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Cracking MD5 (Message Digest 5) and now, SHA-1 (Secure Hashing Algorithm), she and her team are a bunch of geniuses. They managed to crack the widely used SHA1 hashing algorithm which supposedly, succeeded MD5 after being scrambled by the same Chinese Associate Prof. Wang Xiaoyun … “SHA-1 Is Now Crack-able”
Read MoreWindows 2000 and later gives you the option to configure your DNS as Active Directory Integrated Zone (ADIZ). This mode is required for name and service automatic update and its super crucial to a successful Active Directory (and some of other MS products like Exchange) … “If you use Windows 2000 DNS (for Active Directory ..etc) use only Secure Updates”
Read MoreGoogle Analytics is a cool free Site Tracking tool from, oh, you guessed it, Google. I use it for my blog sites (this) and other sites that i help manage. The best thing of it is that its free. You would need of course a … “Google Analytics”
Read MoreFunny article. Apparently, some bad-ass Malaysian DVD pirate ring wants to hunt down and kill 2 dogs, Lucky and Flo, apparently, sniffed out their stash of DVDs and caused those pirates RM3mil in losses. As its media worth, Malaysian govt will now beef up security … “Malaysian DVD Pirates Out To Kill Sniffer Dogs?”
Read MoreRSA, famous for its authentication and encryption techniques recently announced a service to protect users from trojans. Called RSAFraudaction, is a service, an end-to-end solution that covers the identification, analysis, blocking, and shutdown of attacks. RSA will get my vote in their offerings. They have … “RSA into AntiTrojan”
Read MoreWas given this site http://www.zamzar.com. It has the facility to convert stuff like movies, document, images and audio straight from your browser to your email. For free, for real!. Did try to convert a MOV (Apple Quicktime) and it did quite a wonderful job. What’s … “Convert stuff for free at Zamzar”
Read MoreWithout much notice, publicity, hue and cry, Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003. This release introduces significant collection of patches and a couple of new features to the operating system. From experience, upgrading SP1 of Windows 2003 a while back broke a lot … “Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 (and XP Pro 64bit) Released”
Read MoreI came across and installed this tool from mozdev.com that protects Firefox (1.5 or higher) against common browser based attacks on malicious sites. You can create your own rules and block off anomalies if you know how to script the rules out. The product is … “Firekeeper – An IPS for Firefox”
Read MoreWhen browsing the internet, your browser does a lot to make websites and pages look pretty to you. There’s frames, pictures, html, java etc. loaded everywhere in these seemingly simple pages. But, there’s more interesting information and source codes being loaded in the process of … “Debug Internet Explorer”
Read MoreIf you run OneCare 1.5 and have a malware email sent to your Outlook email client, there’s a large potential that the OneCare scheduled scanner will place your entire PST file under quarantine or other actions depending on what the administrator has set (which could … “Microsoft OneCare destroys Outlook PST”
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