Many people have asked after my recent article on passwords, about how they can crack their own passwords. There are many ways to do this and I am by no means an expert on it. One person who is an expert on security is Dana Epp – an Enterprise Security MVP who runs Scorpion Software. Dana announced at SMBNation about a new site and video series he is launching – called Crack … [Read more...]
Password Reveal Tool
One of the cool things that I saw last week at SMBNation in Las Vegas was a session by Dana Epp about Password Security. Dana as always kicks butt in his presentations and this one was no exception. One of the great tools that he talked about was a tool called Cain & Abel which did many things for us including revealing passwords already stored on a … [Read more...]
I have all my passwords on a piece of paper…
I was talking to Jessica Devita aka The Uber Geek Girl over lunch last week at SMBNation about passwords. One of the challenges that we face is teaching users about good passwords. I showed Jessica my passwords that are on a single piece of paper and she initially freaked out. When she took a look at them however, she realised that this is actually a very … [Read more...]
My 5 minutes of fame on TV last Friday
I was fortunate enough to be invited to appear on the Bloomberg TV channel last Friday under my role as Lead Technology Specialist for my company Correct Solutions. I was asked to talk briefly on security in the IT sector based on the recent hacks of some of the giants like Sony etc. This was a live interview done from their Sydney offices by a host in Hong … [Read more...]
Free Microsoft Safety Scanner Released
Microsoft this week announced the release of a free antimalware tool called the Microsoft Safety Scanner. The tool – available here is designed to be downloaded and run on a potentially infected computer and it will run a scan for all known malware, virus, or trojan programs. It will remove anything it finds. It’s a 70MB download and runs on Windows XP SP3 and … [Read more...]