After the Anthem breach, the Stanford cybersecurity summit, and Kaspersky's hard-drive-firmware bombshell, I finally sat down and set up a real password manager. Here's what that Saturday actually looked like.
How I turned Sunday's Left Shark moment into a clean GIF using ffmpeg instead of Photoshop, plus my actual opinion on which shark was funnier.
A walkthrough of patching the GHOST glibc vulnerability on a self-hosted VPS, plus some grumbling about rebooting a server with 400 days of uptime.
A walkthrough of running the Windows 10 Technical Preview in a VirtualBox VM without risking your main machine, plus some honest notes on where build 9879 still falls short.
A first real-world test of Apple Pay on Cyber Monday, including the one store where it flat-out refused to work, and why.
A weekend chore I put off for a week and a half: patching SSLv3 out of this blog's nginx config after the POODLE disclosure, with the actual lines I changed.
A quick, practical walkthrough for disabling SSLv3 on Apache and Nginx after this week's POODLE disclosure, plus a small rant about 2014's parade of protocol bugs.
Google's security team disclosed the POODLE SSLv3 vulnerability this week, and it cost me an evening patching nginx. Here's the one-line fix and why the browser vendors' response matters more than yours.
Google's POODLE disclosure means it's time to kill SSLv3 on your servers — here's the quick Apache and nginx fix, plus why 2014 has felt like one long string of vulnerability patches.
Notes from running Microsoft's brand-new Windows 10 Technical Preview inside a VirtualBox VM instead of risking a real machine, plus a stray thought about this week's Nobel Prize for blue LEDs.
A weekend spent patching three servers for Shellshock, one shared host that wasn't patched yet, and a small aside about Apple's iOS 8.0.1 disaster.
Skipping the iPhone launch-day lines to deal with the actually annoying tech story of the week: getting that unrequested U2 album off my phone for good.
