Category: Security Awareness
Everything filed under Security Awareness.
Keeping Users Safe While Collecting Data
I caught a mention of this project by Pete Warden on Four Short Links today. If his name sounds familiar, he's the creator of the DSTK , an O'Reilly author, and now works at Google. A decidedly clever and decent…
Think Twice Before Using Ohmconnect
I listen to @NPR throughout the day (on most days) and a story on Ohmconnect piqued my interest (it aired 5 days prior to this post). The TLDR on Ohmconnect is that it ostensibly helps you save energy by making you more aware of…
On Watering Holes, Trust, Defensible Systems and Data Science Community Security
I've been threatening to do a series on "data science community security" for a while and had cause to issue this inaugural post today. It all started with…
Clandestine DNS lookups with gdns
Google recently announced their DNS-over-HTTPS API, which "enhances privacy and security between a client and a recursive resolver, and complements DNSSEC to provide end-to-end authenticated DNS lookups". The REST API they provided was…
Paths To Discovery: Mapping Your Home Network
Gone are the days when one had a single computer plugged directly into a modem (cable, DSL or good ol' Hayes). Even the days when there were just one or two computers connected via wires or invisible multi-gigahertz waves passing through…
Beware of sideloading f.lux for iOS from files obtained on sharing/torrent sites
Apple made the @justgetflux folks remove their iOS sideloaded app due to the use of private APIs (which are a violation of the Apple Developer agreement). The ZIP archive has been pulled from their site (and it really has,…
It's Never About The Security...
It's Never About The Security... — rud.is blog archive
π, Awareness, DataVis, VAST 2013, Moar data! & GReader Machinations
Far too many interesting bits to spam on Twitter individually but each is worth getting the word out…
Security Hobos
If you haven't viewed/read Wendy Nather's (@451Wendy) insightful Living Below The Security Poverty Line you really need to do that before continuing (we'll still be here when you get…
Off By One : The Importance Of Fact Checking Breach Reports
I didn't read through the Massachusetts 2011 Report on Data Breach Notifications \[PDF\] until recently, but once I went through the report my brain kept telling me "something is wrong". Not something earth shattering, but more of a…