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Throw Away Web Tools Help Keep Identity Safe

February 10th, 2008 · No Comments

With the growing number of new web applications available how do you know which are safe enough to sign up for and which are not? Sometimes you just want to quickly sign up and tryout the service before committing your actual identity to whomever is behind the site. Well makeuseof.com has a great article about [...]

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Password Management Strategy

February 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Do you have 1 universal password for every thing you do online, or do you follow best practices and create a unique password for everything? If I had to wager a guess I would say a majority of users create 1 or maybe 2 passwords that are both easy to remember and used for multiple [...]

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Trust No One Security Mentality

February 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Just three days ago on February 7th Firefox 2.0.0.12 was released. The bad news is that if you downloaded this version you were immediately vulnerable to a directory traversal trick, via the view-source mechanism. The good news is you can protect yourself from this vulnerability by disabling scripting in Firefox. There are a couple of [...]

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