Adobe held good on their word and released a patch for Adobe Reader and Acrobat, bringing them up to version 9.3, to patch a serious exploit with the Javascript engine inside of Reader and Acrobat. This is the the third time the Javascript engine has been exploited leading many people to disable it completely. For information on how to disable Javascript inside Adobe Reader and … [Read more...]
How to Take Down a Copyright-Infringing, Scammy Site
I took down PCwilleasy.co.cc! There, I'll admit to it. I am the one who did it. I know this might disappoint the 1500 followers the pcwilleasy Twitter account still has, but it was for everybody's best. Here's the why: PCwilleasy was a copyright infringing site. It copied articles word for word from legitimate sites and often displayed the images, hotlinking them from the … [Read more...]
Kon-Boot – Log into a Windows Admin Account with no Password
When people find out you "work with computers," there is no limit to the number of mind numbing things you'll come across. I've received computers that I'm supposed to get working right away without being told any credentials to actually login. There are plenty of other scenarios where it's completely necessary and justified to "hack" an Admin password. In the past, in … [Read more...]
scr.im – Safely Share Your E-mail Address
Scr.im combines an e-mail shortening service (exactly like the URL shortening services bit.ly and TinyURL.com) with CAPTCHA to make it convenient to share your e-mail address on sites like Twitter while being more secure from bot harvesting when you would post it anywhere. It's also a lot better looking and more definitive than the steps people take to hide their e-mail address … [Read more...]
Installing Tynt Tracer on WordPress for Copy Protection
Having been a victim of blog-scraping (my articles hosted on another site typically with somebody else's ads) multiple times now, I've always kept an eye open for tools that help protect against copyright infringement like installing MyFreeCopyright.com on WordPress. I recently had another bout of blog scraping from a Blogger site and Google has since shut the page down, but … [Read more...]