Gordon's Notes

So this has been happening. Every few days for the past few weeks I have received an email from Vanguard like this: Of course it'...

How the heck did I miss this? Why wasn’t it all over my feeds? It’s sad Google actually had write a paper to prove the self-evident, but I g...

This showed up in my email. What’s wrong with it? It tells me to click on a link to get started. How do I know this is really a Vanguard...

My corporate US Bank account has a rich set of ' secret questions '... As a security measure this is ' marching morons '...

In the old days I did casual hookups -- of new net accounts and services. Now, of course, every net identity and related service is a secur...

Evernote was hacked , and they mandated a global password reset. It's not surprising Evernote was hacked. As Schneier wrote a few days ...

Java on the Mac is malware by design . It bypasses the entire security infrastructure of OS X. It's worse than Flash, and Flash is plent...

Mat Honan, who is making a career out of being hacked, has a solid profile of a juvenile delinquent hacker [1] -  "Derek", alias C...

Matt Honan was thoroughly hacked, including having his iCloud link computers obliterated [1], because our net security infrastructure is com...

The ailing hippo of SMS texting is under attack . iOS / OS X Message is at its throat, Google Voice SMS is on its back, and now the hyena...

When the NYT's  NYT's Tedeschi admitted to me that he'd missed the boat on iOS Parental Controls I was hoping for a correction ...

I thought of John Halamka was a fairly careful writer, so this comment caught my eye (emphases mine): Life as a Healthcare CIO: The Joy of...

Places .app is one of Google's newer iPhone "social" apps. This is what you see if you try to sign in with a Google 2-step ver...

In the context of a site that claims to check passwords against a published hacker repository [1] Scientific American repeats the NYT's...

It's been a gratifying week for my fellow nimbophobics. Our numbers are growing by leaps and bounds. Consider just four examples ... A...

It's not the best of times. Long Depression 2.0 grinds on . China is increasingly unsettled -- and it's sitting on one of history...

Just one recent example:  Aggressive Social Engineering Against Consumers As we boomers age, there will be a rich supply of weakened herd m...

A marketing (legal spam) firm was hacked and a bunch of our "private" (hah!) information was stolen. We can now expect more person...

Things were bad around 2007. I carried an ancient PalmOS device, an iPod, keys and wallet. I didn't have enough pockets. Post-iPhone I...

Despite all of their security issues, I've never thought credit cards would go away. I figured one day banks would become liable for ide...