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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-01
Trying to find affordable/useful #security #training covering legal aspects & requirements of data protection, compliance #alreadyapentester # RT: There's Free (as in Beer) and Free (as in Speech) but the lesser-known third option is …: http://t.co/hYqQ3N93 # @beng Think it means "When you ask to reset a password, don't fanny about because we've sent you
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Routers from China’s Huawei Vulnerable to Trivial Attack # If you’d heard what I’ve heard about Huawei …
… then you would not be surprised by any of this; rumours of measuring coder performance via lines of code per day and of not reusing tested open-source code on the basis that it’s hard to reconcile developer team performance targets against code reuse. Run away. In a talk on router hacking during Def Con
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HELP: Advice to a new graduate applying for a job in Pentesting & Security, first interview
So a friend’s just graduated with a first in Comp Sci, has a historical interest in Linux and security, and has a job interview coming up soon… and I’ve been asked to provide some feedback and advice. This is a bit tricky since I’m an oddball case, but I’ll share a few ideas and throw
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-31
: Troy Hunt: Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco # MUST-READ analysis by somebody who gets it http://t.co/sxAKp20l # : Hey Trusted Computing / Security Label Geeks – if you like XMPP then read this: "XEP-0314: Security Labels in PubSub" http://t.co/eo7etnsG # # Let me take you by the hand and lead you through
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There’s Free (as in Beer) and Free (as in Speech) but the lesser-known third option is …
I was out to dinner with Whit Diffie and @adriana872 at the weekend, and Whit quoted something that he’d heard somewhere in the upper echelons of Sun: There’s Free (as in Beer) and Free (as in Speech) but the lesser-known third option is Free (as in Puppies) That’s where you give someone something for free
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Show us the source code of your patent-pending app #Wickr, else you smell like #security snake-oil /cc #torproject
Wickr was founded in San Francisco, California by a team of security and privacy experts. Our patent-pending technology brings sophisticated security and privacy to everybody. Mission The Internet is forever. Your private communications don’t need to be. Wickr’s mission is to provide secure communications that Leave No Trace. People are being tracked online and their
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Google Alerts “We Take Security Seriously” :: Ubisoft’s DRM #vulnerability puts users at serious #security risk #BREAKING
Ubisoft’s UPlay Includes Security Exploit You Need to Remove Immediately Paying customers frustrated and angry: 99%. Pirates thwarted: 0%. I’d say that about sums up Ubisoft’s score when it comes to the studio’s DRM tech and PC gaming, particularly with this latest bit of news: Cyber experts say Ubisoft’s mandatory UPlay network features “really bad,
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Phantom Railings – A WWII installation art / memorial near Euston
Phantom railings: a public art intervention that plays on London’s wartime memories “Phantom railings” is an interactive sound sculpture that uses the movements of pedestrians to evoke the ghost of a lost iron fence. The site of the intervention is a garden in Bloomsbury, whose railings were removed as part of the 1940s war effort
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Google Alerts “We Take Security Seriously” / “Military Grade” / “E-Voting” #thisshouldbefun #prediction
Is your vote secure? Many digital systems lack paper backups Officials from companies pioneering Internet voting disagree. “We take security issues extremely seriously,” says Lori Steele, chief executive officer of Everyone Counts, a San Diego-based Internet voting company that provides services in Colorado, Utah, Washington, Florida, and Illinois. “We use military-grade encryption and feel ours