Category Archives: Security
Be careful what you name your images
I uploaded an image called “PastorAdvert.jpg” to the church website, but every time I tried to view it using FF or IE I got redirected to this url: http://127.0.0.1:1040/clear.cgi? which downloaded a 10×10 px clear image. It appears that ZoneAlarm was tagging the image as adware, simply because the image was named “…Advert.jpg”. I renamed [...]
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Replace WEP with WPA – now!
I’ve finally got round to replacing my WEP-secured wireless LAN with WPA. I’ve been meaning to do so for a while but was spurred on yesterday by a BBC article that suggested that it was possible to crack WEP-secured networks within 2 minutes using the latest cracking software produced by Darmstadt University. The Darmstadt team [...]
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