WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System) that is used by millions of websites and blogs all over the world such as CNN, NY Times, OMG! Ubuntu! and of course RefuGeeks. With so much time and effort going into managing a website or blog, especially when it’s done by one main person like myself for RefuGeeks or Joey Sneddon at OMG! Ubuntu! it’s extremely important to protect your as... »
LastPass is a great tool that completely manages all of your account passwords, secure notes and even personal details like credit card information. It’s massively powerful and I would literally be lost without it. I wrote an article all about LastPass a few months ago, this should tell you everything you need to know about LastPass if you don’t know already. The awesome service that L... »
Any one who uses Ubuntu will know that during the installation of Ubuntu you have the option to encrypt your home folder. This is all well and good but it means that only your home folder is encrypted which means, should your machine fall into the wrong hands your system can still be booted up. In the Ubuntu 12.10 Beta, there is now an option to encrypt the whole of the disk before installation. I... »
I while back I wrote about how ex-gizmodo writer Mat Honan had his online persona hijacked and erased by hackers. This all could have been prevented if he had bolstered the security on his Google account before the hackers managed to get in. To do this, he needed 2-Factor Authentication. What is 2-Factor Authentication? Well, 2-Factor Authentication (2-FA) is basically a constantly changing second... »
Yesterday, Mat wrote a post on his personal blog about how he was recently hacked. The article itself makes for really interesting yet catastrophic reading (for Mat at least). Mat is an avid Apple user with an iPhone, iPad & Macbook and he uses iCloud to backup all his devices to the cloud. iCloud has a feature whereby you can remotely wipe your Apple device should it fall into the wrong han... »
Recently after a few developers found several files containing code for Multiple User account support in Android 4.1 Jellybean, zanderman112 from XDA-Developers found a way to actually put the code in action. Just like on Desktop OS's, if the tweak is enabled, the device you are using would have a login screen with many accounts to choose from, with a profile and customized settings for each use... »
Recently, around 6,500 corporate and government security technology experts and researchers from all over the world joined together to participate at the Black Hat 2012 conference in Las Vegas. In one of the many sessions that took place at the conference, Google's own Android security software; named “Bouncer†(used to remove and keep malicious applications out of the Play Store) was expose... »
Working in IT security it is imperative that passwords are made very secure and also changed regularly, let’s face it, kevquirk1234 is much easier to remember than a secure password like *kLxCTKpxJL9@. Neither of these are my passwords by the way (nor are any others in this article). The second password is similar to the type of password I like to keep though. Personally I manage my passwo... »