I managed to activate the new 2-step verification for my Google Account. The setup takes up to 15 minutes. And they aren’t lying about that. It is quite long and different things are changed or printed out. I’ve taken some screenshots for you to check it out: At the end, you need to define passwords […]
Continue ReadingMy New Job: Security Analyst
My name is Corsin Camichel and I am working for Compass Security AG. The views expressed on this blog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Everything here, though, is my personal opinion and is not read or approved before it is posted. No warranties or other guarantees will […]
Continue ReadingInternet Storm Center lists suspiciuos .ch Domains
Update December 10th: SWITCH has asked if I could link to their press release from a couple of weeks. Just one note on that: In the Wikileaks.ch press statement, SWITCH states that “a domain name is not the same as a website” and that SWITCH is not responsible for the content of any .ch or […]
Continue Readingqq829.com – A Quick Investigation
For a couple of days, I see strange referrers to this blog. Some visitors are arriving from a qq829.com/web_stat.asp?dn=URL. On that website you see nothing special. Just an image that looks like a tracking icon. If you check the source code of the page you will see, that this icon is included with a Javascript […]
Continue ReadingPerfect Online Backup Strategy
For over 15 months I am using BackBlaze as an online backup system. Once installed and configured, it automatically backs up all my data in the background. No matter how many files or how large your backup is, everything is safe. BackBlaze currently backs up 38 GB of data in 634’244 files for me. Now […]
Continue ReadingAnti-WordPress-Hacking Suggestions
After the recent discussion about the hacks that are used to break into blogs with the WordPress software, I came up with a few ideas on how to make WordPress more secure. More security for adding administrators First of all I really would like to have a method in WordPress that sends an administrator an […]
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