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Wireless Security 101

You have an office or home where you might possibly have 1,2 or more computers. You have broadband, and now you need a wireless router to synch everything together. You are sharing personal and sensitive information as files through the file sharing, and printers, fax machines...how can you secure your data? How can you know for sure that your information will be secure even when you log onto websites and enter personal information?

The answer is simple, you can't. You will never know for sure 100% that nobody is gathering or stealing your sensitive data, but there are measures that you can take to drastically prevent this type of theft from ever happening:

1. Enable WPA2!! NEVER use WEP under any circumstances. It's algorithms are extremely weak and can be hacked within minutes. WPA has has a flaw if you are using short, weak passwords. Your password should always be 72 characters long of mumbo-jumbo(ex. h*kP,3@c).

2. Shut down your SSID broadcasting. This will hide your network to those who are looking for it, it will show nothing. This can be bypassed rather easily. However, the more fences one must hop the better.

3. Enable MAC filtering. This will only allow certain computers that have a specific MAC address to connect. This is easily the weakest security of them all, because all an individual needs to do is spoof his/her MAC address. But again, enable it anyway.

4. Invest in a small, affordable and easy-to-use VPN(Virtual Private Network). This will route your traffic elsewhere and will keep prying eyes off your data with 256-bit AES encryption(the strongest available).

5. Miscellaneous - Switch to a different channel if you suspect that someone is breaking in. Also enable your Firewall, disable remote management, and I would not recommend using DMZ(which opens up all ports for a specific IP address).

6. Finally, set a password for your router/VPN/modem. Simple but frustrating to those trying to break through. Again, very easy to bypass.

Many of these options I've listed here are simple to break through. The whole point is to put up as many road blocks as possible in order to perhaps frustrate anyone trying to break into your wireless network. The best defense is to not let anyone in to begin with. So, enable WPA2 and use the longest and strongest password you can. And invest in buying a VPN. I recommend taking a look at http://www.iphantom.com. Phantom gateways has a very easy-to-use, affordable and powerful VPN that even the simplest of computer users can figure out.

The best security is to switch to WPA2 by far. Get rid of WEP, it's security is almost as equal to nothing. And if you have information that needs to be kept secret, WPA2 is the best option by far.

This is a "Wireless Security for Dummies" guide and very simple, yet it is written that even the uneducated user can apply it to protect their data.

Why you cannot enter Heaven on the basis of what you do.

It's the age old response: "If you are a good person, raise your family right, obey the laws, then you'll goto Heaven.". Well that doesn't sound right. Didn't God say something about that? Yes he did. In fact one of the most famous piece of Scripture in the Bible tells us that is simply not true.

"For by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God and NOT AS A RESULT OF WORKS, so that nobody shall boast." - Ephesians 2:8-9

What this verse here is saying is self explanatory. It is explaining that it is by the grace of God that you shall be saved through your faith and that no matter how great of works you have done, no matter how well you raised your family, no matter how generous, kind, or gracious or are, and even if you have never even gotten as little as a traffic infraction or cheated on your spouse, you will not be saved. You are saved and only saved through your faith alone. If you have faith that Jesus Christ came here through God and died for our sins, and that you repent your sins and invite him to take over your life, then you are saved.

There are some things I found while reading one of my favorite verses in the Bible(Rev. 3:20):

"You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in with him. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

-Revelation 3:17,19-20,22

The scripture above is very clear. 3:17 says that the man who says "I am rich, I need NOTHING!" God says you do not realize yet how wretched and pitiful you really are. He also says to be earnest and repent your sins in verse 19. Obviously verse 20 one of the most famous verses in the Bible for witnessing is one of my dear favorites. God stands at the door of your heart and knocks, but will you answer his knock? Or will you leave him outside of the door waiting? And verse 22 is very clear stating that he who has an ear let him hear. That means that he who has an ear and decides not to hear is at fault.

