"Windows security"

Security problems? Update Windows!

Windows Update uses ActiveX Controls and active scripting to display content correctly and to determine which updates apply to your computer.

To view and download updates for your computer, your Internet Explorer security settings must meet the following requirements:

Security must be set to medium or lower
Active scripting must be set to enabled
The download and initialization of ActiveX Controls must be set to enabled
Note These are default settings for Internet Explorer.

Triple your RSA key lengths

I've been waiting to hear from one of the really heavyweight experts whether there's any meat behind Bernstein's fast factoring proposals before saying anything.

Bob Silverman just posted a first impression to sci.crypt; he can't see why it wouldn't be practical, and is now recommending 2048-bit keys instead of the 1024-bit keys he used to recommend.