Posts Tagged ‘Steve Gibson’

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 [...]

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 episode 256 of  Security Now suggest ten characters.

I will tell them that Gmail with its 256bit AES plus SSL is more secure then what they’re using now, unencrypted POP mail. (Assuming a good pass word is being used.)

Shields Up

Posted: February 18, 2010 in Security
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Are you secure on the net? May you are! Maybe you aren’t! The Internet is always being monitored by hackers, bots and other things looking for computers that have open ports that can be attacked. ShieldsUP is a site from the security and harddrive expert Steve Gibson at GRC.Com. ShieldsUp scans your computer to see [...]

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.