Posts by monty75

Brian Krebs criticises PayPal’s security as authentication flaws exposed

Worse for us

As far as I can figure out, Paypal's 2FA offering for the UK is a code sent by SMS. If you don't have your phone to hand, or can't be arsed to look at it, you can bypass the whole process by answering two security questions. It's always the same two questions. So, one person peering over your shoulder, a keylogger or just someone who's able to do some basic research to find your mum's maiden name and your 2FA becomes sweet FA.

Ofcom spins out Wi-Fi checker app just in time for Christmas

Re: What mobile app?

Look in the Apple or Google appstores.

TalkTalk incident management: A timeline

D'oh the irony!

Currently on TalkTalk's homepage is this AOL article:

"Protect yourself from phone scams

Hackers could not access enough information to take cash from bank accounts. Don't get tricked into giving your details over the telephone"

El Reg celebrates Back to the Future Day

Apparently VW have been cheating on the Mr Fusion nuclear emission tests.

Erm, you might want to wipe the browsing history on these glasses before you let mom use them.

+1 for knowing where your towel is.

Yeah, I bought it by fax from Amazon.

WordPress blogger patch foot-drag nag: You're tempting hackers

Wordfence is your friend. It should be installed by default on Wordpress sites.

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

The Health and Safety department's approach to carpal tunnel syndrome prevention was unorthodox to say the least.

It was at this point that Kate began to suspect that the phone call she received wasn't really from Windows Support.

For just $400 you can have this Raspberry Pi – and mine bitcoin

Specs?

The two most important specifications are the two that are conspicuously absent : power consumption and hashrate.

AWS outage knocks Amazon, Netflix, Tinder and IMDb in MEGA data collapse

Re: Perhaps Amazon

*insert David Cameron joke here*

Another website gone

At least archive.org has a copy : https://web.archive.org/web/20150619023237/http://www.wotsit.org/

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

Also available with upgraded silicon.

Intel's VP Sid James had taken a personally interest in developing the new Corrrrr! i5 processors.

Another chance to win a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive

Fetch the RAID. There's an insect on my back up.

'Yes, yes... YES!' Philae lands on COMET 67P

Interstellar

Hooray! Now can we get on with the plan to send Matthew McConaughey into deep space?

Apple sells world's most expensive flash drive

Uk price

An Apple Store genius offered to sell me one of these today for £55.

Sure Signal not so sure

Registered

It's limited to the numbers you register. You can register up to 30 vodafone numbers (which can be on different accounts) and up to 4 of them can be using the Sure Signal at the same time