by Joseph Forbes | Jan 21, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
NewScientist reports, ‘Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password no-nos: good grammar.’ Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University seem to have developed a password cracking algorithm...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 20, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS
After months of hype riding the coattails of the MegaUpload controversy, Kim Dotcom’s new cloud storage site, Mega, is finally going live. After being available to early adopters briefly, it’s now open to the public with 50GB of free storage and end-to-end...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 19, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technicals
A week ago TorrentFreak had the honor to reveal the full details of Verizon’s implementation of the upcoming “copyright alerts” system. In short, the Internet provider will notify customers whose accounts are caught sharing pirated movies and music, and after four...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 18, 2013 | Blog Entry, Web Hosting
Every so often I get asked about web design costs, I get emails from potential clients who all want to know one thing: How much for a design? Nine times out of ten, my answer causes them to run for the hills. Scary thing is, based on industry buzz, my prices could...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog Entry, SECURITY
Two of the most common forms of network address translation (NAT) are dynamic port address translation (PAT) and static NAT. PAT is the many-to-one form of NAT implemented in many small office and home networks where many internal hosts, typically using RFC 1918...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 16, 2013 | Blog Entry
In a recent article I talked about the Food For Thoughtneeded for basic computer repair problems and one of the skills I mentioned was understanding Windows Licensing. I touched on the topic a little bit in an old article about how to determine what type of license...
