Looking for a free and reliable security package for you PC? Try out CoreSecurity Core Force. Core Force is a comprehensive security solution for Windows. It provides security features to protect against malicious programs and external attacks [...]

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 [...]

PWDumpX is a free open-source utility that provides system administrators the ability to retrieve the domain password cache, password hashes and LSA secrets from either local or remote Windows systems.
If you provide an input list of remote systems, PWDumpX will attempt to obtain the domain password cache, the password hashes and the LSA secrets from [...]

The KeyScrambler Personal Firefox extension, scrambles your keystrokes at the kernel level to protect your login credentials from keyboard sniffers.
For users, that means your keystrokes will be encrypted at the keyboard driver, deep within the operating system. When the encrypted keystrokes reach the browser, KeyScrambler will decrypt them on-the-fly and let you see the keys [...]

GFI offers a free web utility - EndPointScan - to check within minutes what devices are or have been connected to computers in your network. All you need to do is to install an ActiveX control (0.7MB) on your computer. Once installed, GFI EndPointScan will then prompt you to select which computers on your network [...]