Well if DBAN doesn’t cut it for some reason there’s always a more native Linux way to do this. Step one is getting a Linux live CD, DVD or USB stick and boot from that. I used the Debian Live CD myself, which boots into character mode so you don’t end up with XServer not [...]
I read this article recently on how this guy hacked his neighbours WIFI access point relatively easy. After that I wondered how easy it would be to crack my own WIFI network because my password wasn’t all that complex. In fact, it even has some dictionary words in it. So I got me a copy [...]
I was looking into getting some ebooks so I googled around a bit and something came up that was offering a nice deal. In fact, it was so nice that a little warning indicator popped up in my brain. It was looking a bit too good to be true, you know, the typical signs of [...]
Easier said than done is one of those expressions that applies nicely to managing your online account passwords. The rules are, as said, rather simple: 1. Use a complex password. 2. Do not reuse your password for multiple sites or services. A password like “pqu9ijLrFcDvmiphXRGo” is super-secure, but it’s pretty damn hard to remember too. [...]
I see a lot of guides about this online, but a lot of them are using tricks that don’t really add any real extra protection when choosing a good complex password. You make a password hard to crack by combining upper & lower case letters, numbers and a few special characters to increase the passwords [...]
September 7, 2011 – 20:53
Did you know that when you search on the popular search engines these days you’re actually doing that from inside a “search bubble”? Google, Bing and Yahoo all do it, to give you more tailored and “relevant to your interest” results. Let’s take Google for example, since most people are using that one anyway. They [...]
This has been circulating on twitter but is important enough to have it echo here as well. A lot of websites like Facebook, twitter etc are not using a secure way to transfer their login info. In fact once you’ve logged in using a secure HTTPS connection they simply use a browser cookie to “remember” [...]
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