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Microsoft’s Password Checker does not collect, store, or transmit information beyond the computer that you use to access Password Checker. The image works on your computer desktop until you navigate away from the page.
The security of the passwords entered into Password Checker is similar to the security of the password you enter when you log into Windows. The password is checked and validated on your computer, but is not sent over the Internet.
Finally someone is putting out a complete linux alternative to Exchange and Outlook. This is the first solution that is all in one server.
You can easily update your Twitter status from the command line using cURL. The Tech-Recipes blog posted this handy command line hack:
With cURL installed, you can post to Twitter from the terminal window by using the following syntax:
curl -u yourusername:yourpassword -d status="Your Message Here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xmlYou will receive a response containing the XML coding for your post which acts as a confirmation that your post was submitted.
Consider this: instant messaging is the new talk (phone for my VMS peeps) and Twitter is the new finger. It’s nice to see at least one of these handy communication tools make its way back to the command line.
Posting to Twitter from the Terminal Window – Link
cURL downloads – Link
BTGuard reroutes all your BitTorrent traffic through their servers in Canada. This means that anyone who connects to you via BitTorrent, even the MPAA or RIAA, will see BTGuard’s IP, and not yours.BTGuard does not have any bandwidth or volume restrictions, and while we briefly tested the service (from Europe), the speeds were almost equal to an unsecured connection. Setting it up is fairly easy, the only thing you need to do is enter the username and password provided by BTGuard, and you’re ready to go. Please note that this is only a proxy service, so the traffic between the user and the server is not encrypted, which means that ISPs can (potentially) still monitor it.
TorrentFreak asked one of the founders of the project why they launched the service, he told us: “More and more, people find their privacy being invaded on the Internet and we find it to be a very disturbing, unethical trend. There are some countries that still actively protect privacy, one of which is Canada.”
The BTGuard team decided to setup in Canada not only for privacy protection, but also its close network proximity to the US. “The US is experiencing a privacy invasion epidemic more so than most. ISPs are issuing disconnection notices with little regard for privacy or the accuracy of those who notified them.”
Sunbelt Software is reporting a wave of spam pushing a new variant of backdoor trojan malware.
The spams they show all advertise “3D BeST Screensaver” or “3D Flsh screen$aver” or something like that; “Download for free” and a link. The pages to which the links take you are well-executed and look professional.
As of their initial analysis, the malware was very poorly detected by popular antivirus programs. Only 7 of the 32 programs in their VirusTotal scan detected anything (follow Sunbelt’s links for more details). This will surely have improved by the time you read this, as all those companies have samples.
The site on which the malware is hosted is a strange one. It sells war memorabilia for the US Civil War, the World Wars and “Indian Wars” (as in India, not the American west). The company which owns the site is located in Pakistan. Sunbelt Software says the malware pages seem to be installed through a compromise, but there’s no real effort to hide them.
