In the first part of this mini-series I talked about how password managers can protect you from the most common random attacks. In this post, I’ll be looking at what you can do beyond password managers to further harden the security of your data: multi-factor authentication. ... Read more

Adobe, LinkedIn, Dropbox. In the last few years, these well-known companies suffered from compromised systems, exposed user data and joined an ever-growing list of information security and privacy nightmares. Chances are your email address and password along with other personal data is part of the database dumps stolen and is easily accessible in certain corners of the internet. What can we do to mitigate the real-life effects of having our personal data exposed on the internet? In the first part of my series on personal information security, I’ll have a look at password managers. ... Read more

Whilst looking at some old code of mine, I discovered a quick way to programmatically retrieve a hosts local IP address, the socket.getsockname() function. ... Read more

Today, I discovered a little-used feature on Python’s dict type that I thought was worth talking about briefly: the setdefault method. ... Read more

Pondering over the Shotgun hook framework at work today, I wrote a simple hook decorator handling pre-function execution and post-function execution events. ... Read more