NoCrackingZone | Tag | serious security

Happy Holidays – and big thanks to everyone who’s working today!

Yes. there’s a message in the Christmas tree.

We explain why you really need to RTFM. Even if TFM is very long and complicated and you are very experienced.

The hard disks that fail abruptly at 32,768 hours of use – why simply ‘adding 1’ can send you into oblivion.

Here’s an interesting phishing trick. It’s a way for crooks to get lots of customised web links without doing any programming.

Here’s a way to keep secrets safe in memory, even in a world of hardware-level leakage due to tricks like Rambleed, Spectre and more.

Tales from the honeypot: this time a MySQL-based attack. Old tricks still work, because we’re still making old mistakes – here’s what to do.

What if you got hit by ransomware – but the malware program itself was on the other side of the world where you’d never find it?

Here’s the latest Naked Security podcast – enjoy!

Tomorrow night, the GPS “earth clock” has a Y2K event – but here’s why you should be OK.

Pi Day isn’t just about circles or special numbers – there are some cybersecurity lessons in there, too, and here they are…