I have been in a serious relationship for more than 12 years. My partner in this relationship has brought me joy through the years, but lately, I feel like I’m giving to this relationship far more than I’m getting out of it. The relationship no longer brings me the joy that it once did, and has suffered from several breaches…
It has been almost impossible to avoid reading about the numerous large-scale data breaches reported on a seemingly daily basis. Stories of bad actors getting their hands on personal data are terrifying and always result in bad press for the breached company. However, not all data exposure scenarios make the news, and many can go unnoticed or unreported for years. Data leaks…
Over the weekend I got an email from have i been pwned, a website that tracks data breaches and notifies users whose information may have been compromised. The notification I received reported that my email may have been among some 4.9 million accounts whose information was compromised sometime in December of 2015. The email from HIBP indicated that the owner…
Dear vendor: If you’re reading this, we have done business together, either directly or indirectly. You might be a retail website from which I purchase products or services. You could be a social media empire on which I share blog posts, life events, and photos of my meals. You may be a physician’s office I visited 15 years ago. You…
For some reason, today I came across at least a half-dozen blog posts and articles about how to avoid SQL injection attacks. It had been a while since I had read about SQL injections, and an odd thought comes to mind: Why is SQL injection still an issue? This is such an easy problem to get around. The use of…