I’m running Windows 7 Professional. Is there any way to make a user’s directory (anything under C:UsersFoo) encrypted? I’m looking for something like Apple’s FileVault feature. When I login as an administrator and attempt to access a standard user account’s files, I can access them without having to enter any password. This means that standard…
I’ve never quite got this. Just say you write a small program in any language at all which rolls some dice (just using dice as an example). After 600,000 rolls, each number would have been rolled around 100,000 times, which is what I’d expect. Why are there websites dedicated to ‘true randomness’? Surely, given the…
So I was thinking about viruses recently, and wondering how exactly antiviruses keep up?Considering anybody who’d been coding for a few weeks could hack together something do do nasty, nasty things to somebody’s PC, the quantity alone would make a simple list of hashes prohibitive, so how do antiviruses do it? Do they monitor process…
How can I retrieve a list of the SSL/TLS cipher suites a particular website offers? I’ve tried openssl, but if you examine the output: $ echo -n | openssl s_client -connect www.google.com:443 CONNECTED(00000003)depth=1 /C=ZA/O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd./CN=Thawte SGC CAverify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificateverify return:0—Certificate chain 0 s:/C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc/CN=www.google.com i:/C=ZA/O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd./CN=Thawte…
A random popup appears in Windows 7 titled as Information with a progress bar and a clock. The window sometimes says Please wait a moment…, and the progress bar moves very slowly and disappears. I don’t know the source of this popup. I tried to search regarding this popup on the Internet, and some people…
Of course preventing them from getting stolen is the top priority, but invariably, someone is going to get jacked. What are some good practices to minimize the damage incurred when your PC is stolen? Given most of our PCs contain our entire lives, its frightening to know that all this information can be in someone…
I completed a project a year ago. Now a few modification were needed. While trying to test the site, there was an index.html file with a malicious script which had an iframe to another site’s jar file. Kaspersky antivirus blocked it. I browsed via ftp to find the file and I deleted it. I also…
From a (very long, but definitely worth to read) article on SSDs: When you delete a file in your OS, there is no reaction from either a hard drive or SSD. It isn’t until you overwrite the sector (on a hard drive) or page (on a SSD) that you actually lose the data. File recovery…
Is windows built-in Remote Desktop secure? I mean, does it use any encryption methods? or someone can hijack the data that have been transferred between two system? Solution: There are two aspects of the security you should be aware of, how it creates the connection and how the connection is secured. There are two different…
Does anyone have a link to a good, but short (1-2 paragraphs) explanation of the benefits of using GPG/PGP signing and encryption for Email focused at non-technical readers? That is, why would someone care about email being signed? I’ve looked but all I ever find are deeply technical, jargon filled documents; perhaps my Google-fu is…
