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.

A handy tool called LockImage is here to save the day. It's a free (and open source) program that will let you create an executable file

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. This system is great for those of us who get sick of creating

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."

There is no easy way to take an MD5 hash and have it reversed back to

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?

Vidoop has developed what they believe to be

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. Mozilla just released Firefox 3 Alpha 8 as another developer preview, and judging by the current state I would say that they will be ready to start the Beta builds soon.

According to

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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!

Windows has a built-in feature that

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.

The latest Firefox 3 nightlies also have a similar feature, but I believe it is implemented a little better