Tag Archives: Security

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.

September 27, 2011 – 2:03 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

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.

September 26, 2011 – 10:14 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Hackers turn MySQL.com into malware launchpad

What the heck is Ora­cle doing with MySQL?

September 26, 2011 – 6:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

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.

September 26, 2011 – 1:21 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Security, Software Code | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Scripting News – Facebook is scaring me

Count me in the group of peo­ple now stay­ing logged out of Face­book by default.

September 24, 2011 – 5:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Freedom to Tinker – NJ election cover-up

Just plain scary a whole elec­tion result con­sid­ered null and void, no idea what hap­pened, who to blame or how to fix the problem.

September 14, 2011 – 12:50 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

RScott.org – GoDaddy’s New “Selective DNS Blackouts” Policy

As if you needed another rea­son to not use GoDaddy.

September 6, 2011 – 2:05 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off