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This could be something already commonly known among experienced Windows Vista users, but there are still a fair amount of users who are unaware of it.
User Account Control (UAC) is a feature introduced in Windows Vista to improve the security of Windows by limiting applications to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase [...]

As promised, for those who are on UltraVNC, securing your VNC over Internet is very easy with a DMS plugin available for encryption. There are currently 3 encryption plugins for UltraVNC, namely MSRC4, ARC4 and AESV2. I’ll demonstrate how to use the MSRC4 plugin as this is well documented on the UltraVNC forum and it’s [...]

Continuing CK’s article on VNC where he left off, here’s the VNC-over-Internet remote administration version of the guide. The first part of the tutorial is the setting-up of VNC-over-internet and the second part deals with hardening your VNC in regards to security best-practices. This article is gonna be a long one, so take a deep [...]

The only way to ensure that deleted files, as well as files that you encrypt with EFS, are safe from recovery is to use a secure delete application. There are numerous softwares to securely delete sensitive files off your hard drive. In this tutorial we will be using SDelete (by previously sysinternal) which can be [...]

With the widespread of Internet access and online monetary transaction (for example, online banking, online shopping etc.) has become increasingly common and important, security definitely is a no-joking matter. Nobody wants to put their hard-earned money in danger while committing online transaction, and the paranoid among Netizens is understandable.
Therefore, I’m here to write some common [...]

MacGyver, the guy who could disarm a nucler warhead with 3 paper clips, some dentist floss, and a broken screwdriver; all while hacking into your wifi connection.
Ok…I’m not sure if he actually did that in the TV series, but I’m certain he has picked a couple of locks before. That is what I am about [...]

As a heavy Interbutt Internet user, I’ve too many login/passwords to keep and remember. Forums, webmail accounts, blogs, online banking, ISP password, all together 40 of them.

How about using a web browser that was created by a hacking group and uses technology backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (a digital rights group) to surf the web anonyously for those paranoids out there sound? We’ll the author, casting the conditioning built-in warnings in respect to using applications created by hackers, did just that for the [...]

Today we’ll go over a simple way to encrypt sensitive files on your hard disk, external hard disk, usb thumbdrive and CD. TrueCrypt is a free, open source encryption application that works on Windows and Linux. It creates a virtual hard drive in the form of a single file that will read and write encrypted [...]