Terry Zink: Security Talk
Discussing Internet security in (mostly) plain English
Keeping my email address private
Last year, in response to the rising costs of owning property, I joined the board of my homeowner’s...
Author: tzink Date: 05/19/2011
Totally secure security – but who wants to live like bin Laden?
I recently read a story in the Associated Press about how Osama bin Laden was able to stay off the...
Author: tzink Date: 05/17/2011
Facebook vs Google – the pot calling the kettle black
In case you missed it a few days, a story broke that said that Facebook was caught hiring a PR firm...
Author: tzink Date: 05/17/2011
How did we all get to be where we are today? The story of guns, germs and steel – Part 3
This is my third post that has nothing to do with cyber security or antimalware. I enjoy...
Author: tzink Date: 05/11/2011
How did we all get to be where we are today? The story of guns, germs and steel – Part 2
In my previous post, I explained that the reason that Europeans conquered the rest of the world, and...
Author: tzink Date: 05/11/2011
Ontario woman sues Sony over data breach
2011 is turning into the year of the security breach. We can’t go two weeks without an organization...
Author: tzink Date: 05/05/2011
Fake bin Laden videos and who’s checking you out on Facebook?
In the past couple of days on Facebook, a couple of my friends have fallen for scams on Facebook –...
Author: tzink Date: 05/05/2011
Password policies need to be the same if we want users to take our advice
The other day on Facebook, one of my friends mentioned that today (i.e., that day) was a good day to...
Author: tzink Date: 04/29/2011
IE9 performing better than Google Chrome at catching malware
Over at ZD Net, contributor Ed Bott writes about an experiment he conducted between Internet...
Author: tzink Date: 04/26/2011
Son of computer security expert kidnapped, ransom demanded
Here’s a couple of short, interesting articles. The 20-year old son of the founder of security...
Author: tzink Date: 04/26/2011
ESP compromises and their lack of security
Over at Word to the Wise, Laura Atkins has a post up where she talks about the real problem with...
Author: tzink Date: 04/06/2011
Rustock – a take down that worked but still part of a larger problem of botnets
I came across this video on Youtube today, a collaborative video between WorldBusiness and...
Author: tzink Date: 04/06/2011
My girlfriend’s Gmail account was hacked
I’ve written in the past that my Hotmail account has been hacked twice. I think it was either...
Author: tzink Date: 04/05/2011
How to check that your browser is up-to-date
Finally, at long last, there is an easy way to check to see if your Internet browser is up-to-date...
Author: tzink Date: 04/04/2011
Who has taken over as the most prolific botnet since Rustock was taken down?
Over at the site V3.co.uk, they have an article up today alleging that since the Rustock takedown...
Author: tzink Date: 03/29/2011
My writing skills need improvement. Seriously.
Ever since I published my first post on evaluating talent a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been...
Author: tzink Date: 03/28/2011
Getting rid of legacy stuff is hard
Microsoft recently released it latest version of Internet Explorer, IE9. I’ve been running the...
Author: tzink Date: 03/25/2011
Digging through the problem of IPv6 and email, part 3
IPv6 changes things up because there are 128-bits in an IP address. Here’s an example from...
Author: tzink Date: 03/22/2011
Digging through the problem of IPv6 and email, part 2
IPv6 multiplies this problem. We have seen that spammers already possess the ability to hop around...
Author: tzink Date: 03/22/2011
Digging through the problem of IPv6 and email, part 1
Recently, a couple of anti-spam (or at least email security related) bloggers have written some...
Author: tzink Date: 03/22/2011
Microsoft took down Rustock - My own company is going to put me out of a job!
It’s all over the Internet today but as it turns out, the ones who were largely responsible for...
Author: tzink Date: 03/18/2011
Rustock goes down (again); if this keeps occurring I’ll be out of a job
If you haven’t heard it yet, Rustock, the world’s biggest botnet, stopped sending spam yesterday,...
Author: tzink Date: 03/17/2011
Black SEO?
I did a Bing search for Office 365 which I used in my previous post. Along the sidebar I saw...
Author: tzink Date: 03/09/2011
If you get additional spam this week, it’s not my fault
If you get some additional spam this week, it’s not my fault. Even though I did go snowshoeing...
Author: tzink Date: 02/21/2011
Foreign hackers attack Canadian government
From CBC News: An unprecedented cyberattack on the Canadian government also targeted Defence...
Author: tzink Date: 02/18/2011
ID fraud is dropping
Reuters has a good story today on the rate of recorded incidents of ID fraud: Thanks to signs of a...
Author: tzink Date: 02/09/2011
No Facebook friends for Obama girls
The Asssociated Press has an article today on the First Lady’s position on Facebook for her family...
Author: tzink Date: 02/09/2011
Zuckerberg vs Assange, part 2
Continuing on from my previous post on the Time Person of the Year award, having taken a look at...
Author: tzink Date: 02/04/2011
Humor - How to write good code
Via xkcd.
Author: tzink Date: 02/03/2011
I’m still around
I haven’t written any posts in a while, but I am still around. I’m just taking a break. ...
Author: tzink Date: 01/12/2011
The Dot Cons
I came across this video a couple of weeks ago and it is very entertaining. I thought that I...
Author: tzink Date: 12/31/2010
Google’s Priority Inbox feature
I must confess, I rarely use any of the Gmail features that are advertised as being really great....
Author: tzink Date: 12/30/2010
Nice work if you can get it
The Associated Press has run a story today about an anti-spam crusader by the name of Daniel Balsam...
Author: tzink Date: 12/27/2010
Even more humor
Sent to me from a reader, via XKCD.
Author: tzink Date: 12/24/2010
Microsoft Security Essentials – version 2
Microsoft has released its next edition of its Security Essentials tool. From InformationWeek:...
Author: tzink Date: 12/21/2010