I don’t remember which version I installed first when I started this blog back in Nov’06 but I followed the upgrade cycle with every release till 2.1.1. I became a bit lazy and did not follow the security exploits news that kept circulating on net about WordPress security exploits with version 2.1.1 and few other [...]
Millions of laptops gets stolen every year and information worth millions of dollars is lost. Many organizations throughout the world keep losing confidential data from their office computers and some of them don’t even know about it. What if your laptop gets stolen - what kind of data resides on your system - what could [...]
KeePass is a free, open-source and encryption supported password manager for Windows that stores all your passwords in an encrypted database using industrial strength encryption algorithms such as AES and Twofish that requires a master key password to access any of the passwords stored in it.
Key features of KeePass password manager utility are:
Strong Security - [...]
There have been many phishing attacks happened in the past but this one seems to be a major one with fraudulent emails hitting email accounts and they all are being sent from numerous email addresses. The website address used in this attack are different ones and attempting to trick Bank Of America customers to click [...]
We all know that while surfing Internet we leave our information and whereabouts behind us in the form of IP Addresses in the log files on the remote web servers of the sites that we visit. But did you know that this may unknowingly lead you into trouble? How? - Let’s quickly run through a [...]
Matt cutts is currently the head of Google’s Webspam team and frequently blogs on his site.
I am a subscriber to his blog and use Netvibes to read the RSS updates from various sites and since yesterday the blog of Matt cutts was showing up an error message in Netvibes. I initially thought it be to [...]
That’s right! It will be your own Linux distribution that you can name after yourself or any one else. If you have not heard about it already, it’s called LFS [Linux From Scratch] project that will let you create your own Linux distribution.
What are the advantages of LFS?
Learn the internals of Linux: If you are [...]