December 2006 - Posts
In my last post I mentioned that few passwords contain uppercase letters. I also did some further study to see exactly how people use uppercase letters in passwords. Read More...
I thought I would start sharing some of the statistics I have gathered over the last five years researching passwords. One area I found interesting was the use of character sets. I have long said that password length is the single most important factor...
With Microsoft’s ongoing improvements to the patch management process, you may find yourself letting automation take over on patch Tuesday. I sat down at my PC this morning and saw that it had rebooted because it automatically installed new updates...
I am constantly frustrated with poor security implementations I see all around the web. Often, these mistakes could be avoided by never breaking the simple security rules. One of these rules wrote about in my book Hacking the Code is that you should always...
I recently ran across this tool I made for a client several years ago and thought I would share it. It’s basically for those times when you need a little privacy but there are too many peeping eyes around. Just pop open squint and it makes it hard...