Updated: 2012-12-24 20:25:08
Welcome to the December podcast – our last official podcast of 2012. In this episode, I’ll be running down some of the biggest online privacy and security events of the last year. From the Zappos and LinkedIn password breaches, to the epic hacking of reporter Mat Honan, I’ll be providing user tips and suggestions to [...]
Updated: 2012-12-12 21:56:26
spider.io is talking about a bug they discovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 6-10. Evidently the bug allows tracking of your mouse movement even if the browser window has been minimized and you have a different application active. They say that at least two companies providing display ad analytics are already using this exploit to improve [...]
Updated: 2012-12-11 16:33:33
Numberphile recently posted a video about the math behind RSA encryption. In the video below, a brief description of public key cryptography is given and then we are shown a simple example of the math used to perform encryption and decryption (math example @ 2:25). In the video, James skips over the method for determining [...]
Updated: 2012-12-02 00:42:48
It looks like Syria is back on the Internet again. I have not seen any indications of unusual atrocities the, so why the short outage?
Updated: 2012-11-30 16:52:34
Fast Company has a good article laying out the state of events regarding the Internet in Syria. Here is the short version. Syria has changed tactics from keeping the Internet available but highly monitored and surveilled, to turning off apparently absolutely all Internet connectivity within the country. Syria was unique in its cyber response to [...]
Updated: 2012-11-16 22:18:55
Welcome to our November 2012 podcast. In this episode, I’ll be talking about the tactics websites use to charge one customer more than a customer in a different city, state, or country. After that, I’ll discuss the dangers of using the Internet while on the road – as many of you are likely to do [...]
Updated: 2012-11-14 17:54:41
Dictionary apps post false piracy confessions on Twitter – Crave The Oxford Deluxe dictionary app requests access to your twitter account when it is installed. In some cases it then uses that account to post hundreds of identical tweets saying that you will pledge to stop pirating software. It is not exactly clear what criteria [...]
Updated: 2012-11-14 17:30:46
Google Transparency Report shows government surveillance, takedown requests are up. The number of information requests coming to Google from governments around the world is growing fast. It is up 55% for the first half of 2012 vs. the first half of 2010. The linked article has some nice graphs showing the trend. It is interesting [...]
Updated: 2012-11-08 18:24:48
EU officials ‘hacked’ at Azerbaijan Internet Governance Forum | ZDNet It appears that the laptops of two EU officials at the Internet Governance Forum in Azerbaijan got hacked while they were in the hotel. Suspicion is immediately falling on the Azerbaijan government. No one is mentioning breaking and entering, so I would assume they were [...]
