security
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LastPass Earth Day Sale 25% Off
I strongly recommend you use a password manager. My favorite is LastPass. It works across all the browsers I use and all major operating systems. It’s inexpensive and easy to use. LastPass keeps your passwords, secure notes, and using the matching browser extension or app on your mobile device, it can autofill passwords when you…
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How to Get Free SSL Certificate from Inmotion Hosting
One of the somewhat recent developments on the web is that Google is starting to prefer content that is secured with an SSL certificate. It started in 2014 with an announcement by Google and it has been getting coverage by most SEO authorities for a while, like here, here and here. Now, 3 years later,…
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Keeping your Online Activities Safe
This blogpost has nothing to do with making money or internet marketing, but has everything to do with keeping your money and your person online, safe, or I should say safer. This is especially important to internet marketers, webmaster, website owner, business owners and other people that use the internet daily for multiple purposes. I have…
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Your Password will fail you. Here’s how you mitigate the damage.
Recently there has been a series of hacking attacks to several websites, and recently Tumblr released an update to their mobile app to address a security problem. Even if you follow their advice to update your password, the problems with most passwords is that they’re insecure, and or they are used in a dangerous way.…
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Wordcamp Orange County recap. WCOC in Tweets.
Some tweets and commentary from Wordcamp Orange County I got to attend Wordcamp Orange County, and here are some of the highlights in forms of tweets and commentary. I tried to do this earlier this rmorning but the wifi at #wcoc wasn’t working. Ross Teasley – @RossTeasley At #wcoc @notagrouch is plugged in, literally n…
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How Much will the Boeing Phone Cost?
Amazing what the fear for your privacy will do. Need a secure phone? Enter the Boeing phone. Yes, Boeing is about to enter the market of mobile devices. There’s little known about the ubersecure mobile device that Boeing is making. One thing is for sure, you won’t be able to afford it anytime soon. Well,…
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Boss Contests Hack the Heck out of Chrome
Interesting article I came across. Lots of money to be made if you are the top hacker, and even more so if you got the skills and bawls to sell your findings to the top bidder. That’s boss. But Vupen CEO Chaouki Bekrar says he has no intention of turning over details of the sandbox…
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OSCAR Security Event Management
What is OSCAR? OSCAR is a new virtual appliance based application that helps you detect security events rapidly. Think of it as a modern virtual intelligent IDS. Yes, I said intelligent, because it self learns. OSCAR promises to find anomalies on your logs and alert you of them, faster, and more accurately than a security…
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The hackers know this, but do you?
Reality check Part of your job as a System Administrator or Website administrator is to ensure the work you do is safe from attacks and vulnerabilities. Remember that movie where Michael Moore goes around in Canada trying to open doors because he heard that people there don’t lock their doors? Do you remember what happened?…
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SSH Remote Host Identification has changed.
I often encounter the annoying warning shown below. WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! It most often happens when the machine which I’m trying to connect has been re-installed. There are other reasons why you might get this but the root cause of it is exactly what the warning says. Watch out! someone could be…