Thursday, June 17, 2010

personal security measures for everyone

I am at the security/hacking talk by Ken Sipe at the Uber Conf. It was an very interesting talk. Learned about some of the cool tools availble to hackers. He also some good guidelines that i think we all can/should use. Specially in light of how easy it is for hackers to do "bad" stuff.


  • We should all use different browers for general browering/browsers for financial transactions. i.e use chrome exclusively for financial transactions, firefox for general browing

  • When browsing to a site where you do financial tramsactions always have ONLY One tab open. to the site you are at.

  • never do business with site ( as a policy)

    • that will return your passwd in email/over phone
    • will ask you passwd to another site

  • do a simple xss check/sql injection check

interesting rules. I hope to use them

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