We can see a little bit about unbelievers who will not repent. But the question is, those who believe they can goto Heaven on their good works, do they believe in God? Well, yes. Most of the time. Otherwise they wouldn't even mention the word Heaven. So isn't that faith? Well, yes and no. They may believe there was this God and this God who died on a cross and there is a heaven and a hell but they do not repent their sins or invite the Lord into their lives. Thats the key point. Believing alone does not get you saved, faith without works is dead(James 2:20), but works without faith is also dead.

Now the most difficult part. What happens to these who are unsaved because of their lack of faith? Revelation tells us that as well. Read:

"He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the order of things has passed away. He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true." He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-their place will be on the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book."

-Revelation 21:4-8, 22:7

"Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you."

-Revelation 3:3

This is a very scary picture indeed. It is what personally upsets me and scares me the most. So repent your sins, have faith in God that he sent his only son Jesus Christ to die for our sins, and invite him to take over your life. Live with him. And answer the knock on the door of your heart. Because eternal life comes through faith, not by good works.

5k FireCracker Run!!

The 5k(3.20 miles) was last Saturday June 30th in Bear Valley at about 6:30 am. I've been waiting for months for the race. I've NEVER ran in any sort of race before in my life. I've started running since February and was barely able to go half a mile at that time.

So as we started I began in the back, passed a few people up. But during it I kept getting passed. Anyway, some of it had some really good incline hills and such. I placed 21st overall out of 60 people and 4th in my age group coming in at 28:31. I beat another guy behind me by exactly one whole second. I sprinted to the finish line and felt pretty good about finishing, since a few weeks ago I was barely able to go 1 mile without having to stop. So finishing it all the way through straight was a good feeling. It was 3.20 miles.

I made a newbie mistake though. Probably .05 before the finish line there was an explorer(they are like kids who have junior police officers kinda deal thing) and there were two cones out in the road and I took out my ipod earbud and asked him if that was the finish line and he was like "Yes" so I stopped. I started walking like I was finished and I looked behind me and this guy is still running so I was like well I better keep going just to make sure. So I sprinted as fast as I could after that and it appears he was wrong. The finish line was obviously ahead where everyone else was. But oh well...

My brother came in 7th overall and 3rd in our age group at 22:39. David Kaplan came in 6th overall and 2nd in our age group at 22:34.

Anyway, it was hecka fun and I can't wait until the next one!

United States of Christ

Began creating video with help from the Lord on May 10th 2007 and finished May 13th 2007.

This video is for all of our Soldiers serving in the Military in the United States.

Video link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6LPjs03TY

Phishing vs. Pharming

Getting your passwords or information stolen can be a frustrating experience for any user of technology. But you ask the question to yourself "How? When? Why?". There are many ways this can happen, and many places that this can happen on. MySpace is the first that comes to mind. Then you have Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL, GMail, Facebook, the list goes on and on. I will continue to explain two of the most clever ways this is done and hopefully answer those questions that you may be scratching your head about.

Phishing

One of the most simplest yet clever ways of stealing another user's password is when a malicious user creates a page that looks exactly identical to the login page of that particular website. Say MySpace for example, someone posts something where they believe the other user will open it, say a website. When that particular user clicks and opens the website it'll ask you to please login again. However, that page that asks you to login once again can be a malicious fake login page that is created to steal whatever you input. You might say "Sure but this look exactly like the real login page!". And this is true. Malicious users have become very clever, and this is not anything new. This is what is called "Phishing"(fishing). Phishing has been around for quite some time now, but how can you protect yourself against phishing? How will you be able to tell the difference between a fake login page and the real deal? I'll explain. Each and every single time a website comes up asking you to log in you need to ALWAYS look at the top and read what the URL shows. For example lets say you are on MySpace or AOL and you get a message from one of your friends(whose account has been broken into and is someone else trying to break into other accounts) saying something like "Hey check out this site" or "Hey watch this really funny video I found" or something along those lines and you they give you a website to check out. Naturally you are going to think nothing is wrong because this came from somebody you know. So you open it and goto the website they gave you and it asks you to re-login again, what should you do? Read the URL. If you're on MySpace it needs to say "http://login.myspace.com" and if it does not say "login.myspace.com" then you are most definitely on a fake phishing page. Because the phishers can create everything that is exactly identical to the real login page with the exception of the url name, the url will probably show where they uploaded it to, or perhaps if they actually bought a domain it will show that.

