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Avoid Being Fooled Into Having Your Identity Stolen

Submitted by Gil on Mon, 07/10/2006 - 5:49pm

I have received about 3 emails in the past two months claiming to originate from eBay - they normally asked me to logon to my account via a link that they provided on the email. That link led me to a site that looked just like eBay but wasn't - the address bar said login.ebay.com and everything, but it turned out that the adress on the address bar was cloaking the real address which happened to be some random ip address that hosted the fake eBay website. I was almost fooled the first time into logging in, but caught it before I input my information.

Securing Your Wireless Network Part 1

Submitted by Gil on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 11:37am

In this step by step guide I will show you how to increase your wireless networks security. This guide was created using a Linksys WAP54G Wireless Access Point. I will cover other routers and access points as soon as I get my hands on them. For the time being you will learn the following: