Security & Privacy

California’s GDPR-Lite Bill is Signed Into law

29 June, 2018 // 1 Comment

California just passed a law that is going to cause a lot of binge-drinking (and possibly mass resignations) at US tech companies in the near future. Assembly Bill AB-375, appropriately referred [Read More ...]

Sentiment Analysis Could One Day Tell Authors How Readers Feel About a Story

20 February, 2018 // 2 Comments

There are ebook analytics startups like Jellybooks that can tell publishers how members of a focus group are using an ebook - which pages are the most popular, how far each test subject got before [Read More ...]

The HTTPocalypse was Postponed, But It’s Still On its Way

10 February, 2018 // 6 Comments

Back in July and August of 2017 Google started telling everyone that Chrome would soon start warning users any time they visit a site enter a form on a page that doesn’t use HTTPS encryption. The [Read More ...]

Far Too Many People Are Still Using “Password” as a Password

19 December, 2017 // 9 Comments

Passwords are both the most discussed security measure and the least secure. Motherboard reports that a study of passwords leaked over the past year show that many users are recycling the same bad [Read More ...]

Guest Post: How Websites Watch Your Every Move and Ignore Privacy Settings

27 November, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hundreds of the world’s top websites routinely track a user’s every keystroke, mouse movement and input into a web form – even before it’s submitted or later abandoned, according to [Read More ...]

Offering Bitcoin Rewards for Turning in eBook Pirates, and Other Bad Ideas

14 September, 2017 // 14 Comments

Bitcoin and blockchain are the hot new buzzwords in tech, so much so that it is easy to find a double dozen startup using blockchains for the most ridiculous reasons. (For example, Binded/Blockai [Read More ...]

Running a WordPress Site? Go Update the Software RIGHT NOW

10 February, 2017 // 3 Comments

Security researchers at Wordfence reported on Friday that almost 2 million WordPress sites have been hacked and defaced in a recent series of hacking campaigns. The hacks are coming from a couple [Read More ...]

W3C Wants to Let Tech Companies Muzzle Researchers With Legal Threats

9 February, 2017 // 1 Comment

The W3C (the organization now responsible for developing the Epub standard) has taken the position that researchers should have to get a company's permission before revealing security flaws or [Read More ...]

Security Hole Discovered in Amazon, Apple, Google eBook Portals

28 January, 2017 // 0 Comments

A security researcher revealed this week that Amazon and other ebook retailers had neglected to patch a fifteen-year-old XML security flaw. From The Register: The similar but separate XML external [Read More ...]

No, Encryption Will Not Protect Digital Cameras, or Photographers

15 December, 2016 // 21 Comments

Techdirt brings us the news that the Freedom of the Press Foundation wants camera makers to build encryption into their products. Encryption has become one of the key issues in the digital world [Read More ...]

Hackers Are Using MailChimp to Spread Malware – Is Your Account Secure?

23 November, 2016 // 0 Comments

Today we had a graphic lesson in why one should always use a complex password with online services. MailChimp is one of the more popular mailing list services. I use it when building author websites, [Read More ...]

Opera Max Now Blocks Tracking Scripts, Encrypts Your Mobile Data

7 October, 2016 // 0 Comments

When Opera launched Opera Max in 2013, it was designed to compress data over mobile connections and save users money on their data plans. Last May Opera expanded support to include compressing data [Read More ...]

Multiple BlueHost Clients Hit With False (?) Reports of Malware

28 September, 2016 // 3 Comments

If you have a site hosted on Bluehost, you might want to take a few minutes today and double check your site's health and security. Over the past week I have heard from a client (and a friend) who [Read More ...]

Updated: Amazon (Denies It) Has Been Hacked, and Details on 84,000 Kindle Account May Have Been Stolen

12 July, 2016 // 4 Comments

A story came out late last week which, if true, represents a serious breach of Amazon's security. Edit: As I noted at the end of this post, Amazon has denied the story. Mic reported on Friday that a [Read More ...]

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