Category: Security

  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Wednesday, June 1st, 2005. Today’s podcast contains one technical suggestion.  Need to wipe a PC hard drive?  Then check out: Darik’s boot and Nuke; Eraser; and DiskZapper. Thanks Kevin Devin’s In The Trenches podcast group email list for the suggestions. The Darik’s Boot…

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  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Tuesday, May 31st, 2005. Today’s podcast contains one information technology management suggestion. "Before You Fire The Company Geek" you should read this post from W2KNEWS.com  from Slashdot (especially the comments): "An anonymous reader writes: "A new ‘insider threat’ survey by the US Secret…

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  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Wednesday, April 27th, 2005. Today’s podcast contains one technical news item, and one subscriber feedback. Arxan Technologies has developed an application that provides effective protection against reverse engineering, code lifting, and unauthorized changes to software applications.  The tool is called "EnforcIT" and it…

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  • Tidbits has a great article by Glenn Fleishman entitled "Road Warrior Scramble" that outlines the protections used by Glenn while attending the recent South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) digital media conference: What I didn’t do is expose my passwords, my browsing habits, my email, or my FTP transfers to anyone…

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  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Monday, Mar. 7th 2005. "Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an…

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  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Friday, Feb. 25th, 2005. Today’s news comes directly from the Mozilla Foundation who has announced an update to their Firefox web browser to fix several vulnerabilities, including one that would allow domain spoofing. We highly recommend the Firefox web browser, and we urge…

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  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Thursday, Feb. 17th 2005. Today’s resource link is to a free collection of scripting tools offered by Microsoft via their TechNet program.  This site is called the "Script Center" and a core tool available from this resource is called "Scriptomatic 2.0" that allows…

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  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Tuesday Feb. 15th 2005. Today’s news is from Help Net Security and is in reference to the availability of a new version of very important computer network security tool.  This open source tool is called NMAP and the current version is 3.81.  It…

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