Phishers have tried to taken it a step further where they are actually registering domains that trick you into thinking it says "hotmail.com" or "login.myspace.com". By registering a domain that says perhaps "login.mypsace.com" you could be easily mistaken for the real thing because it happens to say "mypsace.com" rather than "myspace.com". Since they replace a couple of letters you take a quick glance at it and don't even notice the two letters and you think you're really on myspace.com, when in reality you are on a fake login page that will capture whatever you input into that login screen. This why you need to be extremely careful when reading what the URL says and making sure it says exactly "hotmail.com" or "login.myspace.com" or "GMail.com" because if not, and you really think you are on a real login page, your password is going to be stolen and sent back to that person where your information could be obtained and who knows what else.

Pharming

Phishing is a sneaky, clever, yet simple way of stealing someones password and many companies now are trying as hard as they can to crack down on this. But there is yet another danger that is hidden and not known about, called "Pharming". What is Pharming? Pharming is like Phishing, the real login page will look the same and will steal your information but with one exception...the URL will be authentic to the real website. Meaning you will not know the difference between this and a real login page because the URL will not be any different and chances are if the malicious user who created it is experienced the source code will not be any different either. Then how can you possibly protect your account from something like this? Well it's much more difficult to detect and Pharming isn't something that many users know much about. Think of a phishing page that is actually installed on your computer. This is much different in the sense that Phishing only occurs when you click on a link that contains the fake login page. However, you could type in "yahoo.com" or "myspace.com" and it'll bring you to a page that looks exactly to a tee like the real page, but it is in fact another fake login page where if you login you will be sending that information back to the user who created it.

So how can you even detect that you have been a victim of Pharming? Well it all depends on how it is design to re-act. You can consider Pharming a Virus, and the only reason it will not be caught by your anti-virus is because more times than none it is a homemade virus. Homemade viruses and mal-ware will not be caught by any type of security application...but I'll cover that in another article. For now we need to cover on how to detect Pharming. Now Pharming can be detected in a number of different ways. For example, say you open your browser and type in "mail.yahoo.com" which is the website for logging into your email account for Yahoo! and you see the login page load, right? Okay no problems. Except that once it is finished loading you will see it re-load again. Many users ranging from beginners all the to experienced many times unless they know what Pharming is will not even notice this nor pay any attention to it. Another way to tell if you have been infected with a Pharming page is if you goto a website and login and hit submit like you always do and suddenly after hitting "Submit" or "Login" or whatever it says you will see it load then it will return back to the login page again like nothing even happened.

We know what Pharming is, and we now know how to detect it, we know what it does, now the only question that remains is how to avoid or rid yourself of anything on your computer that is causing "Pharming". The best defense against Pharming is to not get infected to begin with. It is a good ahcnce that you might have gotten infected by downloading something you shouldn't have. These things can range from an email attachment, to third-party software, to P2P applications, all the way to torrents. The simple fact is that you never download email attachments from anyone you do not know, and if you do not know the person, don't even open up the email...simply delete it. Even if it is from somebody you may know, that person could have gotten infected with something or their account broken into and they sent this to you so they can also break into yours. Who knows how many others received an email from a frienmd or relative or co-worker thinking it is legitimate only to find out much later on(or if at all) that it was not who they thought it was and it was a ploy used only to break into your account for malicious purposes.

