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Catch Peeping Tom in Windows XP

Are you a typical user who is working in a small peer-to-peer network with less than 10 hosts? Since, this type of network is devoid of servers, every workstation is configured to act as if it is a client and a server. Every host is forced to share its resources which make it highly […]

Top Ten administrator passwords you should avoid

Researchers at The Univerisity of Maryland recently completed a study in which four Linux servers were set out as bait to see the frequency of attacks.They found out that there were 269,262 attempts in a 24-day period (ref: http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=117302). Michel Cukier, a professor of the University of Maryland led the study on the most frequently-used […]

ABC of a secure wireless network

As wireless networks become more and more common these days, networks are becoming easier to break into. The problems stem from the fact that WLANs are very easy to set up and configure. Another reason is that most of the networks are set up with default factory setting which understandably has no restrictions. However, I […]

What to do if you forget Windows XP’s administrator account’s password?

You are back from a long vacation. You turn on your computer and when you try to log on with your administrator account; Windows XP gives you an error message saying that the password is invalid.
Yours is the only user account in the operating system so you cannot log on with any other user […]

Lock your PC !

I love working in my Office, UITS, though I don’t have to. I can work from my home using our office VPN, but its always better working in an office environment. You feel the moral obligation to work, not just plug in your iPod and surf the net. Apart from that you have James and […]