In the OpenVMS Technical Journal – V18 April 2012 there is an article about adding Kerberos authentication to your OpenVMS systems for telnet and ssh: Kerberos authentication made easy on OpenVMS (pdf). The main advantage is that you will no longer send unencrypted passwords over the network. It also means you can authenticate …

There were rumors that Philippine hackers might join the anti-Chinese protests. The protests sparked after several political clashes between the Philippines and China over the past few months. Hackers were said to deface Chinese websites. As usual the targets would vary between government, private and academic – whatever is vulnerable …

Greetings to all ninjas!  My name is tux, a noob who wants to know more about the linux OS kernel and newbie to the infoSec area. This is my first post on ~shipcode’s blog though I had this account for quite some time already.  I hope to find more time …

Last May 07, 2012: Anonymous hackers leaked more than 55,000 hacked twitter accounts username and password through Pastebin.
To check if your account is hacked, go through this five Pastebin pages ( page 1 | page 2 | page 3 | page 4 |page 5 ) and to find your account easily just by using the find feature in your …

What divides good, common sense legislation and government from corrupt special interest machine is not just money and micromanagement of the Capitol process, but a firm handle on the public perception of what is actually happening.
The newest, institutionalized biotech voodoo & future goodness hype does not one thing for basic …

I have spent some thoughts on articles evolving around the concept of technological determinism which basically says that technologies change our behaviour. The most applied examples come from Information and Communication Technologies such as computer or mobile phones or social networking. We all know that those technologies change the language …

My father just bought a new CD-R King IP04166 Wireless-N Router for his Wimax and I was the one who setup the security settings of the wireless router like the wireless encryption, firewall management, making sure that WPS is disabled and setting up the username and password for logging in the web …

Steve Wozniak, the cofounder of Apple, made quite a stir in many technology blogs when he stated that although the iPhone may be the ideal smart phone for most users, Android just have some advantages over his alma mater’s platform. An interview at The Daily Beast went that The Woz …

The wait is almost over. Diablo 3 will launch on May 15, 2012(BTW, that’s’ my Birthday!) almost 11 years after the Diablo 2 expansion World of Destruction shift in the summer of 2001. The original Diablo is a classic, but the sequel made more of a lasting impression. Maybe you’re …

A lot of casual talks with friends or acquaintances these times include some computer topics. As the world gets more and more drawn to information and communication technologies, I guess that is a natural development – an evolution of you want. Most of the people I talk to know or …