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Tracking web users
Again, this will be something new here (at least for me): I’ll publish a pre-rant for Security Now! Steve Gibson expressed interest in the subject of cookies, so I’ll tackle that in this post and also the more general question of user-tracking. I discuss different ways it can be accomplished, ways you could protect yourself…
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Creating random passwords – the easy way
Passwords are used as the main authentication method in almost all of the current websites. They are easy to implement (from the websites owner point of view), however the user must consider several conflicting goals if s/he wants to stay safe: Passwords should be long The user must be able to remember the password It…
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What to do if you have many TIME_WAIT connections owned by the system process?
If you have a Windows machine which acts as a server and it have many connections per seconds, you can get in the situation when you have a lot of half-open connections owned by the system (PID 0) process. To resolve this if the communication hosts have high speed connections with one another (like a…