XKCD, Where Do Birds Go →
via Randall Munroe, at XKCD.
In an astonishing announcement, and one that I thought might never materialize in my lifetime, Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks has revealed a new fusion reactor, slated for market deployment within a decade. Not to be outdone, the University of Washington has also announced a new tokamak concept reactor that promises inexpensive energy, in fact, 'cheaper than coal'. Absolutely Outstanding.
News [via Lucian Constantin writing at PCWorld] of the latest compromised advertising networks... In this case, Right Media (now Yahoo Ad Exchange), The Rubicon Project, and OpenX - all three broadcasting their nasty bits, now infecting unknown numbers of clients... Hence the necessity of proactive ad-blocking with browser extensions such as AdBlock.
News, via John Ribeiro, writing for PCWorld, of the acceptance of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s (SSNLF) KNOX device product line within the National Security Agency's Commercial Solutions for Classified program.
Glenn Fleishman, writing at MacWorld, regales us with a sort of iCloud Omnibus; in which, the Good Mr. Fleishman tells of Cupertino's take on the security of the remote storage behemoth's infrastructure (also known as Apple Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: AAPL) iCloud).
Writing for The Guardian, Dominic Rushe and Paul Lewis have certainly embarked upon a problematic path to tread... Focusing their combinatorial scrutiny on the entity known as Whisper, we discover the kernel of truth denoting what the company is offering up.
Well now, this is the first time I have read advice like this from a web designer. no less.
Because, you will, me-buck-o, be-a war fighting sans guerre électronique...
Astonished to find this well-written investigative piece by Vince Lattanzio, writing for NBC 10, in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania [covering Philadelphia and the NBC affiliate in the City of Brotherly Love]. In an effort to detail the the Department of Homeland Security's Forensics Investigation Laboratory many of the tricks of the trade - so to speak- are illustrated for all, including an EMF blocker container to examine miscreant-owned mobile devices without the possibility of remote data destruction.
via Geekologie comes this look at Google Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: GOOG) street view in Abu Dhabi...
Readers who have examined this weblog during the thirteen years plus of it's publication, know of my Interest in Matters Turing and Bletchley; Alan Turning & Bletchley Park, that is... With those Foci in mind, here is a fascinating serial scrutinizing the history of Bletchley Park, the nearly seventy-year-old locale of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) (now known as GCHQ). Today's MustRead.
Not to be undone by the well reported Bourne Again Shell vulnerability of two weeks past, now, via, Robert Lemos, writing at ArsTechnica, comes this sordid tale of poor punctuation coupled with input validation issues. In which, the vulnerability at hand, opens up a logical path within the Microsoft Corporation (NasdaqGS: MSFT) Windows in-built shell, where all the badness is vectored...
Interesting piece scrivened by [IMHO] the Curmudgeon-of -all-things-Macintosh - Kirk McElhearn - writing for MacWorld, detailing is research into methods to speed up your traversal of our beloved inter-webs. In this case, the utilization of Google Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: GOOG) Namebench application is in order (the search leviathans' OpenSource DNS benchmark utility. The resultant data points may spark questions...
Infosecurity.US wishes our Canadian Family and Friends the Very Happiest of Thanksgiving Holidays, Today 13 October 2014!