Yearly Archives: 2008

If you’re looking for information on how to prepare for or handle Incident responses for your company, educational institution, or even your personal home network then I suggest that you head over to the Internet Storm Center.  This entire month, they are doing a series on Incident Response Teams.  The […]

Alright, so I’ve talked about Password Safe and KeyWallet.  Now I’m going to review Whisper 32.  This program seems more like the Password Manager inside of Firefox than anything else.  It’s a very basic format, where it shows the Service name (myspace for example), then the username, and finally the […]

Yesterday I did a review of Password Safe, and today I’m going to talk about KeyWallet.  KeyWallet is similar to Password Safe in that it locks the data file, and hides your passwords.  But, those are about the only similarities. With KeyWallet, the username and password are stored in a […]

Ok, so here’s the first of my reviews.  I chose Password Safe because it’s the program that I’ve been using for the past 3 years or so.  As you can see by the link, it’s an open-source program—so anyone can improve upon it. The way Password Safe works is, you […]

Ok, so you’ve read the articles about how insecure the concept of “Secret questions” is.  And you want to know how to make a secure password, or where to store your passwords in a safe place. So, let’s talk about Password Managers.  These programs are designed as a one-stop place […]

I was just browsing through some security-related blogs, and came across this posting on Security Tips & Talk.  They’re talking about the ease in which Governor Palin’s e-mail address was hacked, and how it affects you and me. Here’s the problem…  Sites are using “information that’s only known to you” […]

Hey again everyone… Ok, in my last post, I described the backup solutions that I’ve tried and my opinions of them.  Now, I’m getting into my recent lesson. The problem:     Ok, to start, I’ve had some problems with Vista and updates for a while.  Everyone’s had the “failed update” […]

Hey everyone,     I know everyone’s heard over and over again that you should back up your data and programs once in a while.  But, you’re thinking “Who has time to do that?” or “Why should I do that?”  Well, I found out last weekend first-hand, why it’s a good […]

Hey everyone,     This post is a bit late in coming, but still applies.  Occasionally I still get questions from friends (and others) about the differences in Internet speeds, and about the 32-bit/64-bit processors.  So, I thought I’d post my analogies about them here.       They are intended to oversimplify […]

Well, I’ve found something with the University of Phoenix that I’m not too happy about as far as Chrome goes.  I noticed this the last few days, but didn’t think much of it.. Until tonight.  When I post in the forums and download them into a newsreader, Chrome’s rendering of […]