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SSH is really not that secure by default on must Linux distributions in the default configuration. By default OpenSSH is configured to allow password based authentication (because its easier); however, script kiddies have developed scripts that can try thousands of passwords an hour. If you have a strong secure password this will usually not be (…)

The hosts file is a text file that specifies names of IP addresses. You may recognize this name by the term, URL. Your computer’s operating system by default will always look up the name (url) of a site through your computer first. If your computer doesn’t know the name it then forwards the request to (…)

Passwords are needed for just about everything now. How do can you remember them all? Some sites force you to have 8 character password some 6 some even force you to have numbers in it. So how do you come up with a password that is strong yet easy to remember possibly even a different (…)

Most households have some sort of broadband that is hooked up to a wireless router of some sort. These wireless routers are by default insecure. It is argued that wireless in any form is incredibly insecure due to the fact that you can’t physically contain it