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I am still exploring features in Firefox 3. Found an interesting new security feature called “Site Identity” to share with you. Browsing a normal Website, we might not have security concern. How about when you order goods online? Or application that need your personal or financial information? Make sure the party is trustable before send out these sensitive data.

How to know whether it is a trustable Website? Here the Site Identity feature comes in. This feature allows you to see whether the Web site has supplied information about their identity, who has verified that information, and whether they protect your information from eavesdroppers. This is just like you will make sure the person is trusted before hand over your money to him/her. Am I right?

Site Identity Levels

There are 4 types of Site Identity Levels. Each level provide different identity information. The higher level give better security. The site identity level listed from highest to lowest in sequence. (more…)

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After wait for sooo long, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been officially released!

If you have not upgrade your Windows XP to service pack 2, this is a good opportunity for you to upgrade all patches at a glance. This might be the final service pack for Windows XP, since Vista has been out for quite some time.

My friend told me he has upgraded his Windows XP to service pack 2 some time ago. It make his machine run slower when playing games. I am not sure about this SP3, but I do believe Microsoft already fix more bugs compare to SP2.

You may download the Microsoft official Windows XP SP3 executable file (~316MB). The fixes included all previous security patches in SP1 and SP2. The full list of fixes shows more than hundred hotfix. (more…)

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Today I received a letter from Paypal in my hotmail. The letter mentioned that Paypal has upgraded its system and ask me to update my information.

By looking at it, it look exactly the same format with normal Paypal email. Before I click on the link to update my information, I noticed 2 weird things.

First is on its email address. The email address from paypal@alert.com which is not originated from paypal.com. Second thing is on its link. When I point my cursor to the link, my firefox (fortunately Firefox show link url, IE not) show it is pointing to paypale.co.cc which is also not original paypal official website.

The Prove of Phishing Website

Hence, I doubt on its request.I did a whois search on Domain Tools and found the website url co.cc is a free domain register for blog! This mean it is just a free blog service provider. Someone has registered it and make it a phishing or scam website. (more…)

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I have showed you the way to protect files and folders with Folder Protector 5.0. Have you take action to protect your confidential files and folders? Well, its all depends on your needs. But I highly recommend you to protect them or at least encrypt those files that consisting your password, bank account, etc.

Now, there is a good news for open source supporter! An open source tool called TrueCrypt let you encrypt files and encrypt an entire partition or storage device. This mean we can encrypt our USB flash drive and hard disk. Others can’t even open or boot up the system if it is stolen. Further more, its software version available for Windows, Mac OS, and of course Linux. Yeah! it’s Free!

How Encryption Works ?

Basically it works almost the same with password locker. It use some advance algorithms bind with your password to hide or mess up your data. Without the password to decrypt, those data are useless. In this case, TrueCrypt is using 3 types of encryption algorithm AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish.

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