#security

57 bookmarks

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/09/16/just-ho...

This is a) proper interesting and b) proper scary. I encourage the reading of it. And then the pur...

alasdairw Sep 18, 2014

http://lifehacker.com/five-computer-security-myths...

A collection of myths about security (as in, how people justify not being secure enough to themselve...

alasdairw Jul 10, 2014

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Handy website for checking if any of your commonly used usernames/email addresses have been leaked w...

alasdairw Jan 20, 2014

http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/us...

In the terribly unlikely even that anyone reading this isn't worried about PRISM, metadata gathering...

alasdairw Jun 14, 2013

http://support.agilebits.com/discussions/1password...

I still have a few places where I use a password I *know* to be bad. (It's only 8 characters long,...

alasdairw Feb 26, 2013

http://leakedin.org/

Here's a good tool that will let you check if your password was among those exposed by linked.in ear...

alasdairw Jun 08, 2012

http://kottke.org/12/06/the-worlds-worst-password-...

Some of these are mind-blowing. Security is a compromise between usability and safety, whch is why...

alasdairw Jun 06, 2012

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/secret-so...

Got an Android phone? Or a Nokia, or a Blackberry? Then you may find that third parties are watchi...

alasdairw Dec 01, 2011

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/11/...

This is, frankly, idiotic. Yes, he violated Apple's TOS, but there is no evidence that he did it wi...

alasdairw Nov 08, 2011

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2011/08/11/take...

If you're using wordpress, you should probably do these things. None of them are hard, and all of t...

alasdairw Sep 01, 2011

http://www.scmagazineus.com/new-android-spyware-an...

Anyone want to bet me that there was a governmental intelligence agency involved in the development...

alasdairw Aug 24, 2011

http://wordpress.org/news/2011/06/passwords-reset/

The Wordpress main repository got hack the other day, and several popular plugins were modified to c...

alasdairw Jun 22, 2011

http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrc...

For very real and serious: if you have *ever* left a comment on a Gawker blog (or if you're not sure...

alasdairw Dec 13, 2010