I did a brief press appearance on CNN this afternoon to talk about my firing from the VA and what that means for VA.gov cybersecurity. Here’s the video, with a transcript below it. Transcript Jessica Dean: A warning from a fired cybersecurity official for the department of veterans affairs. He sounded the alarm, saying sensitive… Read More: Feb. 26 live CNN interview about VA.gov cybersecurity »
Author Lily Hay Newman does an incredible job capturing the high stakes of compromising the security of VA.gov.
Ads from Google are too scammy and too intrusive. I should have turned them off long ago. Now I have. If you appreciate that, please consider kicking in a few bucks to make up for the lost revenue.
I’ve run my own mail server for 30+ years. It’s a pain sometimes, but I’m a stubborn old cuss and I think it’s worth it both because I value my privacy and don’t want my emails being stored on somebody else’s servers, and because I’m a sysadmin at heart and I love a good sysadmin… Read More: Yet another night debugging email delivery problems »
Why you might want to anonymize the email addresses for your online accounts, some techniques for how to do that, and the details of how I did it myself, including stats, stories, and scripts.
Whatever Eastern Bank’s priorities were in rolling out its new portal, good UX and security seemingly weren’t among them.
I’m fairly certain I did not eat “Enjoy Cock Cayenne Pepper Hot Sauce” last week. So why does the MyFitnessPal app say I did?
Even if you jump through all of PayPal’s hoops and give them all the information they ask for when creating an account, they may still decide to arbitrarily lock you out of your account and never restore your access.
It’s a bad idea to entirely rely on the company hosting your password manager to back up your data.
When you force people to use hard-to-remember passwords, you’re actually forcing them to use bad passwords.