I found an interesting article today studying the frequency of PIN usage on the iPhone. If you have an easily guessable PIN number then you really are doing yourself a disservice. I’d bet that people who use these common PIN numbers on their iPhones use them everywhere else as well. If you find yourself in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Security’
7 Jan
Generating Thousands Of Random Passwords
Occasionally at work I am called upon to pick passwords for my end users. They would prefer that I use passwords like “password” or “1234567890.” We all know how secure that is. I prefer to randomly generate a password for them. I have a website bookmarked that I use to generate a few passwords at [...]
30 Aug
SSL Identification Errors
Our clergy e-mail server at work is running a Thawte SSL123 certificate for securing all webmail, POP/SSL and SMTP/SSL traffic. They have been an excellent certificate authority and we have used them for several years now. Unfortunately, the certificate in question expired over the weekend. I was supposed to renew it late Saturday night or [...]
12 Aug
Red Link of Death
Leave it to Google to come up with interesting new things. I downloaded the latest version of Chrome and noticed that several things have changed. You can now synchronize extensions and preferences across browsers. The best part though is the new graphic for SSL certificates: This is the graphic that you now see when you [...]
30 Jul
Concurrent Connections
I have noticed over the last few days that we have had Roadrunner messages in our main e-mail gateway stuck in our queue with the following error: 56FE71501A1C 1695 Fri Jul 30 08:32:19 noreply@nowhere.com (host hrndva-smtpin02.mail.rr.com[71.74.56.244] refused to talk to me: 421 4.7.1 – Connection refused – - Too many concurrent connections from source IP) [...]
15 Jul
Practice Safe Searching
As I was navigating the internet today at work I noticed a new Google feature that seems rather interesting: Google has released the beta version of their https encrypted search website. Google probably didn’t encrypt their searches from the beginning due to the increased overhead of the https protocol. After several test searches I cannot [...]
13 Jan
Google Stands Up To China
Google is taking a courageous stand against China. Good for them! We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that “we will carefully [...]
27 Aug
Antivirus
The NC State Office of Information Technology has produced a video outlining the importance of installing antivirus software on your computer. You may not qualify for their software but you should run something!
