Why Every Website Wants You to Accept Its Cookies
Via @EmilyStewartM If you’ve visited a new website over the past 18 months or so, you’ve probably seen it: a notification informing you the page is using cookies to track you and asking you to agree to let it happen. Wonder why? Read full article
Stop Trying to Memorize Your Passwords
The odds are very good one or more of the passwords you've used at some point during your online life has been compromised. Passwords are occasionally highjacked en masse when hackers manage to breach security systems put in place to protect online user databases and the like. Big breaches make national headlines, but the majority pass by...
RIP Fernando “Corby” Corbató, Inventor of the Password
Via @matthewhughes MIT computer scientist Fernando “Corby” Corbató passed away at his home in Newton, Massachusetts. He was 93. Read full article
Chrome to Block Unsecure Content from Loading on HTTPS Pages
Via @codyenglish Google announced plans to inform users of its Chrome browser when sites utilize insecure connections. Read full article
Exercise caution with all money transfer requests
The number of ways thieves can steal from you on the Internet is many. But one of the most insidious — albeit clever — might be a request for an urgent money transfer you receive via email that seems to come from your manager or company's finance chief. Except that email didn't come from your manager or anyone inside your organization. Instead, it's a...
2018 Has Been Open Season on Open Source Supply Chains
Via Tom Spring Increasingly threat actors are planting bad code in open-source repositories in the hopes to harvest the flaws late. Read full article
7 Common Ways Sites Get Compromised
Via Ezequiel Bruni People who break into other systems are nothing if not predictable. There are a number of pretty common kinds of attacks that can be prevented largely through simple forethought and planning. Read full article
hy Privacy Is The Internet’s Most User-Friendly Feature
Via Christian Stewart | @stewofkc Privacy policies protect companies legally. They tell consumers how the company collects, stores and uses their data. Unfortunately, these privacy policies aren’t negotiable — to use the service users have to agree to the policy in its whole. Privacy policies offer transparency, but not control. Read full article