Careful: LastPass Remembers Generated Passwords Forever
I use LastPass Premium for storing hundreds of online passwords. However I don’t trust it with my most important banking passwords. For those, I use LastPass only to generate a …
Yes You Can Shred a Hard Drive
Normally when I decommission a computer, I use Darik’s Boot and Nuke to wipe the hard drive to Department of Defense standards. However, if the hard drive has crashed, you …
Secure Email Signatures in Outlook 2010
I don’t come across Secure MIME (S/MIME) signed emails very often so I thought it might be interesting to post a few screenshots of what happens when you receive a …
New USPS Shipment Virus Email
Here’s a new variation on the airline ticket virus email that I reported on last November. An email supposedly from the United States Postal Service says that I have a …
New FedEx Virus Email
Back in November, I wrote about an airline ticket virus email. Now it’s FedEx: today I received this email supposedly from FedEx with a zip file attachment: If you open …
New Airline Ticket Virus Email
Today I received an email supposedly from American Airlines with an Zip file attachment: If you open the zip file, you’ll see what looks like a Word document: However if …
Anatomy of a Hacked Web Site
Today I visited www.dmachoice.org, the web site of the Direct Marketing Association, intending to update my opt-out preferences. I was surprised when one of the pages took me off their …
Cyberheist Not the Bank’s Problem
I’ve recently become aware of a legal case where a company lost a huge amount of money due to a computer virus. Hackers used the virus to steal the company’s …
Got Backup?
Computer backup is an insurance plan for your data. Like any other insurance, it’s hard to think about when everything is going great, but you sure are glad it’s there …
Remove a Contact from an Outlook 2007 Distribution List
You may have learned the hard way that if you open a distribution list in Outlook 2007, highlight one contact, and click on Delete, the entire distribution list is deleted! …