SSL has now officially been hijacked by hackers. With video of proof this hack, it is sure to be seen in the wild very soon. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer and provides the basic security for all activity across the Internet. So the implications of such a hack are extremely far reaching. This begins [...]

Mint is a all encompassing website to help you track your financial data. The site has been fairly well received by most people. On the surface this site is a pretty good idea. Unlike programs like Quicken which need to be told to pull data (at least on Mac, I can’t speak for the Windows [...]

I apologize, this was going to be a quite lengthy article, but while researching it I found someone had already done a great job. Mattias Geniar wrote a VERY nice article on checking for bad processes. The only thing I could possibly add to this article is to use a file integrity checker such as [...]

The Blizzard Authenticator was announced only a couple of days ago and it’s already sold out. Based on the famous Secure ID tokens, the device is actually pretty simplistic. It merely displays a six digit number changes every minute or so. When logging in users will now be presented with two password fields. The second [...]

I’m not sure why this didn’t get covered more, but on April 14, 2008 John Canfield, Senior Director for Trust & Safety policy management (which sounds like something out of Dilbert) announced that eBay would now track which computers you are logging in to eBay from and track that information. After they fully cut-over, sellers [...]