Backups are hard, and you never need them until you really need them. Suffice to say, a backup isn’t a backup until you’ve restored one either! Damian goes to great lengths to help others benefit from his own personal backup strategy. What’s yours? Folding Air, Software Development With Damian Stanger: Personal Backup strategies.
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How Hezbollah tracked down a CIA spy ring
A nice run down into how Hezbollah rolled up a CIA spy ring in Lebanon in late 2011. The adversary, Hezbollah, used access to the telephone company logs they have those, and searched for atypical mobile phone usage patterns: phones that only receive a few calls / messages over long periods of time mobile phones…
Cookies are bad for you
Most web applications today use browser cookies to keep a user logged in while she is using the application. Cookies are a decades-old device and they do not stand up well to security threats that have emerged on the modern web. In particular, cookies are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery. Web applications can by made more…
Five Best VPN Service Providers
Five Best VPN Service Providers Some good suggestions from Lifehacker on good VPN providers. Can anyone suggest a good VPN provider that allows you to switch between UK and US? I want BBC iPlayer and Hulu! Photo Credit: privacy by Sean MacEntee, on Flickr