Category Archives: Security

NYTimes.com – Bank of America Explains Web Site Problems

Bank of Amer­ica, we weren’t hacked instead we are just incompetent.

Macworld – The App Culture

This was the largest fear with Lion, and Apple has yet to respond in a way that alle­vi­ates people’s fears for such apps that need a higher level of access that it appears that Apple will allow.

NPR – OnStar Hits Reverse: It Won’t Keep Collecting Data From Old Customers

OnStar how­ever still hasn’t changed it’s mind about sell­ing data it col­lects from cur­rent cus­tomers at some point.

Ars Technica – Three Senators condemn OnStar for tracking former customers

Glad I don’t own a vehi­cle with OnStar installed. It’s more than a lit­tle sleazy to col­lect and sell infor­ma­tion from for­mer customers.

PCMag – Google Patches Flash Zero Day Bug, Jumps the Gun on Adobe Again

The bad habit isn’t Google patch­ing secu­rity holes it’s Adobe not patch­ing them first.

Ars Technica – Hackers turn MySQL.com into malware launchpad

What the heck is Ora­cle doing with MySQL?

Mark Story – Using bcrypt for passwords in CakePHP

Awe­some, I tried doing this in CakePHP 1.3 a few weeks ago but couldn’t get it to work right all the time.