Disk Wiping Utilities: How to Get Rid of Your Data Permanently

On one sunny summer day, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Those 2 characters are completely fictional and are in no way related to anyone) decided that they’d had enough with their old, sluggish computer and wanted to get a brand new one. After doing a traditional format, Mr. Smith decided to put up the system for [...]

Check out TrackMeNot - a new way to obscure your search habits.

Plausible deniability steps forward.  Let me introduce you to TrackMeNot.  From the site:
TrackMeNot is a browser extension that protects web-searchers against surveillance and data-profiling. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one’s trail), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, [...]

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Blocking brute force attacks under Linux

Marius Ducea discussed three ways how to block brute force attacks under Linux using iptables, PAM and fail2ban. All three posts are quite detailed and well written.
iptables is a tool for packet filtering and NAT. You can use it to setup a firewall with shell scripts. A shell script with just a few [...]

Antivirus tools for Linux - Virus threat to Linux on the rise

I just read in the German magazine Computerwoche (print) that the number of Linux viruses doubled in 2005 (863) compared to 2004 (422). These numbers come from Konstantin Sapranov who works as a virus analyst for Kaspersky Lab. Of course, one has to be always cautious with such numbers especially coming from an anti-virus vendor. [...]

Deleting stubborn files and folders

Sometimes when you try to delete a file or folder, Windows won’t let you. You may get a message like

This situation can arise for a variety of reasons. The worst case is when a virus infection is causing the problem. Here is a page that deals with that situation. Other causes are programs running [...]

Use iPod For Password Recovery

Ever forget you password? Well luckily, we have a quick and easy solution for iPod owners. After completing the following, your iPod will become a password recovery disk, which will allow recovering your system password in case you get locked out. Note: This tutorial is only works for WinXP.
Required Items:

Windows XP Home/Pro
iPod Nano or iPod [...]

Patch Your Computers Now : Bot Spreads Using Latest Windows Flaw

If you still haven’t applied the Windows security updates that were released last Tuesday, you better hurry up and install them now! There’s a worm going around the Web targetting computers that were not patched for the MS06-040 flaw.

Security firms reiterated advice to companies and home users to patch their Windows systems this weekend, after [...]

The Windows XP Checklist

Since the majority of computer users run Windows XP, I made a checklist of essential maintenance tasks that should keep your machine running as smooth as possible. Mac and Linux users might also want to take note as they tend to be the ones being asked for help all the time

Install the latest [...]

Take a closer look at OpenBSD

OpenBSD is quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet. Every step of the development process focuses on building a secure, open, and free platform. UNIX® and Linux® administrators take note: Without realizing it, you probably use tools ported from OpenBSD every day. Maybe it’s time to give the whole operating system a [...]

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