Actiontec is a company that specializes in providing consumers with wireless products such as modems, routers, and network storage devices. Actiontec produces both cable and DSL routers as well as VDSL routers and fiber optic modems. Actiontec also produces routers compatible with the Verizon FiOS plan, which bundles multiple services together, including landline telephone access, Internet, and television. It consists of many advanced features such as accessing the web from the user’s television as well as viewing incoming telephone calls on the television screen. Actiontec Default Password Like other routers, Read More

There are many registry booster/cleaning programs on the market today. Unfortunately, many of these programs either fail to meet user expectations or are superseded by similar downloadable programs. Uniblue Registry Booster is a third party software application that deletes errors and orphaned entries from the Windows registry on your computer. The application is designed to boost computer performance as well as speed up the computer shut-down and start-up processes. A user may decide to remove Uniblue Registry Booster in order to install a newer software package or just to eliminate Read More

Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to a system of access control techniques that digital systems manufacturers implemented. DRM allows companies to protect their assets from being copied or otherwise unlawfully distributed by either analog or digital means, with more emphasis on the latter. DRM can be used in any digital system and can function in a variety of ways to restrict users from simply copying a digital file or accessing a digital system altogether. How Digital Rights Management Works There are many different types of DRM, but most fall under Read More

Belkin is a leading manufacturer of networking devices such as modems, wireless routers, and network storage devices. Belkin also produces a number of other wireless access devices and USB based modem cards and markets a number of data plans for some of the largest Internet Service Providers. Belkin Router Default Password As with any other router, all Belkin routers include a built-in control panel that allows users to change the router’s configuration settings, enable the router to work with other devices, and setup network security. To access this control panel, Read More

A one-time pad is the only theoretically unbreakable cipher. A one-time pad is a private key, or symmetric, cipher where the key size is equal to the plaintext size. Because of this, the key is never reutilized. As the key is never reutilized, there is no basis for mathematical cryptanalysis. An example of a very poor one-time pad would be if you were to encrypt a letter to a friend using a substitution cipher and using Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms as a key. Your friend could decrypt your letter Read More

Iris recognition refers to the technology that identifies an individual through the photographing and verification of his/her eye. Iris recognition is a biometric technology and is also referred to as biometric security. Iris authentication is becoming increasingly popular as a security measure in industry, government, and military organizations due to its high degree of accuracy, safety, and simplicity (in terms of using it). How does Iris Recognition Work? Iris recognition combines pattern recognition, options, and computer vision technologies to authenticate an individual’s identity. First, the system takes a zoomed-in picture Read More