BitCoin Security, Kaput
Fascinating screed, via ArsTechnica, by the inimitable Dan Goodin. In which, the well-lettered Mr. Goodin details the discovery of the paucity of BitCoin security. Surprised? Read more at Ars.
Fascinating screed, via ArsTechnica, by the inimitable Dan Goodin. In which, the well-lettered Mr. Goodin details the discovery of the paucity of BitCoin security. Surprised? Read more at Ars.
via the illuminating sarcasm of Randall Munroe at XKCD.
...in which, the erudite Dr. Vixie - CEO of Farsight Security - enlightens us regarding the danger of the so-called Open Internet. Today's Must See video.
via venerable CircleID, by contributor Jag Bains, comes a thorough, targeted examination of the varied distributed denial of service protection capabilities currently touted in the marketplace. Highly recommended and a mercifully short read, today's Must Read selection.
"The dirty little secret is, many DDoS attacks are perpetrated by your competitors. The attackers sometimes will target numerous competitors at once and do it at the worst time possible." - CircleID's Jag Bains
via the long-term cogitation of Randall Munroe at XKCD.
via the superb editorial cartoonery of Mark Streeter, at Cagle Post
Well wrought opinion piece eyeballing the narcissism of one Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden. Today's' Must Read.
via the acclimatized humor of Randall Munroe at XKCD.
The Richman Center, at Columbia hosts a panel discussion targeting Cyber Threats and Cyber Security, with Judith Germano, Chief of Economic Crimes, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey; Brendan Hannigan, General Manager, IBM Security Systems; and Matthew Waxman, Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Chair, the Roger Hertog Program on Law and National Security. The panel moderator is Jesse Greene, Executive in Residence and Senior Fellow at the Richman Center. Today's MustSee Security talking heads video. Enjoy.
via those scientifically sarcastic noggins at Fake Science.
All 110 minutes and 56 seconds of the documentary.
Another superb screed, by way of ArsTechnica's editor-in-chief Dan Goodin, details the terrible failure of the educational site monikered 'Get Safe Online' (ostensibly a password checking facility). Interestingly, when performing checks on user supplied passwords, the geniuses at Get Safe Online also manage to convey those credentials in address URLs, whence the ubiquitous miscreant can abscond with same. Astonishing...
via the dream-like humor of Randall Munroe at XKCD.
via John Little's estimable Blogs of War, comes an apt dissection of Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) latest governmental agency member:The United States Central Intelligence Agency.
Thomas Ricks' erudite take on the astonishing lack of Computer Science universities for the uniformed services here in the United States [and, interestingly, his advice on how to remediate the paucity of computer science educational opportunities for the uniformed services]. After all, there is a DoD Medical College, War Colleges, Officers Schools, Academies and the like, yet no focused computer science institutions...
Dan Goodin, writing at ArsTechnica, regales us with this sorry tale of another deep and aged flaw (in existence for nearly 16 years) in OpenSSL's cryptolib. This time, the flaw exists in the ChangeCipherSpec component of the crypto-library. Outstanding research, crafted by Lepidum tells it all.
via the laser-like humor of Randall Munroe at XKCD.