It seems almost ironic that just the other day I was ranting about Tesco’s seemingly mediocre approach to password security, and today we hear that Tesco online store ‘is infiltrated by insider card fraudster’.
Customers shopping at Britain’s biggest Internet store — Tesco Direct — are feared to have had their card details stolen by a [...]
November 24th, 07
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Posted by Jem at 19:24 GMT
I’ve become increasingly aware of passwords recently. Actually, that probably sounds like a stupid statement because everyone is aware of passwords. What I mean is, I’m becoming aware on just how useless they can be in the wrong hands.
A couple of weeks ago I wanted to order some new bedding, a fairly harmless task in [...]
November 21st, 07
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Posted by Jem at 21:06 GMT
Usually if I don’t have the time to review a script I advise people to Google for security issues. Except, with the recent problem surrounding the false reports of a login issue with my scripts, it’s becoming more and more apparent that we can’t rely on only Google. Amongst good advice (of which there is [...]
August 4th, 07
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Posted by Jem at 21:03 GMT
Some little asswipe sent in a vulnerability report to securityfocus.com (the same site Amelie had faux report problems with; which just happens to mirror to thousands of blogs and security websites across the Internet) claiming that there’s a login issue in BellaBiblio and BellaBook/BellaBuffs (he couldn’t make his mind up with that one) making them [...]
August 1st, 07
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Posted by Jem at 21:00 GMT
One of the biggest problems with being an arrogant sod is that sometimes I get over-confident and cocky. This becomes a particularly bad habit when I’m using that cockiness to inform other people; highlighted just this week by my script ‘analysis’ of LittleWallOButtons.
Unless I’m particularly unsure about whether or not I could be wrong, I [...]
June 20th, 07
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Posted by Jem at 17:27 GMT