Secure Your Passwords Across Multiple Sites
Recently, gossip site Gawker (along with all of its sub-sites) had their data breached by hackers. This exposed emails, usernames and passwords for a reported 1.2 million accounts.
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Blacksheep: a new Firesheep Prophylactic
Just a quick update: Last month, I posted about the threat of firesheep, and some countermeasures you can take. There’s a new tool on the block called BlackSheep. It’s pretty clever — it’s a modified version of the firesheep codebase that makes fake HTTP requests of the sort that Firesheep would normally intercept and hijack,…
Firesheep and Web Security
You may have heard some rumblings about “firesheep”, a new extension for Firefox that is making the rounds, and its implications for web security. In short, it’s a new extension that enables people to snoop on other people’s web sessions — websites like facebook, et al. There seems to be a lot of confusion around…
Where Will the Web Be in 10 Years?
In our weekly Wednesday company meeting, we typically talk with each other about what we’ve learned in the last week and the projects we’re working on. This week, however, Nick threw us a bit of a curveball. We split into two groups to answer a big question: where will the web be in 10 years?…
Bad PayPal! – When security becomes ridiculous
Want to know the perfect formula on how to create a frustrating system, provide terrible customer service, and manage to drive a loyal customer to hate? Just take lessons from PayPal – they are doing a great Job at really screwing up. Here’s the magic combo: First, PayPal created some security restrictions that ‘automatically’ triggered…
Great USB Backup App / Utility
I just found a great backup app (utility) for my USB drive. The app that comes with PortableApps isn’t very flexible and it drove me to finding something better. Luckily, I found Freebyte Backup through PortableFreeware.com. They even told me how to ‘make it more portable’ by avoiding the installation and simply running the .EXE…
Blacklists: What they are and how to avoid them
If you thought that anti-spam protection for your incoming mail would alleviate your e-mail problems forever, think again – another issue that can cause more than a few headaches are DNS BlackLists (DNSBLs), sometimes also called RBLs (Realtime Black List). DNSBLs are not a new idea, but their usage is increasing rapidly. In short, a…
When Bureaucracy Attacks
We try to stay away from politics here on the centresource blog, but this is one area where they have affected security and technology, so I’ll keep this neat and quick: One of the more amusing gifts we’ve been blessed with as a result of the PATRIOT Act is the set of “security” questions that…
Watch Your Files Today
Starting tomorrow the BlackMal virus will start deleting files from infected computers. Usually when I am in need of security related information I check Security Focus first. Here is what they have to say about BlackMal: The virus is programmed to start deleting eleven different types of files on the third of each month, starting…
SSH VPN
This is pretty cool. Check out this new feature in OpenSSH 4.3: * Add support for tunneling arbitrary network packets over a connection between an OpenSSH client and server via tun(4) virtual network interfaces. This allows the use of OpenSSH (4.3+) to create a true VPN between the client and server providing real network connectivity…