Accidentally deleted an important word document? Office crashed and your presentation was damaged? If you got Vista, you can restore any file within minutes thanks to Vista previous versions feature.
Vista automatically creates previous versions of your files without you having to create a backup of them manually. Previous versions are basically backup copies of files [...]

While the adoption of web applications for conducting online business has enabled companies to connect seamlessly with their customers, it has also exposed a number of security concerns stemming from improper coding. Vulnerabilities in web applications allow hackers to gain direct and public access to sensitive information (e.g. personal data, login credentials).
Web applications allow visitors [...]

Suppose you’re at an open wireless hotspot and wish to connect the Samba server from your Windows laptop, but you don’t want to send data (documents, authentication hashes etc.) over the air in plain text.
Using SSH tunnels, you can encrypt all your network traffic and redirect it through a trusted computer when you’re connected to [...]

When you tell Firefox to remember your user-name and password to a login service, it encrypts the access credentials and stores them in a database file in your profile directory. Yet, anyone can open Firefox’s password manager and view your secure login credentials.
In order to keep prying eyes out of your login information, one can [...]

Hidden shares are special shares identified by the dollar sign ($) at the end of the share name. By default, Windows automatically creates administrative shares for each logical disk on your system in addition to another share called ADMIN$ for the Windows root directory.
Although these shares are designed for remote management and accessible only to [...]

If you ask a typical gamer what she thinks about her PC firewall, you’d get one answer: firewalls suck. Having constantly to open ports and change configuration makes firewalls really annoying for gamers. It gets especially nasty when you have a sizable collection of games that usually require different port ranges to be opened.
However, since [...]

Virtual memory is a truly great mechanism. It protects programs from one another and lets them utilize more memory than actually available. In a nutshell, you can think of virtual memory as an alternate set of memory addresses.
As you run more and more programs, at some point, you’ll begin running out of physical memory. Since [...]

Nowadays many web sites require you to type a user name and password before you can enter the site. One of Mozilla Firefox’s powerful features is the ability to save your passwords so you don’t need to type them in every time.
But how well Firefox protects your passwords? Apparently, by default, Firefox lets anyone view [...]

KeepPassSD is a Windows Mobile port of the popular open source password manager KeepPass. Just like the desktop software, KeepPassSD securely saves passwords to various login services on your Windows-based mobile device.
For first time users, here’s how it works. KeepPassSD stores all your user-names and passwords for various login services in a single master [...]

Auditing source code is rapidly becoming a standard practice employed by security teams to assure that software applications meet their security requirements. The goal of this procedure is to achieve a secure and reliable software and fix potential security holes before the software is deployed.
Orizon is a framework that provides a set of API to [...]