Tag Archives: Security

If you’re running OS X and use the native mail app, you know that it can be hard to integrate the GPG encryption suite. Fortunately, there’s a custom solution for the Mac called GPGTools that integrates GPG with OS X … Continue reading →

Matthew Green over at Cryptography Engineering has a depressing piece on the security status of the network. He says that the network is hostile and that that hostility is baked in by its design. Our packets travel through routers and … Continue reading →

is the hard part.

What could go wrong?

Remember all those apologies from Lenovo after their stealth installation of the SuperFish adware was revealed? Apparently they didn’t really mean them. As the old saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Unless … Continue reading →

Via Matt Blaze: My first assumption after reading this was that Oracle's web server was hacked and this article is a parody. https://t.co/ODpT4L76TE — matt blaze (@mattblaze) August 11, 2015 Oracle’s Mary Ann Davidson wrote an astoundingly foolish and arrogant … Continue reading →

Over at the Google Security Blog, Lulia Lon, Rob Reeder, and Sunny Consolvo have an interesting post on some research they did on what security experts do differently from non-expert to stay safe on the Internet. The post is the … Continue reading →

It’s 2015 and this is still happening: for shits and giggles I port scanned my wife's new Cadillac. Both FTP and HTTP are open. pic.twitter.com/8Xb4o89fCd — Steve Manzuik (@hellNbak_) July 25, 2015 Matt BLaze suggests the reason for the above: … Continue reading →