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...]
Essential BBcodes for your phpBB Forum
BBcodes are a simple way of bringing added functionality to your forum in a user-friendly way while also protecting your site from vulnerabilities with general html/script access. I'm sure you've seen BBCodes before, they're the little grey buttons above the new post window. You can manually enter the BBCodes if you know them or just highlight text and click the button … [Read more...]
Before you recycle/garbage that old computer!
You've upgraded to a new computer or maybe replaced that old monitor with a shiny new LCD monitor. Congratulations! So much of our daily life is spent using a computer, that we like to have the newest things we can. It definitely makes a difference to your working life. You will notice a difference with the speed at which you can do things and also the overall appearance of … [Read more...]
Prevent the latest exploit in Adobe Acrobat, Disable JavaScript
If you haven't heard already, there is a buffer overflow attack in the wild that exploits the fully-patched and latest versions of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, 8.3 and 9.0. The exploit can come in the form of opening a malicious or poisoned PDF file. You can read more about the specifics of the attack and how it works from an article at The Register. To summarize the … [Read more...]