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Test how secure are your passwords with Password Meter
Find out how secure are your passwords with this online tool called Password Meter. It would tell if your mother’s surname you use as password is secure enough. This tool able to show you exactly where your password “fails” and where it “excels”.
Putting together Uppercase and Lowercase Letters, Numbers, Symbols makes a better password, but repeating characters or a letters-only / numbers- only passwords make a bad password and Password Meter gives you a low password score.
Most WordPress administrators continue to use the default Username “admin” - this username is very easy to guess, which means all the security burden is left on the “Password”. Find out how secure is this password.
Do something good for yourself – change the “admin” username to something else at your Mysql database.
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Apache Web Servers still under Attack
If you’ve taken the big task and pain in privately hosting your website or blog on the open source web server Apache, or if your web host uses Apache, then beware of the successful attacks Apache servers have undergone in the last months.
The attacks are based on botnot, event though their provenance is still unknown or is not Chinese or Russian for sure.
It is not that Apache has vulnerability issue, but the intruders use a combination of stolen log-in accounts (user name and passwords) and the Apache feature – “dynamic module loading” that most web masters do not master, thus making it difficult to even clean-up an infected site.
If you’re not an expert on security issues than ask for help before some ingenious individual gets into your system and plant malicious ware that can “modify Apache memory to monitor requests and inject the script tag, script contents or the Rbot executable”.
via [ComputerWorld UK]
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The Perfect Mozilla Firefox Blog
Well, after looking at the statistics of my blog, I felt it was necessary to write this post because I noticed about 88.3% of the visitors of this blog use Mozilla Firefox- WOW, whilst only 7.2% of the visitors use IE. If you are one of the 7.2% then know you are EVIL. IE is the cause of about 50% of the problems you could encounter on your system. That evil software ruins your system and mine too, so stop viewing this blog thru the eyes of IE, this blog is made to run better and faster on Mozilla Firefox, like many other blogs or sites around. More»
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Recover your saved passwords with the Firefox Asterisk Revealer
All platforms:
The Firefox Asterisk Revealer reveals the contents of any password whose text is obscured by asterisks in an alert box using a simple JavaScript.
How often do we forget are saved passwords? very often. It takes just a few months of blogging to accumulate so many passwords, I should personally have over 15 different accounts.
So how do I recover the password I’ve saved but can’t remember any more;
Here is your account; More»
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John the Linux Password Ripper
John is a cross platform password cracker that can be used to regain your lost Linux password. It is a good administrative tool for a multi-user system. The Linux version of John, that also has versions for Dos and Windows, comes as a downloadable source code, together with its signature. On Debian based platforms like Ubuntu, it could be installed directly from the repository with
sudo apt-get install John
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Firefox fixes vulnerabilities with the Latest Release Firefox 2.0.0.9
The Mozilla Foundation takes a break to repair the several vulnerabilities the 2.0.0.8. version had. So the latest release Firefox 2.0.0.9. corrects the several problems that were found in the previous release.
But the Linux Magazine says that; the vulnerabilities that version 2.0.0.8 failed to fix still seem to exist in 2.0.0.9. As previously, it is possible to hide part of the source code, preventing users from viewing the code in “View Page Source”. This means that attackers still have the ability to hide malicious code in their websites.
It is strongly recommend to upgrade to this latest release. If you are using Firefox 2.x, then you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates” from the Help menu starting now.
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