To rid yourself of Pharming can be a very tedious process. If you believe you have been a victim of Pharming the chances are great that you are using "Windows" and the chances are even greater that you are using an "Administrator" account. By default when you use Windows you are automatically a system "Administrator" with Administrator privileges. Simply create another account in Windows by going to Start>Control Panel>User Accounts>Create a New Account(this varies with each version of Windows). When you created a new account make sure you select it to be a "Limited" account and not an "Administrator" account. You are essentially creating a new Windows account which is "Limited" meaning the privileges are so limtied that if you get infected with Pharming or 90% of any type of malware that it will not be able to function simply because it will not be able to bring up a Pharming page because the virus can not operate correctly. Now a limited account is great for combatting viruses and such, but it is very limited on the way you can use Windows. So if you need to update anything or do anything where you need Administrator privileges simply switch back to your old account, do what you need to do and make sure you always "Log Off" of your Administrator account. And please once again, ditch Internet Explorer and always use the latest version of "Mozilla Firefox" at mozilla.com.

Unless users are educated about Phishing and Pharming then anyone who wants access to an account is probably going to get it. And about 80% of the time a user has been Phished of their password, the real owner of the account does not know that this has taken place. I hope you all are educated enough now to be able to keep your accounts and information out of the hands of identity theives, hackers, and online terrorism. If we don't in turn educate those who are victims or those who could be infected then this will just continue to be a growing issue.

Easter: God's love for us is unlike any other!

He had to be man to die, he had to be God to be sinless. When Christ died on the cross, God saw this as the payment for all of our sins. Christ was our substitute. He died in our place. The Bible tells us many things about His love for us, one notible is Isaiah 53:6 "The Lord has laid upon Christ the sin of us all".

Look at it this way:

The Vikings ruled the sea and took over many different things(things I guess as far as islands and stuff). There was then this new leader who arose up. Early on in his reign of being King someone was stealing from the treasury. The King ordered that when the theives were caught they would be given ten lashes for their crimes. Time went by and still nobody confessed or was captured. The King then ordered twenty lashes. Still nobody was caught and nobody confesses. The King finally decited fifty lashes to those who were caught in the ring of robberies from the treasury.

Well finally after all this time they had caught the one stealing from the treasury. Guess who it was? The King's mother...

So now the King had a decision to make, he is ordered to punish the guilty of their crimes. However can his love be so great for his mother to let her go?

Well the time came for him to make his decision about what to do with his mother. And it was ordered by law that he MUST punish the guilty. So the entire nation came to see what decision he would make. He ordered his mother to be tied up in front of the entire nation and her back to be exposed. Just before the first lash begins he stops them. He walks up behind his mother, pulls up the back of his shirt and takes all of the punishment for her.

His love was satisfied for his mother by being punished for her crimes and sins that she had committed. It is the same with God, his love was satisfied and demonstrated, as well as his justice when he sent His only son into this world to take the punishment of our sins for us. Imagine if you had to take fifty lashes and God walked up behind you and took them all for you.

Now, imagine you were being beat, hit, and tortured. Yes just try to imagine. You were being hit by different people with whips and obtaining lashes. However, there were nails and thorns and pieces of glass on the tips of them and they would just shred you to bits. You were then mocked and given a crown of thorns which sunk into your head. Then you had to carry this heavy heavy cross an entire mile after that sevdere beating. They then put you on it and drove huge nails in both hands and both feet. They then left you there to die.

Now you can't imagine the pain of that to be honest. But say that Jesus stood up before that happened and took the entire thing for YOU. What kind of God would love us SO much to send his son to be crucified like that?

What comes to mind is the verse from Jeremiah 31:3 where God tells us "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love" that loves continues to this day. This paints a gruesome picture, but it also paints how great the love of our Heavenly Father is. "How Great Is Our God"?

Now we all know about doubting Thomas in the late part of the twentieth chapter of the book of John, right? Well I didn't until I had studied it a couple of weeks ago. Jesus appeared to many, worked miracles with many. Some came to Thomas and told him about the Lord "We have seen him!" Thomas replied "Until I see him with my own two eyes and touch his side and put my finger into the holes in his hands and feet and smell him I will not believe". Most of this is paraphrased by the way. The Lord appears before him and says "Stop doubting and believe". Thomas then said "My Lord! My God!" John 20:28. Jesus then says "You believed because you have seen, blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." John 20:29.

Are you like Thomas? Don't be. Jesus came and took the suffering and punishment so that we can be with God in Heaven and reign with him for all eternity.

