Tools for a Safer PC
Summary: Krebs on Security lays out a defense-in-depth approach to PC security built on three rules: don't install what you didn't go looking for, update what you installed, and remove what you no longer need. The piece recommends free update checkers such as Secunia's Personal Software Inspector and File Hippo's Update Checker, JavaScript blocking via NoScript or ScriptSafe, Microsoft's EMET for forcing ASLR and DEP on individual applications, and router hardening including changing default credentials and disabling WPS.
Why it matters: The article notes that WPS ships on many consumer and small-business routers and may expose them to easy compromise, and that WEP is fairly trivial to crack with open source tools - so a strong WPA2 passphrase can still be undermined by flaws built into the router itself.
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