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When “Photography Forbidden” Really Isn’t
Earlier today, I spent a very unproductive hour at a local Social Security Administration office. On the way in, I noticed an interesting sign with the following language: WARNING Title 41, United...
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SiteMeter and Spyware (Sort of)
Tonight word comes from multiple blogs (here, here, here and here) that a popular free stats called SiteMeter made a deal with a third party marketing company called Specific Media to place tracking...
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SiteMeter Responds
As seen in the comments of my previous posts and here, Sitemeter decided to respond. Two points: 1. Why wait for over a week before a response? Blogs are there for a reason – its gives companies...
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Security Advisory – PillPack.com Online Pharmacy
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Overview: ========= PillPack.com, an online pharmacy, uses insufficient identity validation resulting in exposure of private prescription information from...
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Microsoft June Security Update Breaks Copy/Paste of Files in Windows
I recently looked at a problem on a Windows computer that was peculiar. The computer had Windows v8.1 installed and as of last week everything was working fine. Over the weekend Microsoft updates for...
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Appropriate Uses of SSL in Web Applications
SSL is a nice feature to show off to customers – it has a nice lock icon which reassures users that they are secure. However, it comes at a price – the encryption and decryption process does take up...
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Webmin, Rackspace and Securing Servers
Last week my company was making some server changes (which hopefully I will blog about at some point) which necessitates a security check. Being a startup, we cannot afford a format ethical...
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