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18 Mar 2008Ever wonder how real-time imaging software works?
I use Acronis TrueImage Echo for my backups. It's a really handy way of performing live backups and I hear from a lot of folks how they love it. If you've ever wondered how the software is actually able to make backups of the live Windows system without having to reboot into a DOS-like interface, here's how it's done. This is from Acronis support engineer Michael Lee - re-printed with ...
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12 Mar 2008
New way of entering online passwords for brokerage houses
I just heard on the Clark Howard radio show that online brokerage firms are moving towards Web authentication technologies that require you to enter your password with your mouse. This is presumably to help keep the bad guys from gleaning your login credentials using keystroke loggers.I hear about this all the time - especially in the brokerage industry - where the bad guys capture your user name and password (off ...
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04 Feb 2008
Commonly overlooked safeguard for laptops
They're cheap and easy to use but lots of people don't think about them until it's too late. I'm talking about laptop locks like what the folks at office/computer stores and the folks at PC Guardian sell: They're not 100% foolproof -nothing in security is. But they add an excellent layer of defense in public places, hotel rooms, your own office, and even the trunk of your car beyond what ...
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18 Jan 2008
Neat tool to fight off keystroke loggers in web apps
I came across the XecureCK tool in Brien Posey's recent SearchWindowsSecurity.com article. It's an application-specific program that's downloaded as an ActiveX control that must be installed on the user's browser (sort of ironic, eh?). It essentially creates an encrypted link between the Windows keyboard driver and the Web site to keep the user's credentials safe and secure...at least the credentials for that one Web site. Thinking back to my days ...
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12 Jan 2008
Solid backup/imaging tool worth checking out
If you're tired of the same old complex backup software or you have some select systems you can't afford to take the time to completely rebuild after a drive crash, theft/loss, etc. check out Acronis True Image. It's an imaging program like the original Ghost application from the '90s but can also perform select data backups. They have a version for Windows Servers, Linux, and SQL Server as well. The ...
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11 Oct 2007
The industry’s first patch management program?
Apparently I was ahead of my time. Way back in 1996 I wrote and sold a program called LANUP through a consulting company a buddy of mine and I ran on the side. LANUP - short for local area network update - was designed for NetWare operating systems. I wrote it out of desperation because I was administering so many NetWare servers at the time - I needed some automation. ...
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