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→
Archive for Security Now
The longer your passwords are the harder they will be to crack. How long should they be and what sort of characters should you use? Steve Gibson on
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of Security Now suggest ten characters. Read More→
For the last six months I’ve been using Lastpass a password manager that is truely extraordinary. Lastpass is easy and safe. Lastpass is everywhere you are. It works on PCs, Macs, Linux and other operating system. Read More→
I’m not a kid but I try to keep up with all of the new technology. I am a huge advocate of Gmail and all of the Google apps. I belong to a computer users group. Those of you who have been to a computer users group knows it’s mostly seniors now. I’m 49 and one of the youngest members. Read More→
I am re-posting the this because it is a very good lesson. You can’t be sure about the security of your computer once it’s been infected! It does not matter what anti-virus or spy-ware program you have. Here’s Leo Laporte and security expert Steve Gibson on Security Now.
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I’ve previously posted about Sandboxie. I use and think it works well but I don’t know why or how. Here is an intire
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about this free program.
