Free WiFi Why I’m Against It.

I have to say in some cases I would agree with the use of it and some I would agree now over the news in England we have seen Norwich go WiFi all over I feel sorry for their bandwidth, I think their speed is something like 256kb/s which Isn’t that bad considering how many people will be using it.

But why don’t I like it, basically I can’t stop thinking about war driving (hackers) how dangerous can this be if people are checking their bank account on this WiFi, I for one never check bank details online even if its on a wired stand alone computer it opens up so many possibilities, we already have enough trouble as it is with fraud now we will be getting even more with WiFi.

Removing password from windows.

Well very recently I’ve lost my password a couple of times so i needed some way of getting on my windows partition, so i can use my programs!

So i went hunting the forums until i came across a brilliant boot CD, no it isn’t Ultimate Boot CD its Hiren’s boot CD when you download it, its very simple so follow what you need it for!

But this brought me up to thinking about how easily people can physically bypass your windows passwords, i thought putting a password on my BIOS set up and make it boot the hard drive first but all BIOS’ are made with a master password built in unless you get a BIOS that has never been heard of before your pretty much stuck from physical attacks.

Please if you know a way to stop physical attacks please tell me in the comments section i will be very interested in it!

USB Flash Drives Security Issues, And How To Secure Your PC.

I’m a large fan of USB flash drives I always have one on me with everything on it.

But recently my attention has been drawn to the security problems they face, after watching some podcasts I see that people can steal everything that is on your drive or they can use a flash drive to steal passwords etc.

I’ve tried this out on my friend’s pc for a laugh for all of his passwords from msn login passwords to the computer access password.

When looking at the other one that will steal your data on your actual flash drive, which I can see happening a lot I have not yet, tried it out I’m waiting for a new USB flash drive to try it out.

So how can you protect yourself, well for the hack that steals your data from your USB drive you will need to hold down shift when plugging in your USB drive, because it will steal your data when if auto run’s so upon holding shift it will not do this.