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“Government recycles 2009 Symantec Threat Report as defence review cyberjustification” #unscrewingsecurity @computerworlduk
Government recycles 2009 Symantec Threat Report as strategic defence review cyberjustification The Home Office needs to learn what “Threat Signature” means Responding to the challenge I placed in my last post, Simon Waters directed my attention to the Symantec Global Internet Security Threat Report trends for 2009. I think he’s nailed it. …read or comment
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Facebook asks: please identify the people in this picture
So I downloaded all[1] my data from Facebook, and as part of the security theatre for the download process it asked me to identify the people in a number of photographs of friends; it required something like 5 positive matches with 2 skip/denial/dunnos. It gave me one photo which contained nobody identifiable – fie upon
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“Home Secretary: Wanna Cyber?” #unscrewingsecurity @computerworlduk
Home Secretary: Wanna Cyber? We must wait patiently for the other cybershoe to drop. Two things are clear after cybermonday’s cyberhoohah cyberregarding cybersecurity: First: no-one in government has yet Googled the phrase “wanna cyber?” else they’d know that to an adolescent demographic “cyber” when used as a noun or verb means “cybersex” or “to have
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Twitter Updates for 2010-10-19
@r4today re: your reporter talking about cyberspace as if it was a battleground: http://bit.ly/dlVYD6 # re: Rebirth of escrow & intercept I mentioned at #TAMLondon check out NYT http://goo.gl/DkEH && Bellovin http://goo.gl/1Tds #cryptowars20 # @alecmuffett whoops last tweet was meant to be a DM; worth reading, anyhow. # after all this time you'd think someone
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Twitter Updates for 2010-10-18
@angusr. "Meet my brother Sed." # Melinda Gebbie talking about Lost Girls, Alan Moore looming nr green room #tamlondon # @KerryMG been there done that. Result of being too fast is looking stupid, losing cred and readers. Alas. in reply to kerrymg # I rather like Melinda Gebbie… a quite magnificent lady #tamlondon # The
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Twitter Updates for 2010-10-17
Benoit Mandlebrot RIP #tamlondon # @Stormy_Teacup popped down to the Costa by main reception. Blueberry muffin & cappucino FTW in reply to Stormy_Teacup # Hearing the Lord's prayer at #tamlondon # Best line at #tamlondon : "He's standing behind you." # Front and centre at #tamlondon for #amateurtransplants #
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Twitter Updates for 2010-10-16
XKCD – how did we cope before stick-figure cartoons came along? http://bit.ly/vhzNk # bonus: who's the guy with swords, d'ya think? # …and @ruthiegledhill gets a cite: http://bit.ly/aU6Rgf # New: CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi calls for advertisers to be worshipped beyond reason, jargon expunged http://bit.ly/9dJFXv # @hlangeveld I generally don't ask them the question
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“CyberSecurity: Please don’t throw Government money at this nonsense” #unscrewingsecurity @computerworlduk
Cyber Security: Please don’t throw Government money at this nonsense The Coalition will fund me an antivirus upgrade? The best thing – the absolute best thing – about being an unaffiliated security blogger on CWUK is that you’re guaranteed daily to have something to discuss, and you’re free to say exactly what you think. Consider
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CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi calls for advertisers to be worshipped beyond reason, jargon expunged
Really. Watch this… Simon Francis …CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi in EMEA … …serving the twin gods of our world, which are really both advertisers and consumers… …online publishers and advertising agencies really have to serve both of them… …what i’m going to make a claim for is for everyone to change their way of
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Twitter Updates for 2010-10-15
"Are you sure you want to open 86 tabs?" (Yes) # An original, and Biblical, take on intellectual property and software piracy: http://imgur.com/xs3QW # I find the irony of MS fudding OpenOffice using a Silverlight video to be immense. Must be scared of losing existing… http://bit.ly/bUoU24 # I was hoping that the #historyoftheworld 100th object
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Twitter Updates for 2010-10-14
Is anyone in Italy sell 3G-Wifi Modems eg: http://bit.ly/ck9ibs ; friend bought iPad, ignored 3G option, now wants mobile network, no tether # @mitt_nya_nym not to the best of my knowledge. in reply to mitt_nya_nym # Googling "Slapper Detonator" – it's not what you might think… http://bit.ly/cem4bv # How ATM card skimming and PIN capturing
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Announcement: New Blog at Computer World UK!
At the suggestion of Simon Phipps, with the connivance of Mike Simons, and having shamelessly stolen stylistic cues from Glyn Moody, I’ve now joined the ranks of bloggers at CWUK. My goal is to write approximately 1.5x per week (you can do the math) and stuck to my wall I have pasted the following remit: