Skip to main content

The WiKID Blog

The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.

et-tu-wahoo

Fresh from my visit for my 20th Reunion, my alma mater has disclosed a database breach resulting in the loss of faculty personal information.

moved-the-webserver-to-amazon-ec2-is-is-faster

We've moved our web-server to the cloud. We're getting more traffic and we've been using more bandwidth for development, so we decided to move the server to Amazon's EC2. This may be temporary depending on how it holds up. It's a little disconcerting to have your website out there in the ether.

error-message-your-password-must-be-at-least-18770

Ouch

educational-security-incidents-year-in-review

The Educational Security Incidents Year in Review - 2007 is out. As Adam points out, not everyone cares that incidents were up 67.5%. I'm not sure that I would either - the total number of incidents was 139, which seems small relative to the number of colleges and universities out there. My guess is that the incidents have to make it to the news. Perhaps incidents are becoming less news-worthy.

more-on-the-nsa-wiretaps-fro-m-the-national

The National Journal has an interesting update on the technology used in the NSA wiretaps.

Recent Posts

Archive

2024
2022
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008

Categories

Tags

Authors

Feeds

RSS / Atom