Tag Archives: security

My Family Name Domain and the Multilingual Ransomware Scam

By | May 12, 2025

I own my family name as an internet domain with several country codes. It’s not every day you get to claim your heritage in the digital world like that. However, this seemingly harmless act has turned me into an unexpected recipient of a rather peculiar type of email: the multilingual ransomware scam. My inbox, normally… Read More »

#Firefox took a wrong time-zone when resistFingerprinting is on

By | March 17, 2025

Some websites require to obtain the time-zone from the client browser in order to correctly display some information. This is not always critical but in case you are using some web hosted e-mail or calendar account this is important. One day I noticed that suddenly all my tutanota.com mail calendar events were completely off by… Read More »

Security: Maintaining a secure WordPress blog

By | November 11, 2016

I already have several posts related to security of an exposed Internet site. They were all summarized in the post Blog Links: Web site security As we know, the Internet threats are constant and evolving so to maintain the same level of security we constantly have to update the configurations of a secure installation. In… Read More »

Internet: Subresource Integrity (SRI)

By | February 9, 2017

Yes our friends from China invented a new type of DDOS attack. The great firewall changed unencrypted traffic that contained 3rd party javascript libraries to DDOS GitHub. There is already a testing tool SRI Test developed and deployed by Gabor Szathmari see for more details his blog To protect my blog I found out that… Read More »

“A” Rating Security – Strong SSL Security WordPress Blog

By | May 26, 2017

This should have been one of the first posts of this blog, because deals with the actual setup of the blog. To install a secure Blog is not an easy task. You can take the easy route and host your blog on a blogging site and hope that they will do a good pro bono… Read More »