Via @matthewhughes
MIT computer scientist Fernando “Corby” Corbató passed away at his home in Newton, Massachusetts. He was 93.
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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...Read more
Via Tom Spring
Increasingly threat actors are planting bad code in open-source repositories in the hopes to harvest the flaws late.
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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.
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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...Read more
Via Nitasha Tiku | @nitashatiku
Users can download and review a lot of information with the Facebook "Download Your Data" tool. But it hardly tells you everything Facebook knows about you.
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Via Team Seven Boats
Your own website or blog is not out of danger. You need to boost your CMS password in ways that can resist threats and attacks. To begin with, you need to work on your passwords.
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Via Andy Schaff
If you have a website, it should be on https. It’s not a magical force-field that will protect your site from getting hacked. But, if implemented properly, it will garner trust in your users.
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Via Geebo
The man behind some of the password best practices we've all been living with since 2003 says not only does he regret these guidelines, but they're no longer effective.
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