Password recovery questions are great to recover a forgotten password in a matter of seconds. All that needs to be done is to answer the password recovery question to receive a new password in the email inbox. This does however make email hacking a profitable business as email accounts are usually connected to online stores [...]
Secure Google Accounts With Cell Phone Numbers
A Google account offers access to numerous popular and often times important services. This includes access to the popular Gmail email service, Google Docs for storing documents but also access to Google Adsense or Adwords for webmasters. Losing an account, either by forgetting the password or email address associated with it or by a successful [...]
Download Microsoft Security Essentials
You might have been one of the lucky ones who was able to download the beta of Microsoft antivirus software program Security Essentials. Chance is you missed the opportunity as Microsoft has limited the beta downloads to 75000. Users who want to download Microsoft Security Essentials today are notified that downloads are not available at [...]
Antivirus Software Microsoft Security Essentials Tested
Microsoft has released a public beta of their new antivirus software Security Essentials a few days ago. The beta was limited to 75000 participants; A number that was reached rather quickly. Security Essentials are at the moment not available on the Microsoft website anymore but it is expected that the final version of the antivirus [...]
Adobe Fixes Critical Shockwave Vulnerability
Adobe has issues a security patch for their Adobe Shockwave software program that fixes on vulnerability that has been rated critical. The vulnerability gives attackers, who can attack systems remotely, control over affected computer systems. The interesting aspect of the issued patch is that Adobe recommends to completely uninstall Adobe Shockwave 11.5.0.596 or earlier on [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jun 24th, 2009
- Comments: 4
Give users specific access with sudo
If you’re new to Linux chances are you know about Ubuntu. Ubuntu has done a great job making a distribution of Linux new-user friendly. One of the ways they have done this is by making the root user (the super user) somewhat transparent. The user can not log in as the root user in a [...]
Microsoft Security Essentials Beta Now Available
Microsoft has made available the public beta version of their new free antivirus software program Microsoft Security Essentials which was formerly known as Morro. The antivirus software is available for 32-bit editions of Windows XP and 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7.
It was formerly speculated that the beta would be limited [...]
