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How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

Wow. Some important lessons here on computer account security, for users and more importantly for service providers. The Twitter name isn’t the scary part…it’s that it was way too easy for the attacker to gain control of the domain name, email and web hosting with just a pair of phone calls.

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

A story of how PayPal and GoDaddy allowed the attack and caused me to lose my $50,000 Twitter username.

Responsive Design Won’t Fix Your Content Problem

More on Responsive Design. It’s a great way (probably the ideal way) to make your site work across devices. But you still need to tailor your content, too. They’re complementary approaches.

Responsive Design Won’t Fix Your Content Problem

For years, we’ve told clients to serve the same content to every platform. We explained that Responsive Web Design allows content to squish itself into any container. Is it any wonder, then, that the…

Responsive Design Won’t Hurt Your SEO

I love how responsive design is seen as this new idea, allowing your website to adjust to different display sizes and types… when it was one of the original design principles of the web.

Google’s Matt Cutts: Responsive Design Won’t Hurt Your SEO

There are fewer SEO drawbacks when using responsive design versus a lightweight mobile version, but a mobile site can work just as well as responsive design, as long as you avoid dividing your PageRank…

Waterworld: The Right Way to Think About the Battles in Mobile

An interesting metaphor, and it certainly fits with the way I’ve looked at Google, Amazon, and Apple’s strategies.

Waterworld: The Right Way to Think About the Battles in Mobile

Here’s the frame that I use: Apple sells systems. Google sells services. Amazon sells content. Microsoft, in general, sells software, although that’s changing now.

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Adobe Breach Impacted At Least 38 Million Users

The Adobe security breach announced a month ago turns out to be worse than previously thought.

Adobe Breach Impacted At Least 38 Million Users — Krebs on Security

The recent data breach at Adobe that exposed user account information and prompted a flurry of password reset emails impacted at least 38 million users, the company now says. It also appears that the…

PHP.net compromise aftermath: Why Code Signing Beats Hashes

If someone can change the download page, they can change the hash too. If you sign the code with a secret key, they have to steal your key too — and you should be keeping that off of your web server.

ISC Diary | PHP.net compromise aftermath: Why Code Signing Beats Hashes

PHP.net compromise aftermath: Why Code Signing Beats Hashes, Author: Johannes Ullrich

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The Things You Must Not Tell Anyone At Work (Or should you?)

For some medical conditions, telling the people around you is actually a safety concern. I’ve got severe food allergies. I can’t join coworkers for Thai food. If an event is catered, I need it to include something I can eat, and I need to be able to trust that my coworkers aren’t mixing up the food I can’t eat with the food I can. If I go into anaphylactic shock, it would be helpful if someone knew what to do while waiting for the paramedics to arrive. I certainly don’t make it the subject of every conversation, but when food is involved, it comes up…and frankly, it *has* to.

Warning! The Things You Must Not Tell Anyone At Work

There are some things we shouldn’t tell anyone at work. Sharing the ‘wrong’ things with co-workers can quickly backfire and leave us exposed, vulnerable or side-lined.

ISC Diary | Is “Reputation Backscatter” a Thing?

Any time you move email services to a new network with a new IP address, you need check out the IP’s reputation before switching over, just in case it used to be run by a spammer.

ISC Diary | Is “Reputation Backscatter” a Thing?

I recently migrated a client from a 10mbps internet uplink to a new 100mbps uplink with a wireless 10mbps backup.  As part of this, they of course got new IP addresses.

Moving Seasonal Businesses to the Cloud

It’s sort of an ad for the particular provider, but it makes a good point: If your computing needs fluctuate significantly (by season, by time of day, by event, etc.), it’s better to have a system that will adjust to changing demand instead of wasting resources (and money) by always running at maximum capacity.On a small scale, that might be adding/subtracting memory from a VPS. On a larger scale, it might be creating extra servers as they’re needed and letting them vanish when they aren’t.

Moving Seasonal Businesses to the Cloud

This article presents a case study on how seasonal businesses can leverage and gain advantage by using cloud technology.