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Thursday, August 5th, 2010I just got an email from someone, the title of which was “Receipt” and the content of which was “Please click the following link to see the detail of this receipt:” followed by a link.
Wow, that just screams phishing attack to me, how about you?
And yet. And yet, this was a genuine email, with […]
SOUPS 2010: A short report
Monday, July 19th, 2010And so I’m back, though not from outer space; from Redmond, Washington, where I was attending the annual Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security.
This year’s SOUPS was held on the Microsoft campus itself, or at least one of them in the Seattle area (so I’ve been told). And it really is a campus, just […]
Four years of usable security research at SOUPS
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010With the change in my research area, I have also changed my annual conference. I usually attend CSCW, but this year I will be attending the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2010), which will be held in Redmond next month.
One of the hardest things to do when you start doing research in […]
That most annoying of security features: the super-secret question!
Monday, January 4th, 2010The powers-that-be have implemented a new web system for our human resources needs, one that is supposedly more secure. Of course, the first thing it did when I first signed in was demand that I change my password. How very annoying, especially since I had been using the same password since I first signed up […]
ResearchScoreCard
Thursday, December 10th, 2009I was looking for research papers on expertise and I just stumbled upon this interesting-looking website: ResearchScoreCard: Welcome to the Collaboratorium. It says on the main page: “ResearchScorecard is a tool for finding and evaluating biomedical scientists. Our goal: helping you find collaborators the way science is done — rationally.” I like […]
Privacy and Facebook
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Here’s a very useful article on how to set your privacy settings in Facebook.
Sorry, person from whom I got this link, I forgot who you are
Bitten by bank security
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Yesterday I wanted to look at our checking account from work. I try not to do this kind of stuff from work, but I needed to make sure we had enough money to pay for something. And then I ran into a problem with banking security.
See, the banks don’t like it when you try to […]
