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Tag Archives: Security
On Passwords and SolarWinds
By now everyone knows about the major breach of the U.S. Government (and probably others) that had its genesis in an exploit that gave attackers access to the SolarWinds build chain. Some are reporting that the problem was a leaked … Continue reading
Burner Emails
FourZeroThree has a nice four and a half minute video on how and why you should have a burner email account. The idea has been around for a long time under the name of disposable email addresses. The idea is … Continue reading
Setting Up and Using Authinfo With Emacs
Once you start moving more and more of your computing tasks into Emacs, you’re going to need a way of handling passwords. Mail is the canonical example but there are also things like blogging sites, ftp servers and other functions … Continue reading
Read Meat Friday: A Trojan In Your Editor
Is there a backdoor in your editor? Probably not, even if you’re using IntelliJ, but in a moment of schadenfreude for FOSS folks, the New York Times is reporting that JetBrains software may have been used as vector in the … Continue reading
Building A Password Generator in 3 Minutes
Today—the whole week really—has been consumed by yak shaving so this is a short offering. Salah Qadri has a nice 3 minute video (3 minutes, 48 secs actually) in which he builds a reasonably good password generator. The generator builds … Continue reading
The Worst Passwords of 2020
We haven’t done this for a while but it’s time, once more, for a survey of the year’s worst passwords. Sadly, the only real question is, as usual, whether 123456 or password heads the list. This time password has inexplicably … Continue reading
The NSA Stonewalls Congress
I don’t get this. Reuters is reporting that the NSA is refusing to tell congress about its seeking of back doors. It’s certainly true that an argument can be made that the NSA should be seeking back doors but how … Continue reading
Online Voting and Banking
There are, I’m sure, no Irreal readers who don’t understand that online voting is a really hard problem and that, currently, there are no good solutions. Those without a technical background don’t understand this and ask questions like, “If we … Continue reading
Ransomware: Prevention & Recovery
A couple of days ago, I mentioned Backblaze and their newsletter with an article about Tips for working remotely. That newsletter has a link to an older article that discusses how to prevent a ransomware attack and recover if you … Continue reading
Protecting Yourself from Surveillance
Jesse McGraw knows a few things about black hat hacking. He was a participant himself and was convicted of corrupting industrial control systems. Over at Forklog he has an interesting article on some steps you can take to protect yourself … Continue reading