Tagged: security

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Thanks to CellC, Facebook’s Internet.org will become South Africa’s anti-privacy internet proxy

South Africa’s CellC CEO Jose Dos Santos “proudly” announced that from today, 1st July 2015, CellC in co-operation with Facebook will offer zero-rated internet access to Facebook and a handpicked number of South African websites. In simple terms, you download a Facebook app...

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SSL implementation is poor across South African financial institutions

With the recent security issues across many South African mobile iOS applications, I thought it would be an important exercise to establish how well South African financial institutions have implemented transport layer security across their online financial services. Anyone can run...

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Several South African iOS apps vulnerable

SourceDNA has released a report titled “AFNetworking Strikes Back: 25,000+ Apps” which highlights that over 25,000 iOS apps face exposure due to a security flaw (which has been fixed about a week ago) in a commonly used networking library. I originally...

Your Privacy

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Spot the difference – barking mad

If you have not followed our cause to save our cat Damian, perhaps read this page first. First off, I must state that we love animals and have supported them as much as possible wherever it was possible. In my first...

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WordPress and CloudFlare

If you have decided to use W3 Total Cache as your caching mechanism, the next logical step is to use CloudFlare as an accelerator. Think of CloudFlare as your website accelerator (in simple terms it’s a distributed hosted nginx server). Enabling...