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Troy Hunt: The mechanics of the iCloud “hack” and how iOS devices are being held to ransom

Troy Hunt: The mechanics of the iCloud “hack” and how iOS devices are being held to ransom Really good write up of the iCloud ransom attacks. That being said I think there is a lot more to be said here … Continue reading

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Twitter / robi_sen: Short history of Boko Haram …

Twitter / robi_sen: Short history of Boko Haram …

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Twitter / robi_sen: Interesting malicious iOS plugin …

Twitter / robi_sen: Interesting malicious iOS plugin … Interesting malicious iOS plugin

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Two-Factor Authentication is not a Silver Bullet

Matt Asay at readwrite.com points to Adobe’s recent security breach as why we need to increase the implementation of Two-Factor Authentication. He points out in his post that many of the passwords in the Adobe leaked dataset were rather weak … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET 4.1 is out

This can be a really useful tool to enhance your MS servers security “Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 4.1 released” http://feedly.com/k/1cVlGXh

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Worth while simple security steps

Here are some good and very simple security habits that will protect you from most basic attacks. “Seven Habits for the Security Conscious | SecurityWeek.Com” http://feedly.com/k/19Gv6hg

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Adafruit tutorial turns your Raspberry Pi into an ad-blocking WiFi access point

This would be a fun little project to teach young students or kids about networking, privacy, and security. Very cool. Adafruit tutorial turns your Raspberry Pi into an ad-blocking WiFi access point.  

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GOOGLE: If You Use Gmail, You Have ‘No Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy’ – SFGate

Ive been telling people this for years. Especially large companies.    GOOGLE: If You Use Gmail, You Have ‘No Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy’ – SFGate.  

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Meru Cabs Launches Smartphone Apps With Emergency Distress Button

“India’s Meru Cabs Launches Smartphone Apps With Emergency Distress Button” http://feedly.com/k/16zQ1Dm

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citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?rep=rep1&type=pdf&doi=10.1.1.131.9449

This is some interesting research and relevant to some of my research:  Secure wireless communications is a challenging problem due to the shared nature of the wireless medium. Most existing security protocols apply cryptographic techniques for bit scrambling at the application … Continue reading

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