<p>I may have mentioned this before - I do run my own virtual servers for important services (basically email and my web presence). I do this mostly for historic reasons and also because I’m not a huge fan of using centralised services for all of the above. The downside is that you pretty much have to learn at least about basic security. Over the 20+ years I’ve been doing this, the Internet hasn’t exactly become a less hostile place. Anyway, Elliptic Curve Certificates, what…
<p>As an IT consultant, I travel a lot. I mean, <em>a lot</em>. Part of the pleasure is having to deal with day-to-day online life on open, potentially free-for-all hotel and conference WiFi. In other words, the type of networks you really want to do your online banking, ecommerce and other potentially sensitive operations on. After seeing one too many ads for VPN services on bad late night TV I finally decided I needed to do something about it. Ideally I intended to this on the cheap and learn…
<p>Emacs 25.3 has been <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-09/msg00006.html">released</a> on Monday. Given that it’s a security fix I’m downloading the source as I write this. If you’re using the latest Emacs I’d recommend you update your Emacs. The vulnerability as been around since Emacs 19.29, you probably want to upgrade anyway.</p>
<p>I <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/08/05/smartphones-computers-need-regular-patching/">recently</a> blogged about Google and Samsung starting to offer regular security patches for their Android devices.</p>
<p>Some security researchers from UCSD <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/08/hackers-cut-corvettes-brakes-via-common-car-gadget/">showed a proof of concept exploit via one of the dongles</a> that appears to be also used by car insurance companies to monitor your driving “to give you discounts for good driving”. I’m not really a fully paid up subscriber of the tin foil hat brigade but stuff like this makes me glad that I’m still opting for the old-fashioned way of paying…
