Fake Story Still Fake, Media Still Clueless
About eight years ago a media story broke about how some “hackers” took over a British Ministry of Defense Satellite and were holding it for ransom. Anyone who knew anything…
Commentary
Honey Dipped Patch Tuesday
I have never really understood Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday from a security perspective. Sure from an IT management perspective it makes a lot of sense. The ability to actually plan for…
The Information Security Infantry
As a low-level, gravel crunching, grunt there are a few things that get drilled into your head through constant repetition, things like the only defense in an ambush is offense.…
Hackernews.com 10 Years Old Today
The registration info for hackernews.com says the domain was first registered on July 29, 1998. Ten years ago, today. wow. You know, long strange trip and all that. News wasn’t…
The next Last HOPE in 2010
So The Last HOPE is over and while I am still here in New York (the reason why I’ll save for another day) I have been contemplating the events of…
Talks at the Last Hope
After you attend more than a half dozen or so hacker cons you start to realize several recurring themes amoung presentation topics. Topics such as Freedom of Information Act requests,…
The Last Hope in NYC Today!
I’m sitting on the floor of the eighteenth level of the Hotel Pennsylvania at The Last HOPElistening to Karsten Nohl talk about the (Im)possibility of Hardware Obfuscation as he discuss…
OSF to take over DLDOS from Attrition.org
You may have noticed over there on the right hand side of this website a link to Attrtion.org’s DLDOS or Data Loss database. The DLDOS (despite the poor choice of…
Only You Can Prevent ID Theft
I was at Autozone yesterday getting a set of Upper Strut Mounts for my 167K mile old Saturn when the sales guy asked me for my phone number. I didn’t…
Financial Company Still Recommending Insecure Software
There are few things in this world that really piss me off and blatant ignorance is one of them. On January 31st 2006 Microsoft did the right thing and removed…