A client contacted me unsure whether the be honored or worried when he came across his own site completely cached on another domain name “domainname.newvirtuallife.com”, doing a Google of the domain name “newvirtuallife.com” gave me dozens of other examples of …
Category Archives: Security
Single Sign On adds security, right?
SSO technologies have been around for over a decade now, we all have used them to some degree.
Apples Keychain goes back to PowerTalk, combining multiple email accounts with a single set of credentials. Microsoft Passport expanded the idea further …
Operation Prism
I’d started writing a piece about CALEA earlier this week, other things came up, and I thought it would just be another nonstarter. The US’s Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is designed to make it easier for law …
What’s a good backup plan?
Well the answer is pretty simple really; it’s one that’s been tested. It’s not the first time someone has come to me asking to restore a system claiming to have backups that I have been unable to help.
In this …
Spammers, its nothing personal
Over the last week I’ve been helping out a couple of bloggers on WordPress issues.
Both have similar problems, despite having captchas enabled on registration. Both have ridiculous numbers of fake subscribers (one, 5000+ a week), an equally high number …