Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of March 12th, 2017
Items of note in security, privacy and IoT from the week of March 12th, 2017.
Recent posts
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of March 6th, 2017
Security The biggest story in security this week is Wikileaks’ dump of CIA documents, reminding people that yes, the CIA is a spy agency and that yes, spy ag...
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of February 27th, 2017
Security If you want a phone that’s less likely to be broken into simply because it does much less, the Nokia 3310 may be for you. No App Store and no wifi ...
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of February 20th
Weekly security and privacy news review: SHA1, connected cars, SSL update, G Suite, unprotected server, drones and LEDs, Amazon Echo.
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of February 13th
I’m experimenting with compiling a list of interesting articles each week - I’ll compile a list of articles that caught my eye. I’m trying to keep this quick...
Password Dumps: How To Protect Yourself
By now you’re probably used to reading about web sites getting broken into, exposing millions of accounts. How do you protect yourself and how can developers...
How to Safely Update Your Apple Devices
The release of iOS 10 didn’t go smoothly. Here’s how to protect yourself when you update your iOS devices.
Please Don’t Get Off My Lawn: Abundance, Scarcity and Problem Solving
This isn’t a “get off my lawn you kids!” story. If anything, it’s the opposite. During my early days in the computer industry we lived in a severely resour...
Two Factor Authentication, SMS and NIST
What’s the story with NIST’s recent “ban” of SMS for two factor authentication?
Stream: A Black Box for WordPress Security
You’re searching your blog for spam for the fourth time in the last few days. Not only can’t you figure out how the spammer keeps getting in, you also can’t ...
Pokémon NO – Oh Hai All My Google Information
Pokémon Go has been all over my newsfeed today. I tried it over the weekend and found it oddly compelling - the mix of the real world, accentuated by the Pok...
Planet Earth Is Blue and There’s Nothing I Can Do
Ground Control to Major Tom Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground Control to Major Tom (Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven,...