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11 Harsh Realities About The World Of Harry Potter
Glad I’m not the only person who’s thought this: 11 Harsh Realities About The World Of Harry PotterWe’re blowing the lid off this totalitarian regime! Once you peel back the layers of child-like wonder, it kind of sucks to be a wizard. via 11 Harsh Realities About The World Of Harry Potter.
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APT Defender : “The APT causes many tears. We are their Kleenex.” #cyber #this #somuchthis
Via Spaf: APT Defender. WE HAVE ENOUGH EXPERIENCE TO GO AROUND Our CISSPs have been dealing with APTs before they were even ‘a thing’. They have the knowledge and expertise to dig into your situation, assess how advanced the threat is, and to stop the persistence in its tracks. From there, they will work with
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Wanna bet that CESG was using Man-in-the-Middle SSL with a fake cert/CA?
Certificate pinning and Convergence, now – or mandate VPNs. I don’t believe that Google’s Certificate Transparency addresses this narrow, one-off, state-sanctioned threat – am I wrong? Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of
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Seems to be a new PDF (malware?) spam doing the rounds: “Gmail Verification Alerts”
I just received a PDF – “Gmail Verification Letter.pdf” – with an MD5 of dfa4f3d5e56d8700400dd919d40b44f4 and which GMail passed to me without flagging as spam. Of course I’m not going to open it – at least not yet – and because it comes from Miami medical school rather than the ostensible “Gmail Team”, I am pretty
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Mark Zuckerberg “Likes” Something That’s Awesome: Baby Foxes # FB Foxes make Gawker headlines
Somebody assign me a task for the ‘Love’ button… These outrageously adorable baby foxes were born on the grounds of Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park. They like to hang out in the Zen Garden. And they’re the stars of a Facebook page called “FB Foxes.” Do you like them? Of course you like them. They
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Hackers prepare for first “national holiday” in their honor – Boing Boing
Hackers often encounter public uncertainty at their craft’s virtue. With the forthcoming National Day of Civic Hacking, however, their celebration of creativity, collaboration and technical innovation sees its first “national holiday.”Groups leading the June 1-2 event include Random Hacks of Kindness, Code for America and the investment firm Innovation Endeavors. They’re working with government agencies
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The Daily Beast as seen by Ghostery
Install Ghostery on Chrome or Firefox; this page is particularly impressive:
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…aaaaaand I’m back.
Been a bit quiet here, recently. Back now. Normal-ish service to be resumed over the next few weeks.