Curiosity in Practice
By default iOS 8 allows Siri to bypass your iphone’s lock screen and reply to messages by default. You should disable it. Here is how: Go to Settings Go to Touch ID & Passcode Turn off everything in “Allow Access When Locked”.
Twitter added a photo tagging feature today and like Facebook decided to have the default setting to allow anyone to tag you. For your own saftey you should change it to this: The steps to do this are easy: 1) Login to Twitter.com 2) Go to the Settings tab.3) Go to the Security tab.4) Under … Read more
First off I must admit one of my all time favorite movies is bloodsport. I was watching it recently and it struck me that I have seen this Dim Mak scene play out at countless infosec cons: No, I haven’t seen anyone break a brick with a secret move at an underground martial arts tournament … Read more
I have been asking my son for the last month what he wants Santa to bring him for Christmas. After many discussions and a huge list I had to tell him Santa only takes list of 5 items or less and that he would have to figure out what he really wanted. It got me … Read more
From time to time I get called by small organizations, law firms and companies in my local area to do some consulting on security issues. Yesterday afternoon <redacted organization> called me and told me they were getting this pop up on one of their computers: That pop-up is known as CryptoLocker and once your machine … Read more