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Breaking into Gov. Sarah Palin's Webmail account was a simple hack--one that required little to no technical expertise. There is, of course, an important lesson to be learned here for the vice presidential candidate, and hopefully the rest of us can take something away from this as well.

The attack was perpetrated by 4Chan's "random" /b/ board. The board has long been at the forefront of Internet memeology, helping popularize such favorites as lolcats, Rick-rolling, and the "Anonymous" group, which has been known to launch its share of large-scale anti-Scientology protests.

On Tuesday night, someone from the /b/ board ("/b/tards," as they are colloquially known) broke into Sarah Palin's Yahoo! e-mail account. They read the e-mails and posted the address and password on

Encryption is one of the fundamental elements of system security, so it's no surprise that Vista includes encryption as part of the operating system (although not in the Home editions). In fact, the Encrypting File System (EFS) has been around since way back in Windows 2000, as a feature built right into the NT file system (NTFS), on which Vista, XP, and Win2K have been based. In the Enterprise and Ultimate editions, Vista provides an additional security system, BitLocker, which combined with EFS provides a rich encryption package (although BitLocker is designed especially with laptop users in mind). But here we'll just stick with EFS.

The point behind including EFS in Windows is to build strong data encryption into the operating system itself, thereby getting rid of b

The fall model year for security suites is thoroughly under way at this point, and some clear trends are emerging. Users have had it with suites that slow down the system and get in the way. They're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore! Security software makers have heard the grumbling, and they claim their 2009 security suites do more for security while using less of the system's resources. And most have redesigned the suite's user interface to make it more attractive and easier on the user. Pretty faces are nice, but the real question is, can your security suite keep your system safe without bogging it down?

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