So you’ve just provisioned your shiny new OS instance with your host of choice, loaded in your confidential data and away you go without a worry in the world right? If your data consists only of captioned photos of cute furry animals, then all is well. Perhaps however, your data is worth just a wee bit […]
We just moved office last week to much larger premises! Whilst our office building already has excellent security as it houses a credit union, an additional security layer for our office floor can’t hurt (this is unrelated to our servers; they are housed in the secure Global Switch data centre). Now sure, we could easily […]
Large scale shared hosting with an out-of-the-box install of apache and PHP is a recipe for security-disaster; this is not news. The solution is to run each website’s code separately so they can’t affect each other. This is pretty common nowadays but it wasn’t always the case with many providers. Anchor’s been doing this for […]
Remember the good old days, when Melissa and ILOVEYOU were the major virus threats, spreading via e-mail and causing all sorts of embarrassing conversations at work? Or maybe even earlier than that, when the only way you could get a virus was by engaging in risky sex? (I mean Software EXchange, of course… get your […]
We’ve already got solid advice on picking half decent passwords, but this advice from Zebra really takes the cake.
I really like cryptography and security. I was lucky enough to take it as a subject at UNSW before I graduated. I found this earlier this evening; it’s a little old (~18 months), but that doesn’t make it any less relevant, so it’s a good read. There’s the odd inaccuracy here and there, but it’s […]
I was setting up mysql-server for a customer recently and noticed something interesting – there’s a helpful script included with mysql called mysql_secure_installation. We thought about that for a moment and had a chuckle. Okay, that was a little unfair; it’s no secret that we prefer to use Postgres wherever possible, but the idea of […]
We’ve had some enquiries from customers recently regarding security compliance scans, the most popular of which is the PCI DSS. For those not in the know, this stands for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It is of course a fascinating topic, covering best-practice standards for processing and storage of customer information. The enquiries […]
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