The other day I had someone who ran into a big problem that many of us hope to never come across. What happened was the user had forgotten the administrator password for their Windows Vista machine, and had no idea how they could log on.

I'm sure at some point or another you've wanted to password protect a photo that you were sending to someone else. Maybe it was a confidential image that you didn't want to end up in the wrong hands, or a personal photo that you wanted to keep secret.

While people have criticized that OpenID's have security weaknesses and may be vulnerable to phishing attacks, more and more sites are starting to use them.  Case in point... Yahoo! Yahoo just announced support for OpenID which is huge.  In case you're not familiar with it, OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on system meaning with one OpenID, you can sign into multiple sites.

One of the most popular ways for securely encoding passwords is using MD5. Many online services use it as well as some applications because it is an efficient way to securely store a user's password. For example, if your password was "admin" the MD5 hash would look like "21232f297a57a5a743894a 0e4a801fc3."

Usernames and passwords have been around for ages, and password cracking techniques have been getting more advanced. Now there are phishing scams that are designed to confuse the user with a realistic looking site, and there are keyloggers that try to record passwords typed in with the keyboard. Is Vidoop the solution to these vulnerabilities?

We weren't exactly sure whether the next milestone in the Firefox 3 pre-release lifecycle was going to be an Alpha or a Beta, but we know now.

How many times have you seen someone take a post-it note, write their password on it, and slap it to their monitor? Unfortunately this type of thing is more of a common occurrence than it should be, but the problem is that people can never remember their darn passwords!

One of the nicest features in the upcoming Opera 9.5 is that the "save this password" prompt doesn't hold back the website from loading. This gives the site an opportunity to log you in before saving would could potentially be an incorrect username or password.