Interesting Links for 09-08-2012

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• How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
  The way accounts are often chained together along with security policies designed more around letting stupid people access their stuff after losing their details than keeping out hackers means that wow, you can lose a lot, very quickly. Some or all of the security holes may have been fixed, going by the titles of the related stories at the bottom of the page on this.
  (tags: posttofacebook technology security internet dude... interesting )
• Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist's Devastating Hack | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
  Amazon changed its customer privacy policies on Monday, closing security gaps that were exploited in the identity hacking of Wired reporter Mat Honan on Friday.
  (tags: relates to another of today's links internet hacking security technology interesting )
• Apple Confirms It Has Suspended Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
  (tags: security relates to another of today's links Apple internet technology interesting )
• How Not to Become Mat Honan: A Short Primer on Online Security | Threat Level | Wired.com
  (tags: relates to another of today's links internet advice useful security interesting )

Comments

[tyrell.livejournal.com]

Wow, I hadn't seen the follow-up security changes news before. Very interesting. And bloody scary.

[omniscient-fool.livejournal.com]

I find it interesting how much victim blaming goes on in cases of internet security breach, particularly in this case how Honan has been blaming himself. Yes, of course there are things you can do to risk the likelihood of getting hacked or of losing data if you are, but that's a far cry from it becoming your fault if someone else acts immorally and illegally. If I didn't buy insurance or left my flat unlocked and got burgled I would curse my stupidity, but I would still blame the burgler.