Tag Archives: security

News Limited Seeks Excess Access To Your Social Media Accounts

With the News Limited mastheads moving to the “metered paywall” model for their online activities, I curiously checked out what sort of information they might want to sign-up as a registered user. I was a bit surprised. When signing up using your Twitter account, they want access to “read tweets from your timeline”, “see who […]

Zero Day Credibility Hole

In another episode of why writers shouldn’t be writing articles when the don’t know what they are talking about, the Fairfax press have come up with this one this morning about a new vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer’s Huge Security Hole “Zero-day exploits involve software that takes advantage of a security hole within […]

iPhone Tracking Data – How Dangerous?

There has been a lot of to-and-fro -(particularly in the tech industry) – over the last week or so in regards to whether or not Apple’s tracking of iPhone locations is a good or a bad thing. Many commentators have landed on the “it is bad” side of the argument. Many have landed on the […]

Spam Scam Coming Through a Portal Near You!

Some minutes ago, I noticed that my spam filters had successfully blocked an email purporting to come from one of my secondary email addresses, addressed to my primary email address. Well done spam filters! Amused, I sent this tweet, stating: “I must have pissed myself off somwhere/somehow…one of my email addresses is sending spam to […]

Dell Email Database Breached

This evening it was reported that Australian customers of global computer manufacturer Dell, may have been part of a security breach in which their name and email address have been exposed to hackers. I received the following email warning from Dell: Are you affected? If you’ve ever done business with Dell which included the supply […]

Important Twitter Security Enhancement

Twitter today announced a new security feature enabling HTTPS for all web connections to the service. HTTPS is a secure/encrypted version of the standard web protocol, HTTP. This follows similar recent changes by Facebook. Using HTTPS where possible/available is important – it means that all your communications with the Twitter site are encrypted end-to-end from […]

SPF Fail – One for the SysAdmin Nerds

In one for the nerdy mail system administrators out there, I spotted a rather uncommon SPF result in my SMTP logs this morning. If you know your SPF, you’ll know that no matter what IP address a piece of email comes from, with these records, the email will ALWAYS pass an SPF lookup. Clearly an […]

More Internet Wrongness

I have a couple of Google Alerts set up to look for content online referring to myself, mainly just to see how people are using my content. I don’t have a problem with people using my content, and believe in the principles of Creative Commons, under which I licence my site. I just like to […]

Tell The Truth Fairfax!

Sitting down to lunch this afternoon, I found an email from the “Fairfax Digital Membership Team”, advising me of “an important message about [my] newsletters”. I have signed up for a few newsletters of interest to be delivered, and generally find something interesting to read. However, it was the nature of this “important message” that […]