MarcAuslander - Slashdot User

+ - Security is hard - slashdot's certificate has expired? 1

Submitted by MarcAuslander on Sunday April 21, 2013 @06:59PM

MarcAuslander writes "From firefox:

slashdot.org uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate expired on 4/21/2013 4:29 PM. The current time is 4/21/2013 6:57 PM."

+ - LinkedIn Confirms Account Passwords Hacked-> 0

Submitted by MarcAuslander on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @06:09PM

MarcAuslander writes "LinkedIn Wednesday confirmed that at least some passwords compromised in a major security breach correspond to LinkedIn accounts."
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+ - When backups and redundancy fail-> 0

Submitted by MarcAuslander on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @11:39AM

MarcAuslander writes "dslreports, a forum site covering ISP's and Cable, has lost its web site. A summary of how this happened is at http://www.dslreports.com/shutdown.html. All the backups and raid in the world don't help if you are not set up to recover from failures. And after a failure happens it's too late to start practicing."
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+ - What do WiFi signal looks like?-> 0

Submitted by MarcAuslander on Monday April 16, 2012 @08:33AM

MarcAuslander writes "Have you ever wondered what the WiFi signal looks like around your office, school, or local café? In this video, Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen, and Einar Sneve Martinussen show you the invisible. And they pulled this off by building a WiFi measuring rod, measuring four meters in length, that can visualize WiFi signals around Oslo, Norway with the help of long exposure photography."
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+ - Why Phishing stays alive and well. 0

Submitted by MarcAuslander on Friday February 24, 2012 @11:10AM

MarcAuslander writes "I just got an email from paypal. Yes, it's really from paypal. And it tells me to click on an embedded link and log in! The link is legitimate. What are they trying to teach me?

"PayPal recently posted a new Policy Update. You can view this Policy Update by logging in to your PayPal account. To log in to your account, go to https://www.paypal.com/ and enter your member log in information. Once you are logged in, look at the Notifications section on the top right side of the page for the latest Policy Updates.""