DoH and DoT for Vivaldi and other browsers
Recently Mozilla decided their testing of DoH with Cloudflare is now ready for regular users and it can be enabled for those that want it. Are you feeling jealous of your Firefox friends and DNS … Read more
Posts Tagged ‘security’
Droid Tools
Tools for Android This page contains a mix of geeky tools and security scanners that I find useful or essential. There are a few alternative App stores, Linux distros and emulators for a few alternative … Read more
Best free Anti-virus
The best free Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware programs …but don’t just take my word for it Which Security Suite for Windows Provides Sustained Protection? Currently the best Free AV are; Avira https://www.avira.com/en/download/product/avira-free-antivirus Bitdefender https://www.bitdefender.co.uk/solutions/free.html Kaspersky https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/free-antivirus Avast https://www.avast.com (Avast can break website … Read more
OpenSSL and manual updating of software
26th September 2016 – Current versions: 0.9.8zh – 1.0.2j – 1.1.0b https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160926.txt https://www.openssl.org/news/newslog.html OpenSSL just got another major update, and now the pre-compiled binaries for Windows are available fromhttps://www.openssl.org/community/binaries.html Many common programs use the standard DLLs … Read more
Malware removal and precautions
Welcome to Dr.Flay’s™ Cybernetics Apothecary™Please take a seat. I am going to assume you can still log in. If you cannot, then use one of the “Live Discs” on my “Online Anti Malware” pageFirst … Read more
Using XP beyond the deadline
DON’T PANIC After the last day of official updates you will be able to continue using Windows XP securely, but you will have to change the way you use it. You can continue receiving updates … Read more
Security Now
April 8, 2014 #450: How the Heartbleeds http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/twit.cachefly.net/audio/sn/sn0450/sn0450.mp3 http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0450/sn0450_h264b_640x368_256.mp4 The end of updates for Windows XP, AnyDVD, the Heart Bleed Bug, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at http://twit.tv/sn Snowden’s SXSW appearance
Web-Mail and Email
Accessing your Email via a web page is a convenience not the recommended way to do it. Using a web browser is usually less secure. Webmail settings/configuration For use in a normal/standard email program/client/phone app. … Read more
Security
Security related sites, and tools. Check for vulnerabilities https://www.browserleaks.com https://browsercheck.qualys.comhttp://www.haveibeenpwned.comhttp://www.java.com/en/download/uninstallapplet.jsphttp://secunia.com/community/advisories/search/http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/http://www.whynopadlock.comhttp://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.htmlhttps://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ Security for communicationshttps://proxpn.com/freemium.phphttps://airvpn.orghttp://www.gnupg.orghttp://www.gpg4win.orghttps://www.startssl.com/?app=1https://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/free-email-certificate.phphttps://calomel.org/ssl_certs.html (Guide to Webserver SSL Certificates)https://letsencrypt.orghttps://www.sslshopper.com/article-free-ssl-certificates-from-a-free-certificate-authority.htmlhttps://konklone.com/post/switch-to-https-now-for-free DNSSEC – Secure DNS Lookupshttps://wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Extensionshttps://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htmhttps://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/dns-checkhttp://www.howtogeek.com/161808/htg-explains-what-is-dns-cache-poisoning/ http://www.opennicproject.org/configure-your-dns/ 156.154.70.22 UltraDNS156.154.71.22 UltraDNS 8.8.8.8 Google8.8.4.4 Google 193.67.79.39 UUNET193.78.240.12 … Read more
Online Anti-Malware
Check your current system for insecure software.Secunia Online Software Inspector (OSI)https://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/ BROWSER ADD-ONS WOT – Web Of Trust VirusTotal – – Opera – – – – – Other browsers Dr.Web EFF HTTPS Everywherehttps://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Calomel SSL … Read more
