I found this article about the Syrian Electronic Army hacking The Onion fascinating. They pulled it off with phishing. In particular, they embedded malicious links in friendly sounding email. Once they got a few people to bite, they used those compromised email accounts to…

My 8-year-old niece slept over our house over the weekend. As I was watching her sit behind the family iMac, I saw her search for “My Little Pony”. Her first hit was an OpenDNS blocked porn site. You see, searching “My Little Pony” does…

Given the latest stories about Java vulnerabilities, this is probably a good idea. Uncheck “Enable Java” in the Security pane of Safari’s preferences.

The not-so-surprising news this week is that if someone gets physical possession of your stuff, there is a really good chance they’ll get the electronic bits too. Remember to get a separate secured database on those mobile devices (like 1Password secure notes) so there…