2016
5 Ways to Secure Your Browser
by 1 other (via)What’s the one piece of software you use more than anything else, day in and day out? For most people, the answer is easy: their web browser.
Hacker shows how easy it is to take over a city’s public Wi-Fi network
In a perfect example of how public wireless networks can be dangerous for privacy and security, an Israeli hacker showed that he could have taken over the free Wi-Fi network of an entire city.
How to stop brute force attacks against xmlrpc.php
(via)According to Wikipedia, XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. “XML-RPC” also refers generically to the use of XML for remote procedure call, independent of the specific protocol. This article is about the protocol named “XML-RPC”.
2010
Wipe, Delete, and Securely Destroy Your Hard Drive’s Data the Easy Way
(via)Giving a computer to somebody else? Maybe you’re putting it out on Craigslist to sell to a stranger—either way, you’ll want to make sure that your drive is completely wiped, scrubbed, and clean of any personal data. Here’s the easy way to do it.
Is Cloud computing secure?
(via)Chip expert and analyst David Kanter has warned that cloud computing poses “definite” security risks for both corporations and individual end users.
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