Tag Archives: Security

I’ve written before about the wonders of Unicode but this post is an example of its dark side. Over at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center there is an interesting post about the use of Unicode by malware. It seems that … Continue reading →

Smylers over at the Smylers Blog has an outstanding post on little known things you can do with SSH. Even after years of using SSH daily, there were still a couple of tricks new to me in the post. Smylers … Continue reading →

I just stumbled across a nice post on How Attackers Steal Passwords by Joe Golton over at FilterJoe. It’s an interesting look at the common attacks on user passwords. There’s not a lot new or surprising in the post but … Continue reading →

Troy Hunt, whose work I admire and have mentioned before (1, 2, 3) has posted about the XKCD password security cartoon that I wrote about in Password Advice From XKCD. It’s easy to misconstrue his post as being critical of … Continue reading →

The invaluable Troy Hunt has run another analysis of recent dumps of password data from Anonymous, LulzSec, and others. This time he looks at how people select their passwords. As with his previous analyses, the results are depressing. His idea … Continue reading →

In view of today’s XKCD: I thought it would be useful to again mention the post by Jeff over at the Agile Bits Blog. That post discusses making a password by choosing 5 or 6 random words for your passwords. … Continue reading →

I’ve written several (1, 2, 3) posts about the analysis of passwords divulged by groups like LulzSec. The results were terrifyingly consistent: 123456 and password were almost always the most frequently used passwords. Now Daniel Amitay author of the Big … Continue reading →