But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. John 20:31

This is my thoughts and desires for this Easter day. Let us not celebrate and think upon Jesus' death and resurrection only on this one day, but for every single day of our entire lives.

Securely deleting files and wiping your HDD

You have multiple files that you decide you want to get rid of. So, you right-click and select 'Delete' and then it's gone, right? Wrong. This is because files on your computer are accessed through a file allocation table, which tells the operating system where in your disk a file can be found. These are marked on the file allocation table by it's identifier. When you delete a file you are not really deleting it off your computer, but are instead simply removing it's entry on the file allocation table so that the computer can no longer access it. This brings us to the second step, how can we securely and safely remove this information? To understand this we can approach it from two different methods, either locking it up with an un-crackable password, or attempting to rid it. In my opinion I would say it is much safer to remove something rather than lock it up in a cubicle.

The process securely removing information happens when you can remove it and write it over with bits of random data multiple times. However, it is difficult for the average uneducated computer user to differentiate between how many is not enough. 7 passes is the national standard for the U.S. government, the NSA, and many different branches of the U.S. government. 8 passes is the national standard for Canada's government. Well since the government uses this many it must really work, right? Wrong again. 7 or 8 passes is nothing to break, the most passes that has ever been recovered by the U.S government is 14 passes. That being said, Britian's national standard for overwritting files is 38. It seems we are still behind in the times as far as some areas are concerned. Well someone then said "Enough is enough, we can fix this problem!" that someone is the infamous Peter Gutman. And so came the 'Gutman Method'. The Gutman Method just not only overwrites data with 35 passes, but it does much more than that. Of course this discussion could be an article all in it's own.

You may be thinking "Well this is nice information, but how do I utilize this technique to my own advantage?" Well to answer that question there are a number of applications you can use to securely erase files, and yes, even your entire hard drive. The best option to erase files is a nice program called "Window Washer". This application is created by the same company who created the Anti-Spyware program I've mentioned in my previous articles, SpySweeper. With Window Washer you can select between Quick method(1 pass), DoD(7 passes), NSA(14 passes), Gutman(35 passes), and Random(you select your own number of passes manually). Window Washer also gives you the option of creating a bootable disk to wipe your HDD with the same methods listed above. However, I highly highly recommend something called "Darik's Boot and Nuke" or DBAN. This is a boot disk that gives you the passes mentioned above, while giving you different methods of magnetic wiping methods.

Pretty much the idea here is that if you can pile tons of useless information onto something it becomes unreadable. And rightfully so. However, it isn't a fool-proof method of erasing anything. Sure, there is probably no way to recover something has been passed over, say, 60 times. But if you want a 0% chance of your data not being recovered is to cut it up, set it on fire, blow it up, and scatter it in 5,000 pieces in different places around the world. And even then, who knows?

I hope some of you might get something out of this article, my apologies if it seems a bit more complex. But the topic of data erasing is not a beginners subject. I also apologize for taking so long on my next article. I've been busy debating the topic of Religion on Bakersfield.com, and very much a hot debate as well. Well, I look forward to many topics to come, I am not sure what will be the next article but I hope many of you are as excited about technology and information as I am.

Good vs. Bad - Security Software PT. 2 --Continued

Last article we learned of good choices between firewalls, anti-virus, and anti-spyware applications. We also learned that FireFox should be the choice for a web browser no matter what you do online or how experienced you are. Now we are going to cover settings you should apply to those applications, and we'll pickup a few bad software choices aswell.

ALL of your security software should be configured to automatically search and download for updates, and many already are. Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D will search for updates atuoamatically. Ad-Aware will search within a longer period, I would recommend setting it to 7 days to wait until searching for updates. Ad-Aware does not run in the background, which means you will need to launch it in order for it to apply the needed definitions.

