Major companies like Facebook and Amazon have been using private information – your interests, purchases, age, gender, etc. – to present you with a personalized experience for years. If you share that you like a band on Facebook, you’ll certainly receive ads for that group’s new albums and tour …
Brute force attacks: Hiding login pages vs using a VPN
Brute force attacks are so often that both WordPress and Drupal have pages dedicated to this specific aspect of website security. Two common alternatives for handling these are hiding the login page and using a VPN. Which is safer? How much does each cost? And how much extra time does it take, and …
Authentication: the other feature of HTTPS
Most users are aware that HTTPS is a secure protocol that encrypts their communication with a web server. We rely on HTTPS to ensure that unauthorized parties cannot "snoop" on our conversation with a webserver, for example our bank’s website. But HTTPS helps maintain security in another, lesser …