Security

Security related blog entries can be found here.

Strange SSL woes
Posted : Wednesday October 14th, 2009

I encountered a strange problem yesterday that I am still trying to resolve. Basically I went to an HTTPS url in Firefox and it got very upset. Essentially tells me that the con...read more

Privacy and Security
Posted : Friday August 7th, 2009

It seems that recently privacy and security issues are all over the place and more than ever. Facebook is being threatened by the Canadian privacy commissioner. Toronto Hydro se...read more

Why I hate Apple
Posted : Wednesday May 20th, 2009

Before I get started here I just want to say this. If you have a Mac and like it, then that's great and personally I would prefer just to run some Linux variant all the time mys...read more

Tracing 316.70.50.1
Posted : Monday May 4th, 2009

As computers and the internet are so much a part of our lives it's not a great surprise to see technology becoming more a part of the fabric of stories in entertainment media. T...read more

The flip side
Posted : Tuesday April 28th, 2009

Of my ongoing Ubuntu issues is of course the standard Windows security by hijinks. Trying to install Tomcat 6...read more

As seen on the internet
Posted : Wednesday April 22nd, 2009

I am quoted a few times in an article that was published today in Microsoft Home Magazine. The article can be found ...read more

Cross-site-scripting
Posted : Friday April 10th, 2009

While there are many resources and discussions about cross-site scripting attacks (sometimes pretentiously described as XSS) the number of major websites that continue to...read more

Why fulfilling demand is sometimes a mistake
Posted : Thursday February 12th, 2009

When it comes to anything really but particularly software development, sometimes people feel that every whim should be catered to, every need filled and every request served. B...read more

On Ubuntu
Posted : Sunday December 21st, 2008

I have permanently given up on using Windows as my primary OS. Mainly because it's just so insecure. Having to run anti-virus and anti spy-ware programs 100% of the time is just...read more

Excitement
Posted : Friday August 8th, 2008

So... it's been kind of an interesting time lately. Some servers that I am looking after as the usual admin is away on vacation were hacked. There was both a SQL injection attac...read more

Time for ISP responsibility
Posted : Friday July 25th, 2008

So several weeks after the DNS flaw was first announced, and several days after details were leaked on the internet ...read more

Keep a lid on it
Posted : Tuesday July 22nd, 2008

So if you don't know there was been a fairly large story about a security hole in DNS. In short a problem in the way that most cacheing DNS servers are implemented means that th...read more

4 minutes till doomsday
Posted : Tuesday July 15th, 2008

In a story published Sunday to the SANS Internet Storm blog, the average survival time for an unpatched Windows compute...read more

The weakest link
Posted : Thursday July 10th, 2008

As they say, a chain is only as long as its weakest link. So how strong is your security chain? The reality is that the weakest link for most secure systems is not the s...read more

No push please
Posted : Sunday May 11th, 2008

A sure sign of an application that has been poorly thought out from a security perspective is one that allows for "push" ownership. At this point you are either saying "...read more

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