Security

Comodo Data Breach Gives Web Users A Slap of Reality

by Mike Mansell March 25, 2011

As Internet users, we have always been taught to be mindful of the sites we visit, as some of them may very well be designed specifically to lure unsuspecting visitors into a fraudulent trap. Asides from checking the URL of the site that one is on or logging into, one of the biggest “rules” for [...]

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What Is OAuth and How Can it Make the Internet Safer?

by Keaton Taylor March 24, 2011

Over the last few months I’ve been working on discovering the functionality of the OAuth standard. OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard for authorization. It allows users to share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their credentials, typically a username and password. So [...]

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1Password Review

by Mike Mansell March 11, 2011

After I purchased my MacBook Pro earlier this month, I began looking at the wide range of Mac OS X software titles. Having previously used – and having been extremely satisfied with - KeePassX to manage my passwords and logins while using Linux, I was disappointed to hear from others that the OS X version of [...]

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New OS X Trojan Makes Users Take a Second Look at Security

by Mike Mansell March 1, 2011

Over the last several years as Apple‘s Mac OS X operating system has grown in popularity and user-base, it has become well-known for being a very secure operating system that saw a minimal amount of viruses. With this reputation under its belt, some people have even gone as far as to proclaim that OS X [...]

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Research Shows: Solid State Drives Are More Difficult to Erase

by Jeff Weisbein February 23, 2011

We have been erasing hard drives and other storage mediums for years now with much success by overwriting the data with zeros and ones several times. However, with the adoption of SSDs that may not be sufficient anymore. According to researches at the University of California at San Diego, “newer solid state disks have a much different [...]

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How To: Disable Root SSH Login on Linux

by Jeff Weisbein February 15, 2011

If you have your own server chances are you will want to keep it secure from unauthorized users. One security tip I always recommend to people who are setting up a new server is to disable the ability to login as root with SSH. By disabling root SSH login capabilities you are putting up another [...]

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The One Issue That Stands in the Way of Mass-Marketed Linux

by Mike Mansell February 15, 2011

It seems like just yesterday that I was a user of the ever so popular Microsoft Windows operating system. But truth be told, I have been using Linux as my primary desktop operating system for nearly a year now. In this time, I have learned a great deal about the operating system and have honestly [...]

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Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Finds Over 32,000 Infections On A Single Computer.

by Jeff Weisbein February 12, 2011

We all know how much of a problem malware can be on the Internet and computers in general these days. I just found this picture on the front page of reddit which clearly demonstrates how important it is to have a good anti-malware program installed on your computer. Check out the results from a complete [...]

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Is Your Mobile Phone a Target for Malware?

by Mike Mansell February 8, 2011

Viruses and malware have always been big issues for computer users as a whole. These malicious applications aim at making our computer experiences less productive and flat-out annoying, and it seems as if we have all dealt with these intrusions at one point or another. As it stands now, even though anti-malware products have become a multi-billion [...]

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Are You a Walking Target for Identity Theft?

by Mike Mansell December 24, 2010

Identity theft – the action in which another individual impersonates you in order to defraud an organization or yourself – is not a new concept by any stretch of the imagination. In 1964 when the term “identity theft” was first coined, the majority of fraud incidents involved individuals who physically stole identification and documents in [...]

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