Tomorrow is billed as ‘The Day We Fight Back‘, against online surveilance. Michele has blogged about it earlier. It’s something we support here at Technology.ie because we believe that the erosion of trust caused by unchecked surveillance jeopardises the freedom and prosperity which is the promise of technology. If you are in Galway, there’s an information […]
A security leak from Snapchat has seen seen 4.6m usernames and corresponding phone numbers leaked, but so far there is no indication that it includes any users outside of the US and some Canadian area-codes. It’s impossible to say whether data on users outside the US was also obtained but not published. Those who published […]
Thanks to James for bringing this to my attention. If it wasn’t made by Microsoft Research, I might be afraid this site is a password stealer. What it actually is is a tool to help you test your password to see how guessable it is. Think no one can guess your password? Go ahead and […]
Security experts have spent the past week discussing the extraordinary claims by researcher Dragos Ruiu that he has discovered a sophisticated malware that infects BIOS, operates across multiple OSs, persists despite efforts to remove it, covers its tracks and – most surprisingly – uses ultrasonic audio signalling to overcome air gaps. It’s the stuff of […]
I mentioned Patch Tuesday yesterday. Did you know that it is 10 years old this month? Prior to October 2003, Microsoft issued updates on an ad-hoc basis. This caused problems for their customers, particularly in large organisations where configuration management must be carefully handled. I worked in one of those at the time and […]
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last few days you’ll be aware that the US government has shut down. While a lot of reports have focussed on which services were impacted by the shut down several of the technology sites have been looking at online services. Ars Technica reports on the apparently arbitrary […]
Privacy is and will continue to be a hot topic in tech circles over the coming years. With more and more of our daily lives being managed online we’re going to be interacting with more and more companies that will want to track us (or not .. ) This graphic (via) focusses on some of […]
While most of the media coverage and social media conversations around the NSA and Prism have focussed on the security and privacy implications, some people obviously thought that the NSA could have done a better job of the slides. So one industrious designer went off and re-did them: Dear NSA, let me take care of […]
Just back from meetings in Brussels and London, Michele joins Conn for a podcast. They check out the Irish language version of EURid’s site and look ahead to ICANN 46, next week in Beijing. Michele explains the Cyberbunker attack on Spamhaus: who are they, and what’s behind it. And are some people guilty of exaggerating […]
The guys over at Realex Payments have put together a nice and simple graphic showing a number of key security tips for mobile apps. Source
