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How To Do The Impossible

Some advice on how to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals. 1) Recognize that nothing is impossible Understand that nothing is impossible. Unless you are attempting to defy the laws of physics, you can achieve or do anything. Even laws of physics can be defied with enough hard work and passion. Just ask Orville and […]

New WordPress Hack

It looks like yet another hack is making it’s way ’round the Internet. This one seems to be targeting WordPress sites (although it’s unfair to attribute the hack to any WP vulnerability). How do you know if your site has been hacked? Do a site search on your domain. If you see any title tags […]

Stop Using ASAP – Please!

It’s just plain rude. Really, it is. If you don’t have the time or the manners to write out your conveyance for the necessity of haste, I probably won’t take the time to make haste. Why don’t you try: at your earliest convenience without delay urgent/urgently promptly straight away as soon as possible (crazy, I […]

Facebook Application Privacy

Since the last two weeks have been pretty heavy on security research and also since I’ve been getting more involved in Facebook API research; it was only natural that I combined the two and ended up doing some Facebook security research. What I found wasn’t totally surprising to someone in the tech/development space, but may […]

Learning from Adversity

Lemons and lemonade. Earlier I wrote about my website getting hacked and about what I did to fix the situation. This post is about the lessons I took away from the experience and about making the most of a crummy situation. First off let me disclose that I am not a computer security expert. I […]