Posts Tagged ‘security’
This morning, when I logged on to Twitter, I saw a user who I didn’t recognise tweeting away in my timeline.
I wracked my brains thinking about how they could have gotten in there before I realised it was a long-dormant friend who had changed their name and avatar.
But, in thinking about how a spammer could …
Twitter have announced that all third party site will have to use OAuth. You will no longer be able to just type in your username and password to get access to Twitter via your favourite web client.
Usually, I would be a big fan of this move – especially if it forces password anti-pattern sites like …
I’m a big fan of OAuth – despite some claims to the contrary. It’s an excellent way of teaching people not to stick their username and password into any old site which asks for it. Which is why I’m so incredibly disappointed in Twitter’s implementation of mobile OAuth.
For a service which started out …
Twitter has a gaping security hole. Changing your password won’t stop malicious users logging in as you!
I received a rather worrying email from Twitter. Apparently they thought my password had been compromised and needed to be reset.
After checking to see if it was valid, I went and changed my password. Any site which relied on …
Monitoring your home or business used to mean having an array of unsightly camera feeding grainy, washed out pictures into a row of VHS machines. In recent years we’ve seen the move to digital pictures, infra-red beams for night vision and, most recently, viewing over the Internet.
What’s the next logical step? Viewing on your mobile, …
