Wednesday’s report is concerning because routers and NAS devices typically receive no antivirus or firewall protection and are directly connected to the Internet. While the researchers still don’t know precisely how the devices are getting infected, almost all of those targeted have known public exploits or default credentials that make compromise straightforward. Antivirus provider Symantec […]
Category Archives: security
On Choosing Secure Passwords
I couldn’t agree with this more and if you’re not using a password manager at this point, then you’re just doing the Internet wrong. I use 1password and recommend it. Yes, it’s pay but that’s good! My default password generation recipe is 23 characters of upper and lower case letters. I use letters only in […]
Boston Marathon: What if all personnel had gps enabled, personal dvrs?
In the wake of the bombings at the Boston Marathon I’ve been listening to the radio and reading about the bombings. One of the early reports described how one of the bombs was pretty close to a security guard who was scanning the crowd. If the bomber didn’t look suspicious then there’s no reason for the […]
On E-Voting
I read this article about e-voting over on Ars Technica. It’s good so go read it. My problem is that e-voting would be a huge target for APT types of hackers. What would happen if Egypt was on an e-voting system and the US/Israel wanted to effect the outcome of the election to make sure the […]
Two great articles on password security
Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger (Ars) The average Web user maintains 25 separate accounts but uses just 6.5 passwords to protect them, according to a landmark study (PDF) from 2007. As the Gawker breach demonstrated, such password reuse, combined with the frequent use of e-mail addresses as user names, means that […]
Apple and Amazon security flaws, changes I made to protect myself
Update: Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack Last night, I read in horror Mat Honan’s account of how he got hacked and how a large part of his digital existence ceased to exist. The scarest part of this “hack” was that it didn’t take advantage of any sort of software bug or security vulnerability. It wasn’t even […]