I have been complaining for quit some time now that Yahoo has a hole in its security. After using the secure login to access your email and other Yahoo tools you then are forwarded to an insecure page, leave your login cookie visible so anyone to see your password. Other websites fixed this long ago after “Firesheep” demonstrated the potential of the vulnerability. Read More→
Archive for Security
Iyaz and Leo tell you “How To” make your tech life more secure.
- Setup two factor authentication in Google,
- How to set up 2-step verification on Facebook,
- Backup and lie. (learn more) Read More→
Iyaz and Leo tell you “How To” make your tech life more secure. Read More→
Microsoft has released a new tool to help with their never-ending battle to defeat mal-ware on Windows PCs. Called Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper or MSSS it is a bootable live CD that is just a basic Windows environment with MS Security Essentials on it. Read More→
Wow! That was quit cool. I was just doing some research for a presentation that I’m doing and ran across something which I’ve only dealt with its aftermath. Read More→
The Secunia PSI is a FREE security tool designed to detect vulnerable and out-dated programs and plug-ins which expose your PC to attacks. The only way to avoid these attacks is to always keep your software up to date. Windows Update does this for your Windows operating system but what does it for the rest of your software. That what Secunia PSI does. It is an invaluable resource.
Microsoft’s very good security suite “Security Essentials” will now be offered in Windows Updates. This is a great step forward in making this very good and free antivirus available to everyone not just to the geeks how know where to find it. Read More→
In my previous post Firesheep I told you about a very easy hacker tool that enables the user to log in to password protected accounts of others user where the site is not using HTTPS correctly. Read More→
Firesheep is a Firefox extension that monitors traffic on a network and records session information that is stored in a Web browser’s cookie. It was introduced last month at Toorcon (a hacker conference in San Diego CA” by Eric Butler of “codebutler” to demonstrate the danger of sites changing their sessions back and forth between secure and insecure. Read More→
Programmer extraordinaire and Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani and Leo Laporte talk about Lastpass the incredible cloud based password manger. Read More→
