A data security company released a list of the 20 most common passwords.
Of course, these are also the top 20 passwords to avoid, too.
Click through for the list.
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As you may or may not know, Digitivity.org is hosted on Dreamhost. Anyway, they used to boot the operating system from the network to allow for centralized configuration.
Now, they’re moving to local OS’s, which requires rebooting their servers. This means a few minutes of downtime per website as the OS reboots.
There’s a way you can get a custom RSS feed of the problems affecting just the servers you’re on.
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It seems that, anymore, Visa is increasingly encouraging credit cardholders to use their “Verified by Visa” program, in which you’re supposed to enter a secret code to confirm that it’s really you using a credit card number.
The problem is, it’s insecure.
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The technology blog, TechCrunch–which runs on WordPress, was hacked for the second time in 24 hours.
It’s unclear who exactly it was that did the hacking, or how they did it.
But what is clear is that you should take the following basic precautions on your own WordPress blog:
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As I mentioned in a post a few days ago, I was hit pretty badly with a virus infection on my Windows XP installation. One of the symptoms was Windows shutting down almost immediately after logging in. Once I recognized the problem as virus-caused, I set out to root it out. Here’s a log of [...]
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The wedge end of malware code can be made to resemble plain English text. That’s what Slashdot is reporting as the result of research presented at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security by security researchers Joshua Mason, Sam Small, Fabian Monrose, and Greg MacManus.
What they say in their paper is that normally it’s [...]
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I talked yesterday on how RedHat made a change to Fedora 12 to allow normal users to install any piece of (signed) software from the Fedora repositories without a root password. Slashdot reports that RedHat reversed the policy after an onslaught of community criticism. Owen Taylor (longtime employee of RedHat) made what seems to me [...]
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The latest version of RedHat’s Fedora Linux distribution features the ability for users to install software packages without having root privileges. On the one hand, RedHat employees are saying this is only due changes upstream from PolicyKit, but on the other hand, those same employees defended the decision saying that turning off this ability requires [...]
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