The One-Time Password plugin for WordPress is probably overkill for most of us, but if you regularly need to login to WordPress from computers that you don’t control, this would certainly add an additional layer of security.
Tag archives for Security
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BTProx is an open source application for Windows that will automatically lock your Windows Desktop if your bluetooth-enabled cellphone is no longer nearby, It locks on one of your Bluetooth devices which are paired to the the machine. When you walk away from the computer the device is disconnected and the computer is locked after…
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A couple years ago I downloaded and tried the open source password manager KeePass, but ultimately passed on it in favor of RoboForm. The other day I decided to give it a second look since I needed something that was cross-platform. After tinkering around with it for a few minutes I was sold. I can’t…
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Theft of World of Warcraft accounts is a huge problem. The perception is that gold farmers are finding it much more lucrative to simply hack people’s accounts by tricking them into to installing keyloggers rather than actually use in-game bots to farm resources. There is an entire class of trojans now aimed largely at WoW…
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Noupe.Com has a nice list of tips for making a WordPress install more secure.
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The other day I was assisting a group that needed to attend one of these “webinars” where we’re projecting a laptop onto a screen while we’re listening to a speaker over a POTS line. As the e-mail from the company sponsoring the webinar suggested, I dialed in about 20 minutes before the conference started to…
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A couple weeks ago I mentioned the security problems that had been discovered in photo sharing site SmugMug.Com, which were exacerbated by SmugMug.Com CEO Don MacAskill’s arrogant response to people who bothered to point out the problems with his company’s security model. In response to the publicity across the Internet, MacAskill issued a challenge —…
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Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped created a mini-storm this week when he discovered a major security hole in the way photo-sharing site SmugMug.Com implements its privacy settings for photos people have uploaded to the site. Unfortunately, SmugMug’s reaction so far has been very…well…smug. People who post photos on SmugMug want to be able to share…
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Over the past 6 months or so, I’ve really been trying to take a more systematic attempt to keep my data and online activities safe from prying eyes. The last thing I’d want to happen is end up in one of those news stories about some idiot whose lacksidasical attitude toward security resulted in the…
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This week saw a flurry of articles on an alleged security risk — 1/3rd of workers in a survey said they write down their passwords in one form or another. Nucleus Research and KnowledgeStorm, which performed the survey, portrayed this as a serious security problem and recommended biometrics and other security methods. According to ZDNet,…