Category Archives: Security

Plaintext Offender : BidVertiser

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Spechal

If you have an account with BidVertiser, your password is stored in plain text and emailed back to you when you request it. This also means customer service can look up your account and get your password. I informed them … Continue reading →

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Low Level Format Disk Drive with Linux

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Spechal

Doing a log level format with linux is super easy. Make sure the drive you want to format is not mounted and determine the device in /dev/ i.e. /dev/sdb Enter the following command to turn all the bits on the … Continue reading →

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Use HackIt and Revolution ROM to sexify your HTC Inspire

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Spechal

Got an HTC Inspire 4G? Tired of all the bloatware and running apps. Tired of have to kill those apps over and over? Root your phone (root is the superuser account in Linux, which Android runs on)! This voids all … Continue reading →

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Linux: Cleaning up your login tracks

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Spechal

So you’ve logged into a Linux machine but you don’t want anyone to know you were there. Why? Who cares. Here are a couple of things to clean up your tracks. Once you log in, you’ll notice that message that … Continue reading →

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