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My friend recently received a suspicious email for an iTunes gift card purchase from “Apple Store” with a header that displayed a fake “To:” address for orders@apple-store.com.
Unsurprisingly, this turned out to be a phish… Continue reading How did this email list a fake recipient?
Both the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed on January 3, 2018. (6 days ahead of the originally planned January 9).
Since their public reveal, there has been some confusion between the two vulnerab… Continue reading Why were Meltdown and Spectre disclosed at the same time?
While categorizing my accounts in LastPass, I had a dumb thought cross my mind.
Can I store my LastPass password in LastPass?
Initially I thought this would be a completely pointless thought experiment. There’s no way you could actually … Continue reading Is storing my LastPass password in LastPass a security risk?
After installing Firefox 54.0.1 on my work laptop, the first page I see warns me that “Your connection is not secure” when opening https://www.mozilla.org/.
“The owner of Firefox has configured their website improperly”
After browsing a… Continue reading Why is Firefox (and only Firefox) reporting that my connection is insecure on multiple sites?
This question already has an answer here:
Is it common practice for companies to MITM HTTPS traffic?
3 answers
I want to share information and screenshots of my SSL certificate to help identify a potential security issue.
The potential security issue involves private company-owned computers which list my employer as the Certificate A… Continue reading What parts of an SSL Certificate can I share without revealing the Certificate Authority’s identity?
Earlier today, Lone Learner asked Why is there no certificate error while visiting google.net although it presents a certificate issued to google.com?
The accepted answer from StackzOfZtuff explained that it was caused by an… Continue reading What is an SNI Hole?
Earlier today, Lone Learner asked Why is there no certificate error while visiting google.net although it presents a certificate issued to google.com?
The accepted answer explains that the issue was caused by an SNI Hole.
I regularly use Wayback Machine to help find archived versions of webpages that have been taken down or are other otherwise unavailable.
While using the site, I noticed a peculiar warning in Google Chrome’s address bar.
I recently had one of my accounts compromised after falling victim to an online phishing scam. To make matters worse, while I’ve used unique passwords for any account created in the past few years, my 14 year-old self made th… Continue reading How to reset account passwords after falling victim to password reuse?