Security

An introduction to supply chain attacks

On March 28 Andres Freund discovered malicious code in the XZ Utils package that could have compromised the security of around half the servers on the internet.

Doing secure offline machine translation with macOS

Machine translation has come a long way since researchers figured out that it was better to translate phrases than individual words.

A security alternative to giving online services your personally identifiable information

You’re probably familiar with the social media memes that try to elicit password reminders from you to access your accounts.

Fostering security awareness

Today’s article is based on a presentation I gave at a security conference in the 2010s.

Changing email provider in the age of 2FA

Changing email provider is simple, right? Wrong. After the week I’ve had, I think there’s an argument that you should be able to transfer your email address to another provider, just like you can with a cell number.