Articles for June 2016

Great little read about the Honda VFR-750 Interceptor’s history.  I owned and rode one of these for years.  I had a 1986 model, just before the “R” version came out.  Kept it in such good shape I sold it to a museum when I went to get another bike…

The 2016 Honda VFR800 springs from a long line of legendary Honda motorcycles. The common thread, dating back over 30 years to the first Honda Interceptor, is a sleek body wrapped around a flexible V4 engine. The latest VFR doesn’t stray from this recipe, offering the same blend of looks and performance that keeps VFR fans coming back for more.

Source: 2016 Honda VFR800: An Engineering Tradition, Properly Kept

Service blames password reuse for attacks used to drain financial accounts.

Source: TeamViewer users are being hacked in bulk, and we still don’t know how

Two-factor authentication is no longer an optional feature. If you use modern cloud services, this extra layer of security can dramatically reduce the risk of a hostile takeover. Here’s how to get started.

Source: Make your cloud safer: How you can use two-factor authentication to protect cloud services | ZDNet

Researchers have built a proof-of-concept processor that uses secretly stored electrical charge to trigger an ultra-stealthy backdoor.

Source: This ‘Demonically Clever’ Backdoor Hides In a Tiny Slice of a Computer Chip | WIRED