Use scr.im to get less spam

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Leaving your email as plain text in forums, on Twitter or on classified sites makes you an easy spam target: spam robots and email harvesters constantly browse these sites to collect new victim emails. Don't share your email on public sites. Instead, use our free service that will convert your email ...

Carbonite Can Decrypt Your Data

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Yes, your data is encrypted before it gets sent up to their servers for storage (via an SSL connection), but Carbonite keeps a copy of the decryption key on their servers in case they need to decrypt it for various reasons.  It's stated in their Privacy Policy so it's not ...

Mozilla Tests More Secure Firefox

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Mozilla on Wednesday posted preview builds of its Firefox browser with security enhancements designed to mitigate the risk of certain Web attacks. In a blog post, Brandon Sterne, security program manager for Mozilla, asks security researchers and server administrators to help test the changes by downloading a build appropriate for their ...

Trend Micro RootkitBuster

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Most security software programs that are available these days provide protection against rootkits as well. There are on the other hand a few security programs that deal solely with rootkits. One of them is Trend Micro’s RootkitBuster which has just been released in a new version which adds the ability ...

SSL trick certificate published

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

On the Noisebridge hacker mailing list, security specialist Jacob Appelbaum has published an SSL certificate and pertinent private key that together allow web servers to avoid triggering an alert in vulnerable browsers - irrespective of the domain for which the certificate is submitted. Phishers, for example, could use the certificate ...