A collection of 12 posts
A lot of online sharing services have this convenient feature to share content via an unguessable link. Even if the recipient of the link doesn't have an account for the used service he
Recently I wrote a blog about why password managers are not the best solution for everyone. TL;DR: because they pose a usability barrier for less tech savvy people. Every time I tweet
I saw this tweet from Paul Barton. And he is right. These are really terrible security questions. These have to be some of the worst “security” questions I have ever seen! pic.twitter.
TL;DR:Inventory your user accounts and remove unused onesChange weak and reused passwordsEnable 2FA and make sure you configure backup optionsOnce in a while you should assess the security of your user
Regularly people ask me which password manager to use.Hello @j_opdenakker. Do you foresee to talk about Password Management Apps like @LastPass @dashlane @1Password @KeePass ? Thanks for your blog articles!— Cyrille
This is the second post in the Secure Password management series. Read the previous one here.What's an appropriate minimum password length? When I asked this question on Twitter a while ago most
Most websites are vulnerable to account enumeration, a technique used to discover if a user has an account on a website. The most common features on websites for which there is an account
Public mailboxes are very handy. I use Mailinator regularly. But there are many, many more of them and they all work pretty much on the same premise. In this short write-up I will
This is TaxHug, a site where the Irish can claim tax refunds.There couldn’t be much more irony on 1 webpage. This self-proclaimed “100% Secure” website is served over the insecure HTTP
URL shortening is a way to make a URL substantially shorter and still direct to the required page.www.google.com will look like this when shortened by using bit.ly:https://bit.
Earlier this week Australian security researcher Troy Hunt loaded 711 million breached accounts in Have I Been Pwned. For people that don’t know it, Have I Been Pwned is a search engine
Many people have the perception that website security and good user experience can’t go hand in hand. It’s true that certain security measures affect user experience and there will always be