Two Tweaks To Avoid Email Scams

The Internet and Email are the most dangerous avenues for viruses and scams. I am going to show you a couple of ways to protect yourself from these threats via email. The first one, is to hide the message reading pane; and the second one is to use the “to” column to verify the recipient …

How to Change Your CMOS Battery

What is a CMOS? You can read in more detail about that question here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS. There are two major ideas behind CMOS. One refers to the circuitry that allows digital cameras to collect the light that produces the pictures taken. I will not be talking about that one today. This topic is about how to …

OpenSSL what is it and why should you care?

OpenSSL is an encryption method used by websites to provide security against prying eyes. The problem is that someone found a flaw in the programming of a certain kind of SSL. The flaw allows crooks to peer into the working areas of the encryption process and extract important information from it, such as passwords, or …