Category Archives: Security

Apple Location Issue – Scaring the Uninformed

So the Apple issue hit the web news yesterday.  All the “OMG HAXXX” and Fox News proclaiming your spouse or employee can monitor your every move stories hit the web and to the non-technical people this seemed like the worst thing ever.   The first thing that came to my mind?  I thought “This is awesome …

April 21, 2011 – 1:18 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Security, Technology | Comments (0)

A New Idea on Getting Out of Jury Duty

While driving into work today I was listening to This Week in Law.  There was a discussion on mistrials that are occurring because jury members have been using Twitter or looking up information online.  You can’t put the genie back into the lamp for the internet, so it’s something the legal system is grappling with …

January 25, 2011 – 1:29 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing, Security | Comments (0)

Spammers Actually Commenting Completely

Spammers as part of the conversation, how do you resolve this?  I understand how to deal with normal blog spam, ala “Check out my webcam or herbal remedies here”.   What do you do when they take part in the conversation.   The spam part comes into their website link, but they are actually commenting on topic …

September 23, 2009 – 11:25 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Security, Technology | Comments (1)

The Authentication Hole in Autocheck.com

While shopping for cars this weekend, we decided to do a VIN history check against the cars we were looking out.   While we didn’t find any that had been in a flood or a wreck (the things they scare you into doing these checks), we did find a few cars that had been used as …

February 23, 2009 – 6:08 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Security | Comments (2)

WordPress Post By E-Mail Sucks

One thing that has always annoyed me about WordPress is it’s “I don’t think about security for features” attitude.    Over time they have locked down the APIs a bit more.   They are now disabled by default.  Default passwords are complex when using a suggested one in the current version.   So what is my complaint? Posting …

February 19, 2009 – 3:09 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Security, Technology | Comments (8)

WordPress Has Been Updated To 2.7.1

Actually it updated yesterday, but I didn’t receive the notification last night to update it within the admin console.  I looked and looked for it, this morning it finally popped up.  Go here to see the changes between 2.7 and 2.7.1.  Now be a good blogosphere citizen and update your blogs.

February 11, 2009 – 12:30 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Security, Technology | Comments (4)

Now Other Local Governments Want The Ability To Jam Cell Phones

Image from here A few weeks ago I wrote about the NYPD want the ability to turn disable cellphone coverage in the case of a terrorist attack. Now it seems that states and local governments are fighting for their own ability to do that.   In my previous story I pointed how fruitless and ineffective it …

February 2, 2009 – 11:26 am | By Creeva | Posted in Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)