Beware the fury of a patient man.
-Fortune Cookie
Facebook Sharing Blocked? You can help!
I found out this week that sharing my website via Facebook appears to be blocked. If you are someone who enjoys sharing things via Facebook, here is more info and how you can help me share my site and project via Facebook. Continue reading “Facebook Sharing Blocked? You can help!”
Bitsquatting: DNS Hijacking without exploitation
Mind blown. (Warning, extreme techie geek content is contained in this link.)
Bitsquatting refers to the registration of a domain names one bit different than a popular domain. The name comes from typosquatting: the act of registering domain names one key press different than a popular domain. Bitsquatting frequently resolved domain names makes it possible to exploit computer hardware errors via DNS. For more details on bitsquatting my research, please see my Blackhat 2011 whitepaper. Someone has posted a youtube video of my DEFCON 19 talk about this topic. The slides from my DEFCON 19 talk are also available.
Nice and Tidy, On-Site Diagnostics
This is not a PC repair shop, this is on-site at a client location. Continue reading “Nice and Tidy, On-Site Diagnostics”
Yahoo Says 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked – The New York Times
The company says the attack was separate from the incident that led to an earlier disclosure that 500 million accounts were hacked.
Source: Yahoo Says 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked – The New York Times
Lifehacker: Most Popular Windows Downloads and Posts of 2016
Wow, my All in One – System Rescue Toolkit Lite made Lifehacker’s Most Popular Windows Downloads and Posts of 2016! Check it out!
Windows 10 celebrated its first year with the aptly-named Anniversary update this year. The free upgrade also finally ran out. Here are our biggest Windows posts from 2016.
“Microsoft Support” Scam (audio)
Website be fast!
So, I just spent the better part of the evening learning all about Apache/PHP/Wordpress/etc caching and squeezing every ounce of performance out of my server to handle massive traffic loads. My website should be nice and fast now when the horde shows up ! Continue reading “Website be fast!”
Snoop Dogg Brings Turkeys, Thanksgiving Joy to Inglewood | NBC Southern California
Rapper and actor Snoop Dogg partnered with Inglewood city officials for the third year in a row to give away turkeys to families in need.
Source: Snoop Dogg Brings Turkeys, Thanksgiving Joy to Inglewood | NBC Southern California
Automatically fix your PC? People seem to want it!
A huge THANK YOU (again) to LifeHacker Editor-in-Chief, Alan Henry, for posting about the new Lite Version my toolkit. See the new LifeHacker article here. This new one is made for non-techies to be able to fix their computer automatically. Also thank you to Front Range Internet, Inc. for being willing to setup additional monitoring on my server and tell me when it was having problems.
Continue reading “Automatically fix your PC? People seem to want it!”