Facebook says it got hit by the same Java-based watering hole attack that already caught Twitter, Apple, and Microsoft, plus some thoughts on why dashcams turned out to be the internet's accidental meteor-watching network today.
Twitter's breach, another emergency Flash patch, and a cybersecurity executive order all landed in the same two weeks — notes on a bad stretch for basic security hygiene.
The NYT's Apple wrist-device rumor has everyone drawing iWatch mockups, but after a month with a Pebble I'm not convinced anyone's cracked the wrist-computer problem yet.
Adobe rushed out a Flash patch for two zero-days last week, and it's got me back on my soapbox about just turning click-to-play on and never looking back.
Michael Dell's $24.4 billion deal to take Dell private isn't a turnaround plan, it's a way to manage a decline out of the public eye. Some notes from someone who grew up on a Dell tower.
A last-minute reminder to patch a nasty Flash Player zero-day, plus a tangent on the Oreo Super Bowl blackout tweet and a House of Cards binge that ate a Friday night.
Adobe rushed out an emergency Flash Player patch for two zero-days already being exploited in the wild, and I've got some things to say about Flash, update dialogs, and pre-checked McAfee checkboxes.
Two days after the Super Bowl blackout, Oreo's fifteen-minute "dunk in the dark" tweet is still all anyone's talking about, and I think it says more about staffing than it does about jokes.
Twitter reset my password after disclosing a breach affecting ~250,000 accounts, which got me thinking about Java, the NYT's Chinese hacker story, and a rough week for infrastructure in general.
The Super Bowl blackout lasted 34 minutes and Oreo's "dunk in the dark" tweet won the internet — but the real story is the war room behind it, not the joke.
Twitter reset around 250,000 passwords after a breach this week, which finally got me to stop reusing the same password everywhere.
I downloaded Vine the night after it launched and spent way too long trying to film my dog. Some early, mixed impressions of Twitter's new six-second video app.
