Archive for March, 2008

CCDC – Mid-atlantic Regional

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Now I’ve had my share of competitions and especially computer science competitions. I had my first one when I was about 10 (that meaning I’ve spent half of my life doing CS competitions). And I’ve seen a lot of them…and I’ve seen pressure and people breaking under pressure. But I had no idea [...]

Site updates

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

After writing those two posts about security issues I realized how long it’s been since I updated my blog. OOPS So, I got it updated today and I also added a CAPTCHA plugin for comments, so you should know be able to comment without registering/logging in as long as you can read (and [...]

How to #2: Figure out if something is wrong

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Now, let’s assume you have a suspicion. Stuff has been acting weird, you think you might be hacked. These tools can give you a better grip of what’s going on:
AVG Anti Rootkit – what is a rootkit you ask? Well, in just a few words, once someone gets access to your computer they want to [...]

How to #1 : Keep your computer secure

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

With all different opinions and ideas flying around, the average user seems to be totally confused about what they need to do to keep their computer secured, how much it will all costs and what it really means. Even worse, users they don’t really know that they should do this or WHY. Given the extended [...]

“This is our last dance. This is ourselves. Under pressure.”