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Archive for November, 2006

Wednesday
Nov 29,2006

“The tool is designed to quickly assess a site/page’s relative importance and visibility.” It uses information from 12 sources to provide a “score” like Google’s PageRank (from 1-10) and allowing a person to see how they score from each of those sources.

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Tuesday
Nov 28,2006

Do you have money to spend, but don
�t know what to spend it on? Today we reach out to help simplify the system build purchasing process with two Intel Core 2 Duo based systems built to fit different budgets. And both are overclocking monsters to boot!

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Tuesday
Nov 28,2006

Yesterday I wrote an article about a report that was just published about social lending. Since the article became very popular over the past day, I thought it might be interesting to take a deeper look at Zopa and Prosper to see what they offer to both the borrower and the lender.

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Sunday
Nov 26,2006

A hilarious website. It’s great to just hit the Random Page button, you find the funniest stuff!

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Sunday
Nov 26,2006

Are you one of those people who lets Firefox save your passwords so you don’t have to type them in again? That might not be such a good idea, Robert Chapin says. That’s because he’s found a new security hole in the Mozilla Firefox web browser he’s calling a Reverse Cross-Site Request (RCSR).

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Sunday
Nov 26,2006

“We tested five shareware or commercial keylogging programs: HomeKeylogger 1.70, GhostKeylogger, KG-BKeylogger, Spytector 1.2.8 and ProBot. None of them captured passwords entered using the trick we describe.”

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Sunday
Nov 26,2006

Security mentor, Chris Gates, completely rewrote his popular article on cracking Windows PWs. Starting with the basics and continuing all the way through the process of exactly how to do it, this impressive article has to be one of the definitive works on password cracking. Very well done.

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