Security
Encrypting your web connections automatically when possible
Recently, the Electronic Frontier Foundation in collaboration with the Tor anonymous routing project released a public beta of their security and privacy conscious Firefox extension. Inspired by Google’s latest SSL encrypted search option, HTTPS Everywhere extends that concept to other websites. Visiting a website known to the extension will automatically switch your browsing session over [...]
Ensuring safety when someone sends you a shortened URL
The shortening of website addresses is quite handy and useful as you share links across all the social media networks. With limits on the length of your posts wasting 50 characters on a web address just isn’t going to fly. The shortened URL service came about as a solution to communicating long addresses to friends; [...]
Improving security in Windows 7 by renaming Administrator and Guest accounts
Microsoft received a lot of positive press when they proclaimed their recommitment to ensuring security would be a main focus in their products moving forward. The consumers got a brief introduction to the initiate with Vista, where we saw changes such as User Account Control and other security-conscious features. Ignoring the initial venom towards UAC, [...]
Using USB thumb drives to lock and unlock your PC
A few weeks back I wrote to you about how to use a bluetooth device to lock your PC when it’s out of range. The process is quite practical save for one glaring problem, perhaps. Not all of us have bluetooth devices and even few of us have bluetooth functionality on our computers. If that [...]
Using bluetooth to lock your computer
The ultimate security for a computer is removing physical access and leaving it disconnected from a network. Your PC is now a glorified metal box but it’s totally secure! Obviously, this isn’t very practical so some concession will need to be made. Assuming we require network access, physical access to the device can be controlled [...]
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