I have a new post up on Makeuseof, regarding Firefox Addons for Privacy and Security. Maybe you won’t use all of them but even installing some of them (NoScript in particular) can really lower your chances of getting hit with a javascript exploit.
Categories: Programs, Security, Software
Tagged: extensions, firefox, privacy, Security
As soon as I heard PayPal would be offering a $5 Security Key for additional security while logging in, I jumped on it. A few days later, it arrived in the mail. It’s a great idea, but I decided that carrying a little secure key that generates special numbers for the 3 times [...]
Categories: Hardware, Security, Social Media
Tagged: cellular telephone, MyOpenID, openid, Security, smart card, target site, two factor, USD, verisign, Verisign Labs PIP
Found an encyclopedic list of “stupid” .htaccess tricks. Includes many useful ones such as being able to stop hotlinking of images and replacing with your own, increasing speed and security and general good-to-know htaccess information.
Stupid htaccess tricks
Categories: Code Samples, Configurations, PHP, Security, System Administration, Webdesign
If you are a system administrator, you should dread any time you use the normal “ls” command and receive a strange error in return. That is a sure sign that your machine has been hacked and ls has been replaced by an unknown program. Gnist blog has a nicely written step-by-step list of what you [...]
Categories: Linux, Security, System Administration
If you are a Google user – meaning Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader, etc – then you should know that by default, once you log in your sessions are typically not encrypted between your browser and the Google servers.
For some more technical information on this, check out dmiessler’s post on the subject.
He [...]
Categories: Configurations, JavaScript, Security, Windows
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