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Last summer we detailed how to crack a Wi-Fi network's WEP password using BackTrack. Now video blog Tinkernut revisits the subject with a great video step-by-step of the process. More »

Windows/Mac/Linux: BFilter, a free local-based browser proxy, blocks banner, JavaScript, Flash, and many other types of advertisements from displaying on web pages. BFilter installs itself on your system and has you set up your browser to run through it as a proxy, quickly killing ads as they stream to your system. Unlike many other ad-block tools, BFilter relies on analyzing and filtering web code, rather than a blacklist or whitelist—although you can edit the filter to ad individual sites or servers to be blocked

Hive Five Winner for Best Windows Firewall: Comodo Firewall Pro Comodo Firewall Pro took home the top honors in this weekend's Hive Five Best Windows Firewalls, followed by the default Windows Firewall and your router's built-in firewall in a close race for second and third.

Network and Wireless Router Passwords__Captures the passwords that pass through your network adapter, and displays them. SniffPass reveals passwords for POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP (basic authentication passwords).

lets you define a list of URLs you want to make sure always use https.

No software to install or complicated instructions to follow. Just enter a URL (website address) in the form above. Through Virtual-Browser, you can use websites but they cannot uniquely identify or track you. Virtual-Browser hides your real IP address an

What you can do now is use Google translator service (language tools) as a proxy to bypass the restrictions set for our connection!However, this strategy didn't work for many of you. Let us know if Virtual-Browser does the trick

8 ways to be a "web sleuth" using online tools. Track down someone's previous address using ZabaSearch, the value of a home with Zillow - Recall previous incarnations of web sites with the Internet Archive. Log onto sites without your email address with B

ZDNet's Robin Harris explains how you can wipe a hard drive clean, leaving zero traces of data.A freeware utility called Secure Erase, which taps into "a set of commands embedded into most ATA drives built since 2001." It'll scour it clean enough to satis

only: Freeware application Sandboxie provides a safe "sandbox" for you to test out new software without making any permanent changes to your system.Sandboxie is a lot like previously mentioned Altiris SVS, but since I've started using Sandboxie I've beco

The man at One Man's Blog explains how alarmingly easy it is to crack passwords and offers tips on choosing safer ones. First, he breaks down the steps he'd take in cracking a password. That includes the simple act of guessing the top ten passwords (pe

Use a proxy or RSS reader to browse personal sites: If your company restricts your must-visit web sites, there are still ways to get your daily dose of internet. For starters, you might want to try using a proxy to access restricted sites. You can read mo