Hopefully, last Thursday, you weren’t hiding under a rock, because a major news story broke about a serious internet security threat. Dubbed “Cloudbleed,” experts deem…
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You’ve likely already noticed that many websites, including the Dynamic Website Kits that OPLIN manages, now have URLs that often begin with “https://” rather than…
It was supposed to be a speech at Kenyon College about encryption and privacy by FBI Director James Comey, but what caught everyone’s attention was…
OPLIN 4cast #448: Pro-am cybersecurity
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Last week, while this blog was scaring you with tales of hackers-for-hire, the Google folks were presenting some interesting security practices research [pdf] at the…
OPLIN 4cast #398: Google and HTTPS
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Google made an interesting announcement last week. Because they want to promote the use of secure, encoded HTTPS for website connections, they are going to…
OPLIN 4cast #397: BadUSB
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As if you needed something else to worry about, there seems to be a strong possibility that USB devices can be used in new and…
Over the past couple of months, Dan Goodin wrote two articles in Ars Technica about password and passphrase protection that have been widely quoted in…
OPLIN 4cast #344: Basic protection
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There was an interesting posting on the codeinsecurity blog a little over a month ago, which we didn’t see until recently, called “The anti-virus age…
People who work with Internet security have for some time advocated the use of “two-factor authentication” instead of a simple password control over access to…