How to connect to public wireless, securely?

When you connected to unsecured public wireless, you may transmit sensitive information such as your e-mail user name and password or other important information to non protected websites addressed (non-https sites). Someone (cracker) who also connected with the same access point to this unsecured public wireless, may gain access to this information. A VPN (virtual private network) connection can protect your internet connection from this issue. I use Little TunnelBear VPN  service to secure my internet connection, when connect to unsecured public wireless. Since this is a free VPN service, the data transfer amount limited up to 500MB per month. For me it is enough. I found this free VPN service is the most easy one to use and no pop-up or advertising. If you satisfy with this free VPN service and need more data capacity, then you can subscribe to a pay service.

For more information visit, http://www.tunnelbear.com/help/

A freemium password storage for your internet sites

Password:
Visit https://lastpass.com/, download, register and install it and lastpass will ease your internet browsing experience by remembering your site's user names and passwords.

Requirement: An e-mail address.


Do:
On a public computer, it is recommended that you generate a one-time password and login to lastpass using one time password. See the picture above.

Don't:
Don't login using your master password on a public computer, to prevent people from stealing your lastpass's master password and getting all your internet's user names and passwords

Competitor:
Any better free password software than this? My personal two cents, I cannot find one, as of March 1, 2012.

But, I do hope Dashlane will catch-up!

Cost: Freemium or $1/month

Year 2010 collections

As year 2010 will soon ended, it is now the right time to share with you few of my favorite collection links from internet, such as:
-IT Security Tools to check a health of a website
-Online Indonesia news paper
-Online useful applications
-IT security news
-Webcam in Jakarta city

Syngress' CISSP Study Guide and exam practice

Take the test online:
Practice Exam A
Practice Exam B

Mind mapping - online version

CISSP Exam Prep

Intresting information on Stuxnet

Explain of Stuxnet to average computer user... It would have checked if a specific word processor is installed on your machine, let's say Microsoft Word. It would then check if you have a specific printer model installed. Now comes the freaky part. Stuxnet would then check for the presence of one specific document on your hard disk. Not based on the document's file name, but based on the document's content. If no match is found, Stuxnet leaves you alone. If Stuxnet finds the document it is looking for and you print out the document, Stuxnet prints its own stuff rather than the original document content. What Stuxnet prints is not random garbage, but completely well-formed sentences in English language.

For real explaination of Stuxnet

Introduction Security+ by Clement Dupuis

I'm listening a very good start-up to learn Computer Security. It's a 453 minutes of online class with nice and attractive presentation slides!
You are required to register and be aware usage agreement.
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Presentation: Intro and Domain 1 System Security
Presenter: Clement Dupuis - Security Evangelist
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