chris @ June 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Usability of Passwords | Baekdal.com
It is often said that there is a trade-off between usability and security. This article shows a way to passwords that are usable and secure — and explains why and how.
(tags: security password authentication)
chris @ June 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Buggy 'smart meters' open door to power-grid botnet • The Register
Ugh. "To prove his point, Davis and his IOActive colleagues designed a worm that self-propagates across a large number of one manufacturer's smart meter. Once infected, the device is under the control of the malware developers in much the way infected PCs are under the […]
chris @ June 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Lars Eggert : DKIM Deployment Trends
This is a very strange survey. The methodology makes basically no sense to me — are they guessing the selector? "The scripts that update this page retrieve the names of the web sites that are most popular across the globe, as well as in select countries, from alexa.com in regular […]
chris @ June 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The New Yorker | Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum
(tags: economics healthcare USA NewYorker)
Ars Technica | Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an hour
(tags: security research hacking privacy botnet internet)