Tag Archives: Security

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

Posted on 2012-03-25 by jcs

One of our interests here at Irreal is security so we are occasionally obligated to report on the doings of the TSA. The reason for this is that the TSA so often serves as an example of how not to … Continue reading →

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About Those Insecure RSA Keys

Posted on 2012-03-22 by jcs

Last month I wrote a short post on some research that showed some RSA public keys are insecure. A couple days ago I noticed that the excellent Programming Praxis has a challenge based on that research and subsequent reporting in … Continue reading →

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TSA: Worse Than You Thought

Posted on 2012-03-08 by jcs

Jon Corbett over at TSA Out of Our Pants is making his displeasure with the TSA felt and in the process has become a real thorn in their side. After being denied access to his flight when he refused to … Continue reading →

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Script Kiddies At Work

Posted on 2012-03-07 by jcs

Kura over at SYSLOG has a really great animation showing the origins of SSH attacks on a single server during a 24 hour period. It’s another reminder, if you needed one, to lock down your machines. It’s pretty obvious these … Continue reading →

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They Never Learn

Posted on 2012-02-23 by jcs

By now, most everyone has heard about the YouPorn Chat break in. John Graham-Cumming has the details. Due to very sloppy security YouPorn exposed the email addresses and passwords for many of their customers who signed up in 2008 and … Continue reading →

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Some RSA Public Keys Are Insecure

Posted on 2012-02-14 by jcs

According to The New York Times, a team of European and American researchers have discovered that some (about 0.2%) RSA public keys are insecure. The insecurity is the result of using prime factors that aren’t cryptographically random. I’m still reading … Continue reading →

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TSA: So Incompetent It Surprises Even Me

Posted on 2012-02-01 by jcs

We here at Irreal, like almost everyone else in the world, are not fans of the Transportation Security Administration. Their ability to combine heavy-handedness with incompetence exceeds even that of the typical DMV office. Still, the sheer assclownery of their … Continue reading →

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Password Cluelessness

Posted on 2012-01-03 by jcs

Over at self.li, Peter Legierski has a horrifying post about password cluelessness. The tl;dr is that fon, described as the “world’s largest Wi-Fi Network” keeps its passwords as plain text. Legierski knows this because when he forgot his password and … Continue reading →

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And The Winner Is…

Posted on 2011-11-24 by jcs

…password. SplashID has a list of 2011’s 25 most popular passwords as culled from the various exploits of LulzSec, Anonymous, and others. As expected, the runner up is 123456. Readers of this blog will find none of this surprising but … Continue reading →

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More SSH Tricks

Posted on 2011-09-20 by jcs

Tycho Garen has a nice post with some SSH tricks to make your life easier. This serves as an excellent follow on to my previous post on the subject. There’s a bit of overlap but enough new material that it’s … Continue reading →

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