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Security

Another Identity Theft Risk – The Office Digital Copier

May 10, 2010

Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive – like the one on your personal computer – storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.

All About the SSL Protocol

December 11, 2008

What is SSL?
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Originally developed by Netscape and now a de-facto standard for secure communication over the internet, SSL is implemented by all secure web servers and browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc.
Where SSL is used
The widest use of the SSL protocol is done in browsers. It will [...]

ClickJacking – Is This Link Safe?

October 26, 2008

Thursday, I attended a virtual security tradeshow, put on by InformationWeek and Dark Reading. Several hacker techniques were discussed by the various speakers. One that was new to me was called ClickJacking.
It seems that you can go to a website and click on a link and nothing seems to happen. That has happened to me before. You [...]

Check Your System For Rootkits

August 20, 2008

WHAT ARE ROOTKITS? They’re nasty little tree-like creatures that hide and grow their roots in your computer and wreak havoc on it, that’s what they are!
Actually, a rootkit was originally a Unix term, having to do with granting root access to a file or person. And even now a rootkit is not really a bad [...]

Honeypots.net – Spam Fighter!

August 14, 2008

If you register with honeypots.net, they will help you set up “spam traps” on your site. These traps will help to catch various types of spammers – address harvesters, comment spammers, etc.

A Very Simple Lesson on Piracy vs. Theft

August 3, 2008

OK, ACCORDING TO THIS picture, I didn’t steal this pic - I pirated it.

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Too bad tech manuals aren’t this easy to understand, huh?

Nigerian Fax Scam

July 14, 2008

OMG! I JUST RECEIVED a Nigerian email scam on my fax machine! So now I guess it’s the Nigerian fax scam. Well, actually, it came from South Africa, so I guess it would be the South African Fax Scam. Should I send them some money?
Seriously, Nigerian scams can be deadly! Advanced Fee Frauds, says that [...]

Legal Bud?

July 14, 2008

YOU MAY HAVE BEEN getting emails or comments on your MySpace profile advertising “legal bud”, “legal herb”, etc. Don’t believe them! The ads are coming from servers in Hong Kong, and their IP addresses change every few minutes. It is believed that the sites are set up just to collect credit card numbers.

Possibly the Best-Ever Encryption Program

July 14, 2008

MY NEPHEW IS A PROGRAMMER. Sort of an old-school programmer, one who tries to make his programs small and efficient. He has developed a small but nifty encryption program, and a site to go with it.
It’s called InfoGuard. It’s not a fancy-looking program, but it works. You can download a trial version, which will encrypt [...]

Free Security Check for Your Computer

July 14, 2008

THINK YOUR COMPUTER IS SAFE from hackers, trojans, worms, and other dangers while you are online?
Might be. And then again it might not.
Here’s a great, easy, free way to find out. Go to Steve Gibson’s Gibson Research Center (that’s him in the pic) and use their probe called ShieldsUP! ShieldsUP! is a remote port scanner, [...]