Tech, food, beer, or anything else I feel like remembering or writing about
There simply is no legitimate reason to limit the special characters one can use in a password, as the site in the image for this post is doing. The reason this was done in the past was because of the risk of SQL injection. However, […]
One of the newer options for multi-factor authentication is using a security key, like the YubiKeys in the picture for this post. While not widely supported yet, many of the big tech companies – Google, Facebook and Dropbox, to list a few examples – do […]
There has been a lot of inaccurate information about Disney+ accounts getting hacked. Some of it was early reporting (before Disney had responded and before much was known about what was happening) and some of it is just lazy reporting. It is pretty clear now, […]
There are several of these making the rounds yet again. In just the last week I have seen ones for Bud Light, Coors and Costco. There have probably been others. The problem is, the vast majority of these are phishing (or more specifically, clickjacking) scams. […]
Another passion of mine is our two greyhounds, Maeve and Bobbi. Both girls are retired racers, and they are eight and seven years old, respectively. Maeve was a pretty good racer; she ran 103 races and won 21 of them. Bobbi wasn’t as good. She […]
I needed to be able to split some PDF documents for another site I’m working on, so I went searching on the internet for something I could use – preferably free, since I don’t think it’s something I’ll regularly need. I found PDFSam Basic (they […]
Password rules suck (or worse). But what is the solution? Two-factor (or multi-factor) authentication. In other words, combining something you know (your password) with something you have (phone, 2FA key, biometrics, etc.). A common way a lot of sites do this is sending a text […]
As mentioned in my introduction, I recently changed positions at work, and I am now heading our newly created secure coding team. I’ve always had a strong interest in making sure our applications were as secure as possible, and in the early days at my […]
Hello! I don’t know if anyone besides me will end up reading this blog, so at least for now it’s mainly geared towards helping me remember things I’ve done, something I liked, etc. It will probably be tech heavy at first, because my initial point […]