Computer security forensics can get pretty detailed and pretty involved. In fact, it's almost always best left to the professionals. Even your standard, run-of-the-mill IT professional can get called into court to testify regarding evidence gathered at a scene. When it comes down to justice, you might not want to be the one that gets the blame for a case being dismissed through … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2009
Orb – Stream your media anywhere
I know Orb is nothing new, it really got a lot of press shortly after the Nintendo Wii was released because you could stream your video and music over the wifi to your TV via the Wii. Since then, Orb has made some improvements that really enhance the experience and make it more robust with Orb 2.0. In case you haven't heard of Orb, it's a solution to stream your media … [Read more...]
Power Manage PC Power Management
With Green Initiatives becoming the norms these days, lots of people are looking for elaborate ways to save electricity and reign in their energy-sucking computers. Looking at the numbers, we can see that just turning off something like a CRT monitor when it's not in use can save a lot of juice. There are quite a number of elaborate schemes and utilities (both hardware and … [Read more...]
KeePass – Forget about remembering all those passwords!
There is one basic premise to password security: The longer the better. Mix in upper-case and lower-case letters, some numbers, and some special characters (!, @, $, etc.) and you're talking about a secure password. Unfortunately, a secure password is usually not memorable. This leads to people writing it down somewhere or heaven-forbid taping it to the bottom of their … [Read more...]
Minefield – A 64-bit Firefox
If you're running a 64-bit OS like Windows Server 2008 x64, Vista x64, or any others you might see some performance improvements by your applications also being 64-bit. One such application would be Mozilla Firefox. The 64-bit version is not built by Mozilla, but uses the same code and is compiled for 64-bit operating systems. It received the name Minefield. It keeps up with … [Read more...]