December 14, 2010
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Happy holidays! Your Web server just died! I use the word ‘try’ very deliberately in my title. The truth of the matter is that there isn’t a damn thing you can do that will stop a serious distributed denial of … Continue reading
December 10, 2010
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When I first heard about a prominent journalist’s review smartphone, with all its information intact, dropping into the lap of a friend, I thought it was funnier than anything else. I have a dark sense of humor. But, then I … Continue reading
December 9, 2010
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I can’t tell you who’s attacked first WikiLeaks and more recently MasterCard, PayPal, and Visa with Distributed Denial of service (DDoS) assaults , but I can tell you it wasn’t hard. It wasn’t even, as such things go, that bad. … Continue reading
December 2, 2010
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As I continue to watch the WikiLeaks saga, I can’ t help thinking, no matter what you think of WikiLeaks, it never would have become gotten so big if it wasn’t for some dumb security mistakes. It’s not, as Jason … Continue reading
December 2, 2010
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When I heard that Xmarks, the popular cross-browser plug-in that synchronizes bookmarks and passwords across multiple computers, was going out of business, I was really upset. For me, and many others, Xmarks is an invaluable resource. Well, we don’t have … Continue reading
November 26, 2010
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Firesheep, the all too easy-to-use Web snooping tool, continues to expose the disaster that is modern Web site security. Sooner or later, a lot of people are going to lose a lot of valuable information to hackers using Firesheep and … Continue reading