Facebook is huge with soon 500 million users worldwide. And bad people try to abuse that large user base with different techniques and methods. One that I came across today is a scam email which wants to you view some photos. If you click the link, Facebook asks you for your password and to verify […]
Continue ReadingSofTax 2009 PDF Speichern/Kopieren
Es ist wieder einmal die Jahreszeit, wo tausende von Schweizer und Schweizerinnen ihre Steuererklärung ausfüllen und abgeben müssen. Wer die Graubünder Software “SofTax” verwendet, hat natürlich den digitalen Vorteil gegenüber der Papierversion. Jedoch lässt sich das generierte PDF nicht kopieren oder speichern. Eigentlich. Dank eines einfachen Tricks für Mac OS X lässt es sich doch […]
Continue ReadingPerfect Online Backup Strategy
For over 15 months I am using BackBlaze as an online backup system. Once installed and configured, it automatically backs up all my data in the background. No matter how many files or how large your backup is, everything is safe. BackBlaze currently backs up 38 GB of data in 634’244 files for me. Now […]
Continue ReadingSpam of the Day: WifiNt Domain Spam
Today in Spam: Hannah from Wifint.cn who write to tell me that Robert Jiang wants to register .cn/.com.cn/.hk/.asia and other domain names which are similar to a .com I own. Dear Sir/Madam We are a internet service (software development, website design and development, wifi network works to promote the protection of brands, search engine optimization, […]
Continue ReadingAnti-WordPress-Hacking Suggestions
After the recent discussion about the hacks that are used to break into blogs with the WordPress software, I came up with a few ideas on how to make WordPress more secure. More security for adding administrators First of all I really would like to have a method in WordPress that sends an administrator an […]
Continue ReadingBreaking the Network: SSH Server as Proxy for Secure Browsing
Our university LAN is pretty restricted. You can only access the most basic ports like http (80), ftp (21), ssh (22), pop3, imap and so on. But what if you need another port like a port to manage a webserver? After some tuning and searching we came up with the almost perfect solution. And it […]
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