How To Recover Deleted Digital Photos from Digital Camera’s Memory Card

PC INSPECTOR Smart Recovery is a data recovery program from CONVAR for Flash Card, Smart Media, SONY Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card or any other data carrier for digital cameras. If you have unintentionally deleted or formatted pictures, videos or sound files on your data carrier or have pulled it [...]

Quicktip - Forgot your grub password? Here’s how to change it.

Say you have a grub password to keep nefarious evil-doers from modifying your er… grubs. Then say a few months go by and you decide to modify some stuff but you’ve forgotten your password.
What do you do? Well, you can try this.
First, open up a Command Line Interface terminal (CLI) and type:
grub
Now you’re [...]

Find out your bios password

The bios can be protected with a password to prevent others from accessing its settings. You have to enter the password to be able to access it, if you can’t provide the correct one the access gets denied. The following method describes a way to recover the password if you forgot it or bought a [...]

Test your Anti-virus program

Do you know that your anti-virus solution is working ? You could try to test your anti-virus program against the EICAR (European Expert Group for IT-Security) test file to see if it reacts the way it should. All you need to do is create the testfile and scan it with your virus scanner. If the [...]

Why and how to disable the UAC elevation prompts (Secure Desktop Prompting)

Yesterday, I described how to start an application at an elevated level, i.e. with Administrator privileges under Vista. Unfortunately, this won't prevent UAC (User Account Control) prompts from getting on your nerves. Every time a user or an Administrator runs an application requiring Administrator rights, UAC will prompt you for confirmation to proceed. Microsoft calls [...]

How to bypass Internet Censorship

If you are looking for a comprehensive, and I mean really really comprehensive, guide on bypassing internet censorship you might want to take a look at the excellent guide written by Freerk. The guide is divided into two parts; The first analyzes different methods to censor information on the internet and the second part describes [...]

How-to Secure Your IRC Connection

This is a follow-up post to my first post about how to secure your mIRC client. Securing your IRC connection is important in order for you to stay anonymous.
One way of securing your IRC connection is by encryption using SSL.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which [...]
How-to [...]

Free Online Security Scan Websites

Many sites offer to scan your computer for viruses online which should be seen as a last resort because this method has advantages but also disadvantages. If you scan your system online you can be sure that the latest virus definitions are used while scanning your system and that the script that is running was [...]

Security Concerns In Linux

Part of the reason I am switching to Linux is, from what I have been told, it is superior to Microsoft Windows in the area of security. I think the reason is at least twofold.
1. People are out to get Microsoft i.e. trojans, viruses, and spyware. Of course when considering the effects of micro-evolution, this [...]

Security Engineering - The Book - Is Now Online

Just a quick post to let you guys know that Ross Anderson, famous author of “Security Engineering”, has just made his book available online for free. “Security Engineering” is one of the best computer security books available out there, so if you want to learn more about this subject, do yourself a favor and go [...]

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