Late last year some 32million accounts were hacked at RockYou. What was the most common factor for these accounts? Weak passwords. Passwords are your lifeline for your Internet accounts and you shouldn’t be using guessable words and numbers as your passwords. I’m not saying you should use a giant 32 character password, but adding a [...]
Setting up a firewall in Linux is actually surprisingly easy. With Ubuntu you may want to make sure the iptables package is installed. If you run Slackware, the best Distro on Earth, you’ve already got it. Iptables is the heart of most firewall scripts in Linux.
I’m going to assume that you are [...]
The ssh library was designed to be used by programmers needing a working SSH implementation by the mean of a library. The complete control of the client is made by the programmer. With libssh, you can remotely execute programs, transfer files, use a secure and transparent tunnel for your remote programs. With its Secure FTP [...]
Serena Williams’ latest outburst incident at the U.S. Open has lead to hackers creating websites with the terms “Serena Williams Outburst” and the infection of who knows how many computers. The main site in question, pixnat.com, hosts a variety of viruses and Malware, specifically fake anti-virus pop ups. Another perfect example of how hackers are [...]
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this early, maybe the bad round of gold today freed my mind! Get rid of FTP forever on your Linux machines! We recently got a bad Linux worm from an FTP vulnerability. FTP security has been a big problem for us lately and I think I found [...]
Many of us have accounts all over the Internet; Ebay, Gmail, Yahoo, World of Warcraft, EVE Online and the list goes on. You can take just a few steps in making sure your online accounts don’t get hacked. With your personal information so readily available, hackers can easily hack almost any of your online accounts. [...]
Adding a simple ListBox widget in your GTK application is easier than you think. This tutorial will show you how to create ListBox-like functionality in GTK using Glade3. GTK uses the TreeView control as their do-all list control. You can create simple lists, tree-like lists and all sorts of various list views. What is really [...]
Read More »Today I whipped up a simple GTK application using the Anjuta IDE, Glade 3, and the new GtkBuilder system. As some of you know, Glade 3 and GTK changed things up. First Glade stopped using generated code which required you to use libglade. Now the GTK developers created their own interface interpretor called GtkBuilder. [...]
Read More »This code will show you how to search for Windows Services. The ServiceController class handles almost everything service related. You can also check if services are running by checking the service.Status property and you can search for installed services using the sample code below. The services we are talking about are the services that run [...]
Read More »Visual Basic for Linux is here, sort of. In my search for the perfect RAD environment for Linux I came across a project called Gambas. Gambas is a Visual Basic like development environment for Linux which is very much like Microsoft’s drag and drop Visual Basic but it is not a clone. For an Open [...]
Read More »This code snippet will let you force a background color into a PNG file with C#. When working with PNG files in Visual Studio sometimes you’ll run into situations where the background of a PNG shows up as grey or even blue. This is because of the PNG files transparency and Windows can sometimes [...]
Read More »The following code shows you how to build a UDP server in C# using the UUdpClient class for the networking and BackgroundWorker class for reporting data back to the application. This particular UDP server class is designed to be used with a Windows Forms or GUI. When using the UDP server you pass a BackgroundWorker [...]
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