Informations about SSL certificates and networks security
Squid evolved during an “evolutionary war” — the Mesozoic Marine Revolution — about 100 million years ago. Research paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Powered by WPeMatico
This is my talk at the RSA Conference last month. It’s on regulation and the Internet of Things, along the lines of this essay. I am slowly meandering around this as a book topic. It hasn’t quite solidified yet. Powered by WPeMatico
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Researchers have demonstrated how a malicious piece of software in an air-gapped computer can communicate with a nearby drone using a blinking LED on the computer. I have mixed feelings about research like this. On the one hand, it’s pretty cool. On the other hand, there’s not really anything new or novel, and it’s kind … Read More “Jumping Air Gaps with Blinking Lights and Drones” »
Summer Fowler at CMU has invented a new word: prosilience: I propose that we build operationally PROSILIENT organizations. If operational resilience, as we like to say, is risk management “all grown up,” then prosilience is resilience with consciousness of environment, self-awareness, and the capacity to evolve. It is not about being able to operate through … Read More “Buzzword Watch: Prosilience” »
Botnets have existed for at least a decade. As early as 2000, hackers were breaking into computers over the Internet and controlling them en masse from centralized systems. Among other things, the hackers used the combined computing power of these botnets to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, which flood websites with traffic to take them down. … Read More “Botnets” »
ProofMode is an app for your smartphone that adds data to the photos you take to prove that they are real and unaltered: On the technical front, what the app is doing is automatically generating an OpenPGP key for this installed instance of the app itself, and using that to automatically sign all photos and … Read More ““Proof Mode” for your Smartphone Camera” »
We all should be concerned about the privacy settings in Windows 10. And we should be glad that the EU has the regulatory authority to do something about it. Powered by WPeMatico
At a talk last week, the head of US Cyber Command and the NSA Mike Rogers talked about the US buying cyberweapons from arms manufacturers. “In the application of kinetic functionality — weapons — we go to the private sector and say, ‘Build this thing we call a [joint directed-attack munition], a [Tomahawk land-attack munition].’ … Read More “Adm. Rogers Talks about Buying Cyberweapons” »
This is an excellent survey article on modern propaganda techniques, how they work, and how we might defend ourselves against them. Cory Doctorow summarizes the techniques on BoingBoing: …in Russia, it’s about flooding the channel with a mix of lies and truth, crowding out other stories; in China, it’s about suffocating arguments with happy-talk distractions, … Read More “A Survey of Propaganda” »