From the category archives:
This article outlines 9 different ways you can secure your WordPress blog/site. Security is often an overlooked aspect of blogging, but a few minutes making sure things are secure can save you hours and hours of ‘fixing’ if someone decides to mess with your site. [click to continue...]
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Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol.
This tutorial will guide you in installing, setting up and using Vidalia - a cross-platform interface for Tor, in OS X. Using Vidalia, you can start and stop Tor, view the status of Tor at a glance, and monitor Tor’s bandwidth usage. Vidalia includes Tor itself, and privoxy - which is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities. This might all sound a bit confusing, but it’s actually quite straight forward. [click to continue...]
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This tutorial will guide you in using the open source (free) utility Eraser. Eraser is an advanced tool which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. [click to continue...]
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In a nutshell, Sandboxie allows you to run Windows programs in a “safe” environment, called a sandbox. This tutorial will show you how to set up and use Sandboxie. [click to continue...]
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From this Washington Post article:
Internet spammers launched a widespread attack on e-mail inboxes this month. But instead of trying to lure users into opening a corrupted attachment, they’re concealing a computer virus in a link to an online greeting card.In most cases, the subject line informs recipients that they’ve received a greeting card or a postcard from a “friend,” “family member,” “worshipper,” “school-mate” or “neighbour.” When the e-mail is opened, there’s a link to a Web site that uploads a virus to the recipient’s computer.
I’ve received about 40 of them over the last week.
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This brief tutorial will show you how to “allow” a program to access the Internet when the Windows Vista Firewall is enabled (which is by default). [click to continue...]
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Note: this is an updated tutorial. It was originally published in Aug. 2006, but has been updated to reflect changes in Ad-Aware.
This tutorial will guide you in using Ad-Aware 2007 to check your PC for Spyware, and then remove it if any is found.
Spyware is any technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge or explicit permission. Spyware silently transmits user information via the Internet to advertisers. In addition, Spyware will very often cause your PC to perform very poorly (slow browsing and downloads, program crashes etc). [click to continue...]
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This tutorial will take you step-by-step through setting up your PC and Webcam to act as a motion-detecting and recording security camera system. And the software required to do this is open source (free). [click to continue...]
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How to remove Spyware from your PC (part 1) guided you in using Ad-Aware SE Personal to remove Spyware. This tutorial will guide you in using Spybot Search & Destroy to find anything that Ad-Aware may have missed, and to use it’s “immunize” feature to pro-actively help avoid Spyware from showing up on your system in the first place. [click to continue...]
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From freenigma.com -
freenigma adds privacy technology (with strong e-mail encryption) to your favorite webmail service (gmail, hotmail, yahoo etc)
Today, all your e-mails are stored and sent around the planet in plain text. And today you have no control over what happens to your private or business e-mail conversations and you can’t prevent others from reading them. Get your privacy back! Encrypt your private and business e-mails to protect your freedom, privacy and your business secrets.
This tutorial will take you step by step through setting up and using freenigma [click to continue...]
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You’ve checked to see if your ISP offers free Anti-Virus software, and found out that it doesn’t. No need to worry (or spend $), you can use the free edition of AVG Anti-Virus and this guide to make sure your PC is virus free… [click to continue...]
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Why should you disable Remote Assistance and Remote Desktop? Because either service could be used or exploited by an attacker to gain remote access to your system. The steps to disable these services are outlined below.. [click to continue...]
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The following 10 steps offer a very common sense (though often overlooked) approach to avoiding spam. If you follow these guidelines, you’ll notice a drastic decrease in the number of annoying messages that make it into your inbox… [click to continue...]
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Did you know that most broadband ISPs are now offering their customers free security software? Some (Telus.. Verizon..) offer a “discounted” monthly package, but most offer a full Anti-Virus, Firewall, Spyware removal suite - as long as you’re an active (paying) customer. Fore more details - and to see what your ISP offers, read on .. [click to continue...]
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If you’re tired of Windows constantly reminding you to turn on a Firewall or install Anti-Virus software, a few clicks can stop that pop-up notification from happening again.
While a Firewall and/or Anti-Virus software is always a good idea to have installed on any PC running Windows XP, there are times when they may not be needed. Or perhaps you DO have a Firewall and Anti-Virus software installed but Windows doesn’t recognize it, and constantly nags you to install one. To stop those annoying reminders, follow the instructions outlined below.. [click to continue...]
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