If you missed it, Gawker Media’s username/password database was hacked and paswords decrypted! This is very very bad. Lifehacker, has a comprehensive post about the compromise. They only left out one little piece of info, your password may have been exposed even if you’ve never logged in to a Gawker site. Multi-IM client Digsby is owned by… Read more »
Posts Tagged: security
Firesheep: A Valid Reason to Fear WiFi or How To Hack Your Wife’s Facebook
Just in time for Halloween, a developer by the name of Eric Butler has released Firesheep — a truly terrifying security tool. It’s so simple to use it makes script kiddies look like rocket surgeons. All you have to do is install the Firefox extension, that’s it. With the extension installed at the click of a single button you… Read more »
Security? Why Bother
I’ve been working on an internal information delivery system for an unnamed multi-national. I just logged in to their production database to set up some new features. One of which involved updating their user database. While poking around, I noticed that all but 62 of their roughly 400 users had the same password hash (meaning they… Read more »
Thoughts on Online Privacy & How to Protect Yourself [OR How Facebook Can Save Your Identity]
The following is an excerpt of an email I wrote in response to this article Facebook can ruin your life. And so can MySpace, Bebo A lot of the current batch of social networks have very poorly designed privacy controls. On facebook for instance, it’s very hard to tell which of your contacts have access to… OR How Facebook Can Save Your Identity]">Read more »
Non-Alpha-Numeric Passwords
Why won’t my bank allow me to use non-alpha-numeric characters in my online banking password?! Don’t they want my password to be as secure as possible?