Monday, May 6, 2013

Falling down the rabbit hole: An analysis of some questionable blog spam

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WARNING: This entry contains some actual malicious code. I've HTML-escaped it so that it isn't going to get executed by you viewin...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Should you really change your re-used passwords after a breach? Maybe not.

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The news is reporting that 453,000 credentials were allegedly taken from Yahoo , and current reports say that it's probably Yahoo Voice ...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Apparently consumers do care about privacy

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I often get into discussions about whether people really do care about privacy, given that they give away personal information regularly whe...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Andrew Tanenbaum on Security vs Fun-Loving Students

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... "some modicum of security was required to prevent fun-loving students from spoofing routers by sending them false routing informati...
Monday, September 26, 2011

On the Subject of Privacy and Pants...

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I was proofreading a privacy paper this afternoon and came across the funniest typo. I feel it is funnier if I illustrate it so that you to...
Friday, June 24, 2011

I admit, I laughed: LulzSec as popular as orgasms?

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Unless you've been ignoring the news for the past few weeks, you've probably seen mention of LulzSec , and if you're a security ...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

News: Experts recommend stronger protections for "Geodata"

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Interesting article: Personal 'Geo Data' as Sensitive as Private Genetic Information, Experts Argue Currently, no consensus exists...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Comprehensive Guide to Twitter Privacy: Where are you?

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Comprehensive Guide to Twitter Privacy I've become fascinated with how Twitter has such simple settings, and yet Twitter privacy is in ...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Comprehensive Guide to Twitter Privacy: Who hears what you say?

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Comprehensive Guide to Twitter Privacy I've become fascinated with how Twitter has such simple settings, and yet Twitter privacy is in ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

News: Facebook still going to share your address/phone # with external sites

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Old Facebook home page by Terriko . Over a month ago, I wrote Facebook now enabling annoying phone calls and paper junk mail? and shortl...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

To whom are you confessing?

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Many people have been abuzz over the iPhone Confession App which even received approval from the church . The Office of the Privacy Commi...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Free Wordpress themes considered harmful

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It used to be that you could tell what was likely to give your computer a virus: if you stayed away from the porn and "free screensaver...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Will Facebook's choice of social authentication (face CAPTCHAs) lead to huge gains in facial recognition software?

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Some of my friends, for your future hacking pleasure by Terriko . We've actually talked about this sort of thing considerably withi...
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"My account got hacked"

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Some bite-sized wisdom from Jeremiah Grossman : Funny how people, "my account got hacked," rather than "someone hacked int...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Zuckerberg... hacked?

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There's an amusing story up on TechCrunch suggesting that Mark Zuckerberg's fan page may have been hacked . Obviously, Zuckerberg ...