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 Steve Gibson
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→
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→
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 if there are any vulnerable ports
on you computer to exploit. See if you computer is vulnerable.
Steve along with Leo Laporte host a security podcast call Security Now which covers many advanced security topics.
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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