- Online banking: what the BBC missed and a safety suggestion - 02/06/2012 05:23 PM
The good news is that the BBC recently warned the British public about the dangers of Man in the Browser attacks, raising awareness of the most insidious danger with online banking. The bad news is their exclusive focus on Windows, the most-attacked operating system. I offer some simple, free suggestions for Windows users, that make online banking more secure.
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- Scrubbing email out of a Windows computer - 02/03/2012 01:17 PM
The legacy approach to email, typified by Microsoft's Outlook program, permanently mated email to one computer. While cleaning up an old Windows XP laptop, so that it could be given away, I ran across a not-so-obvious flaw in this scheme. Removing all traces of email accounts requires lots of registry hacking.
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- Online banking has multiple elephants in its room - 01/20/2012 11:50 PM
A recent New York Times editorial on online banking suggested that many banks are not up to the task of security. However, the editorial writer mis-understands some of the technology. Some of the defensive steps suggested in the editorial are a sham, while three major dangers were omitted entirely.
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- Wi-Fi routers: Oldies are goodies - 01/10/2012 12:12 PM
When it comes to Wi-Fi routers, WPS is bad news. Not only does it have a design flaw that reveals the Wi-Fi password, but on some routers it can't be turned off. Older routers don't support WPS at all and thus are safer.
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