ALL of your security software(besides your firewall) needs to be set to scan automatically. The reason for this is mainly for convenience, if you run your computer all day and go off and on at your pleasure, then setting the software to automatically scan at a given time of the day is essential. It will scan, and quarantine anything malicious it picks up and be finished by the time you return to your PC. Make sure to schedule it for a time when you might think the computer may not be in use(eg. early in the morning or during the afternoon).What does it mean to "quarantine" something?Ad-Aware, SpyBot S&D, SpySweeper, AVG and all security software(besides firewalls obviously) have what is called a "quarantine archive". When a file or object is placed into the "quarantine archive" it can no longer be used and it cannot function AT ALL. In this case, a malicious file of some sort. Say a scanner tracks the origin of spyware to a file, it will take it and quarantine it, and it then will no longer be able to operate anymore. If it gets removed from quarantine, then there is a chance of it still spying on your activity.

Norton Anti-Virus: BAD! Avoid at all possible costs. Sure, Norton Anti-Virus is very good at catching viruses, and spyware, and stopping popup ads, and blocking ad-ware, but come to think of how that is bogging down your system. Norton anti-virus will run your system down and eat up your processes. Many who advertise an anti-virus, anti-spyware/adware, popup blocker, and built in firewall should all be avoided.

Why? #1 There is no need to block popup ads because our safe browser that we have been discussing, Mozilla Firefox, does not allow popup ads. AT ALL. Most popup ads are from a website to website basis. Many users get popups unexpectedly, that is what is called adware. Companies are trying to advertise to you their products, after tracking what you surf for. Then they can even spam your email according to what you may have searched for, shopped for, or bought online. AVG is just as good as norton but no as intrusive, constantly bothering you like norton does and running your system down to less than that of a snail. Ad-Aware, Spybot, as well as Windows Defender will be adequate enough to stop about 99% of all spyware you will come across. SpySweeper still sits high above the rest when it comes to catching most of what you will be infected with. Ofcourse, the best defense to stopping spyware and viruses is to not get infected to begin with.

Next article we will cover actual "Privacy" software and discuss what type of habits we should change inorder to stop getting infected with malware. We are also going to bring up the two topics which include: Protecting your privacy and being able to safely and permanently deleting files...military grade style.

Good vs. Bad - Security Software PT. 1

We use computers for our personal needs, sometimes for entertainment and others may use it for business reasons. But there comes a point and time where you will have to have security and privacy. If you are connected to the internet, and you do not have a firewall enabled, you can become infected with the Blaster worm within 60 seconds. That's how dangerously worms are floating around the internet. And for this reason you need to have security software. I recommend the following: A firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, and a safe web browser. For a firewall I highly recommend "Zone Alarm" this free firewall is by far the absolute best you will find, others may argue comodo, kerio, or agnitum are better. In my opinion Zone Alarm is better in many ways, it's automatically configured to stealthly hide your ports from the internet, and is better configured. If you're not so serious then the built in firewall "Windows Firewall" is a good alternative. As far as Anti-Virus is concerned, I recommend "AVG" from Grisoft. It is a free non intrusive anti-virus that is just as good as norton or anything else you will purchase but will not "bogg" down your system. With anti-spyware there are a number of great choices. #1 I would recommend "Windows Defender" above all, but the others are "Ad-Aware" and "SpyBot". If you're willing to spend money then "Spy Sweeper" from Webroot is extremely well built and is the absolute best of the best as far as it catching a very high percentage of spyware. Besides using a firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware, you will need to have a safe web browser. I highly suggest you to use Mozilla FireFox. It's popularity is skyrocketting and is the safest web browser(and easiest) to use. Web browsers I do not recommend are Internet Explorer, AOL's browser, or anything else that allows ActiveX scripting. If you use a web browser that allows ActiveX then somebody can put a malicious script on a website, have you visit that site(perhaps accidentally by even a popup or social engineering), and it will download the scripting onto your computer "without" your knowledge. From there, they can track what websites you go on, display popup ads, or even capture your passwords. This is what is called "Spyware". And it is how most users get infected besides downloading malicious content. Next article I will cover different ways to protect yourself, how you can safely configure your applications, and bad security software that will do more harm than good.