What I’m Into: lately

symbolsIt’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from June 29th through July 6th:

Report: Meat Now America’s No. 2 Condi­ment | The Onion –What if?
Sixty Sym­bols — Physics and Astron­omy videos –Nur­ture your inner sci­ence nerd (you know you’ve got one). This […]

PCI Compliance exposed for the joke it is

From an Asso­ci­ated Press article:

More than 70 retail­ers and pay­ment proces­sors have dis­closed breaches since 2006, involv­ing tens of mil­lions of credit and debit card num­bers… Mean­while, many oth­ers likely have been breached and didn’t detect it. Even the com­pa­nies that had the pay­ment industry’s top rat­ing for com­puter secu­rity, a seal of approval known […]

Mac users take note: Disable Java in your browsers

A friendly pub­lic ser­vice announce­ment to the droves of Mac-toting neti­zens out there who browse the webs with an inflated sense of secu­rity:  Your sys­tem is weak.  Whether or not you decided to ignore the warn­ing signs and upgrade to the lat­est OS X 10.5.7 recently, you are all equally sus­cep­ti­ble to an exploit that […]

Added security for your desktop, part II

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Stum­bled across this post on Mac desk­top lock­ing and and learned a few things myself.  They cover the Key­chain Access method.  They also high­light some nifty/useful wid­gets and preference panes.

Via UsingMac.com: Lock Your Mac Desk­top (Part II).

Recent Firefox 3 updates

The office net­work has recently been updated to use Fire­fox 3 as the default browser.  FF3 makes many great improve­ments in speed and inter­net secu­rity.  On the whole, you shouldn’t have to do any­thing dif­fer­ent, just enjoy the awe­some new loca­tion bar and slick inter­face.  One new fea­ture that may pose as a snag however […]

Added security for your desktop

Do you deal in sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion?  Pri­vate?  Para­noid?  Cau­tious?  Then this tip is for you!

In this tuto­r­ial i will demon­strate a quick and easy way to help pro­tect any sen­si­tive data from pry­ing eyes or passersby.

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Allow me to draw your atten­tion to the pad­lock icon […]

Critical flaw in the internet that you don’t need to worry about.

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Some­times peo­ple won­der what it is that i do here all day (and some­times night) long.  Some­times nobody cares but i feel like shar­ing any­how.  Lately i’ve been patch­ing servers and shoring up our inter and intranet secu­rity.  You see…

A while back, inter­net secu­rity researchers dis­cov­ered a prob­lem with the interwebs.  […]

How to change your password

If you ever find call to change your exist­ing login password—and you might—here’s how you can do it:

Go to your Sys­tem Pref­er­ences, either from your dock, or through the Apple menu.  Click on Accounts, see?…

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In the Accounts pref­er­ences you can now change your pass­word.  The win­dow looks dif­fer­ent depend­ing on which ver­sion of […]

[SPAM] Even MORE junk filtering!

junkmail1One added sug­ges­tion for improved spam fil­ter­ing on your inbox. Remem­ber in the pre­vi­ous tuto­r­ial where i had you go into your Mail Pref­er­ences and edit that junk mail rule? We are going to do some­thing sim­i­lar to that.

There is a spam fil­ter on the mail server which […]