I received the following message from one of my Facebook friends the other day: “Facebook isn’t using HTTPS by default any more, so your PC might get HACKED!” This message was very useful to many of my friend’s Facebook friends. Also, I’m a big fan of using HTTPS, so I’m glad that she was helping… [Read more…]
March 25, 2011
In this tutorial, I will show you how I use Dropbox, TrueCrypt and Keepass to store “sensitive” files in a remote data center (i.e. Dropbox) without losing any sleep over data security. Caveat Emptor This tutorial shows you how to make some of your Dropbox files much more secure by using encryption. While these instructions… [Read more…]
February 6, 2011
I hate to admit it, but I was one of the millions of people whose Gawker profile information was stolen from a cracked server. What this means is that someone has my profile information from Gawker, including my e-mail address and the username and password that I used to authenticate so that I could leave… [Read more…]
May 26, 2011
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