2007 March

Some nice folks have recently told me about broken links in the article. Thank you! The NTFS4DOS tool I specified is still available. Datapol is still alive, apparently having been acquired by Avira, the German company who makes the free — and very good, I might add — antivirus program, Antivir. Here’s the full orignal [...]

In How to Secure Your Computer: Maxim #3, I stressed the importance of changing the default username and passwords of all configurable network devices. That’s good advice. But a weak password, one that is easily guessable, is almost as bad as no password at all.
For example, if you use a password that conforms to common [...]

In How to Secure Your Computer: Maxim #2, I stressed the importance of having a NAT router between your PC and the Internet. While that is without question the first, most important security step, it alone is not enough. The router itself is a weak point unless you have it properly configured.
All routers come with a default username [...]