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(via Who Has Your Back? 2013 | Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:34:47 -0500

(via Who Has Your Back? 2013 | Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Ain’t it the truth.

Wed, 01 May 2013 20:39:16 -0500

Ain’t it the truth.

Some really great little tips. How did I not know about the...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:42:34 -0500

Some really great little tips.

How did I not know about the scrolling via spacebar?

What's wrong with CISPA? (in as few words as possible)

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:08:06 -0500

As it’s written, CISPA won’t protect us from cyber threats, but it will violate our 4th Amendment right to privacy.

It lets the government spy on you without a warrant. (read more)
It makes it so you can’t even find out about it after the fact. (read more)
It makes it so companies can’t be sued when they do illegal things with your data. (read more)
It allows corporations to cyber-attack each other and individuals outside of the law. (read more)
It makes every privacy policy on the web a moot point, and violates the 4th amendment. (read more)

TAKE ACTION at CISPAisback.org

(via Danny Hillis: The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B |...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:31:13 -0500

(via Danny Hillis: The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B | Video on TED.com)

"I walked away from the experiment with a visceral sense of password fragility. Watching your own..."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:20:55 -0500

“I walked away from the experiment with a visceral sense of password fragility. Watching your own password fall in less than a second is the sort of online security lesson everyone should learn at least once—and it provides a free education in how to build a better password.”

- How I became a password cracker | Ars Technica

"For instance, a system outfitted with two AMD Radeon 6990 graphics cards that run a..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:43:48 -0500

“For instance, a system outfitted with two AMD Radeon 6990 graphics cards that run a soon-to-be-released version of the Hashcat password cracking program can cycle through more than 2.8 billion candidate passwords each second.”

- Cisco switches to weaker hashing scheme, passwords cracked wide open | Ars Technica

"The whole concept of security awareness training demonstrates how the computer industry has failed...."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:45:41 -0500

“The whole concept of security awareness training demonstrates how the computer industry has failed. We should be designing systems that won’t let users choose lousy passwords and don’t care what links a user clicks on. We should be designing systems that conform to their folk beliefs of security, rather than forcing them to learn new ones. Microsoft has a great rule about system messages that require the user to make a decision. They should be NEAT: necessary, explained, actionable, and tested. That’s how we should be designing security interfaces. And we should be spending money on security training for developers. These are people who can be taught expertise in a fast-changing environment, and this is a situation where raising the average behavior increases the security of the overall system”

- On Security Awareness Training by Bruce Schneier

Open command prompt, set window width to 120 then “tracert...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:10:00 -0600

Open command prompt, set window width to 120 then “tracert -h 100 216.81.59.173”

Mr. Ryan Werber… you are my hero

"There seems to have been an explosion of interest in the last maybe two years,” Bejtlich says,..."

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:22:35 -0600

““There seems to have been an explosion of interest in the last maybe two years,” Bejtlich says, “where the hot thing to do is to found a company with five of your buddies who are all really good at finding vulnerabilities and just start making money.” … Bejtlich says. “It would be so easy for a legislator to say, ‘We’re going to do arms control. We’re going to keep this out of the hands of the bad guys.””

- In Cyberwar, Software Flaws Are A Hot Commodity : NPR

Your employees could be one of your biggest security threats....

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:59:12 -0600

Your employees could be one of your biggest security threats. How to overcome:

Educate - Teach a user in the way that they should go.
Proactively test - Phish ‘em, crack their passwords, social engineer them.
Get buy in - Don’t just bring the hammer bring the building plans.
Lock down. - When in doubt… block.

Michael Lazerow, Salesforce CMO, & Robert Scoble Talk moving...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:34:52 -0600

Michael Lazerow, Salesforce CMO, & Robert Scoble Talk moving to a personal contextual approach to interaction and technology. (by leweb)

What does it take to install Wifi in a Stadium?

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:54:55 -0600

Enterasys installed the Gillette Stadium WLAN backbone in 30 days to cover the entire 1.9 million square-foot facility. The system comprises about 360 3610/3660 access points in the stadium and about the same number of antennas; 34 repeaters; 42 C-Series switches, each with a 10-Gbps connection back to one of five Core S-Series routers/switches; six 5110 wireless controllers with 10 Gbps fiber uplinks; and 15 NAC virtual servers. Each radio is spec’d to support HD video on 100 mobile clients. The plan is that about 40% of fans can run rich media at any given time, with 100% having access for texting and social networking. Patriots VP of content Fred Kirsch said he plans for a 756k per-fan cap, with 350 GB of data per game running through the system. Enterasys’ OneFabric is used for management, and the mobile identity and access management system lets the team ensure security. Kirsch said Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance for fans buying concessions or other transactions is “a huge priority.”

"In the two days following Mat’s Wired article, a quarter-million people signed up for two step..."

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:19:17 -0600

““In the two days following Mat’s Wired article, a quarter-million people signed up for two step authentication,”

- Google Declares War on the Password | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

"Contrary to company policy, the woman had downloaded a file containing names, ages and prescription..."

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:41:01 -0600

“Contrary to company policy, the woman had downloaded a file containing names, ages and prescription information for 6,000 Utah Medicaid recipients onto a USB memory stick. Then, earlier this month, somewhere between Salt Lake City, Denver and Washington, D.C., the woman lost the device.”

- 1 “terrific employee” 1 thumb drive 6,000 lost medical records = fired! | Naked Security

Makeup for the future? Camouflage from Facial Recognition

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:52:02 -0600

Makeup for the future? Camouflage from Facial Recognition

Every minute a new impossible thing is uploaded to the internet....

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:24:04 -0600

Every minute a new impossible thing is uploaded to the internet. - @kevin2kelly (image / story)

(via DNSsvc.com bill is fake – KnowtheNetwork.com)

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:40:11 -0600

(via DNSsvc.com bill is fake – KnowtheNetwork.com)

"Type in rd /s c:\$Recycle.Bin and select Y to delete all the files in the Recycle Bin."

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:25:31 -0600

“Type in rd /s c:\$Recycle.Bin and select Y to delete all the files in the Recycle Bin.”

- Empty Recycle Bin of multiple accounts (Command Line)

"Boeing… is, using sacks of potatoes perched on aircraft seats to test the effectiveness of..."

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:29:58 -0600

“Boeing… is, using sacks of potatoes perched on aircraft seats to test the effectiveness of wireless signal in an airliner cabin.”

- Boeing uses 20,000 lbs. of potatoes to check aircraft wireless network signals