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“Security and Privacy” Category

16th Apr 2008 Mid-April Link Dump
Eurovision, comics, JavaScript, cards and more.
25th Mar 2008 Late-March Link Dump
Replies, URLs, comments, security, sci-fi, SPF and caching.
26th Feb 2008 The Downside of Uploads
Another extra burden imposed by IE.
10th Feb 2008 Mid-February Link Dump
Bear, livestock, dog, pony, lemurs and more.
16th Jan 2008 Mid-January Link Dump
Printing, recording, squatting, fighting and more.
13th Nov 2007 PHP preg Pattern Pitfall
Watch out for those trailing newlines.
12th Nov 2007 Mid-November Link Dump
Science, vectors, cows, animation, poultry, comics and more.
21st Sep 2007 Mid-September Link Dump
Karma, fish, evil, dinosaurs, bugs and more.
30th Aug 2007 August Link Dump
Video, newspapers, marketing, ideas, bubbles and more.
24th Aug 2007 DNS Rebinding Nastiness
Zombifying browsers for fun and profit.
28th Jul 2007 Mac Backups With Mozy
Protecting data from fire and burglars.
23rd Jul 2007 Clifford Stoll, The Sceptical Sysadmin
Catching cuckoos and tackling technophilia.
18th Jul 2007 Mid-July Link Dump
Disaster recovery, games, PHP, video, messaging and domain names.
3rd Jul 2007 June Link Dump
Russia, XSS, cartoons, movies, notes, colour and cards.
2nd Jun 2007 May Link Dump
Sickness, security, sound effects and more.
8th Mar 2007 License to Phish
Companies that confuse users are helping fraudsters.
24th Jan 2007 Book Review: Building Scalable Web Sites
Sound advice from Flickr’s architect.
16th Jan 2007 Mid-January Link Dump
A new miscellany for the new year.
28th Dec 2006 End-of-year Link Dump
Using up URLs marked “Best Before End: 2006”.
28th Nov 2006 November Link Dump
Chicks, nukes, prime numbers and more.
7th Nov 2006 Spyware? Yahoo!
Oops.
20th Oct 2006 Vulnerability
Sloppy coding and head-in-the-sand attitudes.
18th Oct 2006 Humble Pie Not On Apple’s Menu
There’s a time and a place for gloating.
15th Sep 2006 Going Phishing With Google
A handy security hole for scammers.
12th Sep 2006 ID
“Don’t you know who I am?”
8th Aug 2006 Spam By Name…
The tinned meat people have an email newsletter.
20th Mar 2006 Pranklets
Far nicer than clingfilm on toilet seats.
6th Mar 2006 How Not To Do An Online Presentation
Softest sell ever.
24th Jan 2006 New Blood For Bloglines
Some additions to my daily reading.
19th Jan 2006 Dimwitted Denial of Service
They just didn’t think it through…
2nd Jan 2006 New Year Link Dump
Clearing out miscellaneous bits’n’pieces.
23rd Nov 2005 Alexa and Your WHOIS Info
Keeping domain registration details off the web.
18th Oct 2005 Mid-October Link Dump
Quickly rustled up from miscellaneous leftovers.
13th Sep 2005 Email Injection Attacks
Got a contact form? Make sure it’s safe.
8th Sep 2005 Even Fewer Popups with Firefox
How to close a popups-from-plugins loophole.
7th Aug 2005 They Know Where You Browse
Browsers expose more data than you might realise.
22nd May 2005 Google Web Accelerator Aftermath
Lessons learned from the publicised problems.
10th May 2005 To Have and to Withhold
Don’t get screwed by the wedding photographer.
23rd Apr 2005 Using Flash’s Local Shared Objects for Good, Not Evil
Add nifty features with Flash’s answer to cookies.
7th Feb 2005 Domain Names: The ‘Evil Twin’ Episode
The foreseen hazards of multilingual URLs.
6th Jan 2005 Anti-Spyware Validationware
Beta release accompanied by Windows validation scheme.
24th Nov 2004 Credit Password
A possible way to help prevent fraudulent credit in your name?
21st Nov 2004 Viral Advertising
Third-party ad server adds malicious code to The Register.
2nd Nov 2004 Gmail Precautions
Keeping your account secure from prying eyes.

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