ChadKing.com Archives: April 2004
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20 April 2004
Shooting Phish in a Barrel
CNET and MessageLabs are reporting that “phishing” e-mails in circulation have increased from 279 to 215,643 in just six months. “Phishing” is the practice of sending a counterfeit email designed to fool recipients into sharing personal data such as usernames and passwords, credit card numbers, and social security [...]
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19 April 2004
l0phtcrack revisited
Way back in 1999 I wrote about l0phtcrack, a hacker tool that could be used to crack Windows NT passwords.
A lot has happened in five years.
Like Kevin Mitnick, l0phtcrack morphed from a hacking tool to a computer security assistant. The software, now called LC 4, is maintained by the security firm @stake. The [...]
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14 April 2004
Business networking in the 21st Century
A few weeks ago I was invited to join a social networking site called LinkedIn.com. I was skeptical at first and was hesitant to join, but eventually I did after making sure it wasn’t some multi-level marketing scheme. After experimenting with it, I’m beginning to think that it might really [...]
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12 April 2004
New toys for road warriors
A couple of new road warrior products worth checking out:1. Migo is a small, portable flash memory device that copies settings, documents, email, folders, and Internet favorites from a source computer, and then automatically installs them (including your settings) onto another computer for temporary use. The Migo website touts that “any computer can have [...]
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5 April 2004
Oh my Word!
Over the last few years, Microsoft Word’s track changes tool has become a favorite of lawyers and judges. This popularity seems to ignore an issue that has long-plagued Word — the technological metadata “fingerprints” that linger long after the changes have been accepted.
That’s what makes sites such as Strike That Out, Sam so interesting. The [...]
