post updates about themselves and share information, some of it private, to friends and family. While it is fun and helpful to enhance relationships wherever your Facebook friends may be around the world, users should be aware that they are also exposing themselves to potential danger from identity thieves and malicious individuals. Certain information that can become publicly available on Facebook including your birthday, address, and names of your family members and friends. Facebook has become a venue for criminals to exploit naive users. Users should remove birthdays, addresses, telephone numbers and the maiden names of their mothers as these are information that are used by banks and other financial institutions to verify your identity. Even if you have very strict privacy settings and have limited access to this information to trusted friends, it is possible that one of their accounts can be compromised and your information can become exposed. It is safer not to put such information because it is very easy to compromise a Facebook account, especially if users access their accounts on public computers. You should also be careful when accessing any website at an Internet cafe because some malicious operators intentionally put programs called key loggers which record all characters you typed on the keyboard, thus revealing your account access details. Also, computer viruses may contain code to gather accounts and passwords from Facebook and other popular websites. You should not trust immediately anyone who attempts to befriend you on Facebook because a compromised...
