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5 Best Online #Backup Services, including #SpiderOak for security & #Bitcasa for cheap multi-Tb capacity http://bit.ly/1eot7Bv
via @kmkubo
http://lifehacker.com/five-best-online-backup-services-1006345049

Great eval of @LastPass on old @SecurityNow episode, highlighting total #encryption approach & plan if company tanks

Also, login grids, 1-time passwords

Steve thoroughly evaluates LastPass, explains why high-security passwords are necessary, and tells us how LastPass makes storing those passwords secure.
http://twit.tv/show/security-now/256

downloaded, synched, listened & posted

Fact or Fiction: #Encryption Prevents Digital Eavesdropping
http://bit.ly/12XkyHl via @sciam @lggreenemeier – Nice technology overview

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-fiction-encryption-prevents-digital-eavesdropping

http://crypto.stanford.edu/PwdHash

An update on the DDOS attack that knocked out gersteinlab.org for a day http://blog.easydns.org/2013/06/04/post-mortem-of-the-june-3-4th-ddos/

Things to note: easydns is still vulnerable to this kind of attack. They are implementing design changes to mitigate future attacks.

Account of the the DNS hosts being under attack
http://blog.easydns.org/2013/06/03/ddos-in-progress-2/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers-infiltrate-new-york-times-computers.html?_r=1&&pagewanted=all

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21571120-tinkering-skype-can-allow-people-send-undetectable-messages-speaking

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/technology/personaltech/how-to-devise-passwords-that-drive-hackers-away.html

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/mat-honan-data-recovery/all/