May 19, 2013
by Neil T
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Back in August I wrote about how to enable two factor authentication across many web sites. Well, at the time, this was Google, Yahoo!, Facebook and Battle.net, although Dropbox was working on it. I’ve now updated that blog post. Dropbox … Continue reading
August 30, 2012
by Neil T
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A few weeks ago I wrote about enabling two-factor authentication on several web sites, and yesterday LifeHacker published a similar article with a few more sites. One of these is WordPress – not wordpress.com, but self-hosted blogs, as it turns … Continue reading
August 7, 2012
by Neil T
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You may have heard about the unfortunate tale of Mat Honan, an editor at Gizmodo whose iCloud account was hacked. This resulted in his iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air being remotely wiped, and his Twitter and Google accounts compromised as … Continue reading
August 2, 2012
by Neil T
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Do you have a WordPress blog? Do you have an administrator account called ‘admin’? If you do, please log into phpMyAdmin (or whatever client you use to access your MySQL database) and run the following SQL query: UPDATE wp_users SET … Continue reading
August 1, 2012
by Neil T
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If you have a few spare minutes, have a read of this blog post by Troy Hunt regarding Tesco’s poor password security. Tesco, for the uninitiated, is the UK’s largest supermarket who also sells groceries online, and is presumably used … Continue reading
June 7, 2012
by Neil T
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You may have already heard that around 6.5 million passwords have been leaked from LinkedIn. The cause is not yet confirmed, and although the passwords were hashed using SHA-1 it’s only a matter of time before a dictionary attack against … Continue reading
March 15, 2012
by Neil T
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Firefox 11 was made available on Tuesday – if you haven’t yet updated, this blog post may convince you to, as with a little tweak your web browsing should get significantly quicker. Firefox 11 now has experimental support for SPDY, … Continue reading
June 30, 2011
by Neil T
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Upon logging into my WordPress dashboard, I noticed an update to WordPress was available. Alas, it wasn’t the expected WordPress 3.2, but 3.1.4 – a security fix. Therefore, if you’re using WordPress, you’ll need to update your install. One of … Continue reading
February 27, 2011
by Neil T
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You’re probably familiar with HTTPS – the encrypted form of HTTP that your web browser uses when sending sensitive data.
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February 19, 2011
by Neil T
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Google has recently enabled two-factor authentication for all users with a Google Account. This means that, when you log in, you provide two pieces of secret information, rather than just a password.
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