Archives for the 'Security' Category
Password strength checker [Hack Your Day]
If you want a fun and visual way to check your passwords, take a look at the passwordmeter webpage. It contains a password checker which shows you the strength of your password and breaks it down into many factors, showing their relative weight in the equation and how well you do in each.
It adds points [...]
Spam I can live with [Hack Your Day]
I knew it existed, but I was only faced with it truly when I started writing my blog. There is a kind of spam that I think is a bit annoying, but acceptable. These are the people who own a company or web service, and go around on people’s blogs, writing quasi-useful comments with their [...]
Are Your PDFs Naked? (Windows Wednesday) [Tech Rest]
Do you send PDF files to other people assuming that they are secure? I thought so too but it’s shocking how easy it is to change one.
No hacker tools needed. With Adobe Acrobat Standard 8.0 anyone can easily change most PDFs in such a way that you can’t tell it was changed.
How? All they have [...]
Windows Home Server – Easy Enough For Anyone? [Tech Rest]
Based on my experience: YES!
For several months I have been beta testing Windows Home Server (WHS). It seemed to be a product with a lot of promise but I wondered if Microsoft would make it easy enough for the average person to install.
Well, thanks to great service from NewEgg, I got my copy of the [...]
Stupid Password Tricks [Tech Rest]
Do you have a bunch of passwords that you have to change on a regular basis? Do they have to meet certain requirements? Do you want them to be easy to remember but hard to crack? Then, the tricks shown below may help.
Special thanks to the guys at ESET for these tips. They make my [...]
Infected From a MySpace Page? [Tech Rest]
Can you get a virus or other malware from just viewing a webpage? Absolutely. Not too long ago people got infected from viewing a MySpace page. A similar incident happened when people visited John’s Hardware.
Was the problem the sites? Not exactly. You see the problem was with infected, 3rd-party ads that were on the pages.
This [...]