"the Art of Secure Application Deployment" →
In my opinion, there is absolutely no 'art' in securely deployed applications...
Not withstanding this, the subject of this post is the well engineered conversational interview over at Linux.com, with Tim Mackey, an evangelist at Black Duck Software; in which the two participants in the conversation hold forth in 'DevOps and the Art of Secure Application Deployment' (scribed by Amber Ankerholz). Worth the read.
Reportage →
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has voted in the affirmative to adopt the investigative report on Edward Snowden... While the full report is classified as SECRET, the unclassified executive summary is not. Read it and Weep.
911 Systems At Risk →
Well crafted reportage by David Bisson, writing at Graham Cluley's GCHQ blog, detailing a new paper published by Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Cyber-Security Research Centers' Mordechai Guri, Yisroel Mirsky, and Yuval Elovici. The fragility of these systems are, for a reasonable person, simply astounding; especially considering the significant capabilities to deploy hardened communications infrastructures in this epoch. As always, you be the judge.
The Rescue
Or, how a South African hardware engineer, Francois Rautenbach, rescued NASA flight computers from the vagaries of the scrap heap, and extracted the bits from ancient hardware. Absolument magnifique!
The Untrustworthy Chronicles: Password Strength Meters →
via Sophos' Naked Security Blog, come this tell-all targeting password strength meters; perhaps, why caveat emptor is good advice, when testing the strength of password choices.
Google, Refusenik →
News, via Robert Abel, writing at SC Magazine, of the refusal of Alphabet Inc. (NasdaqGS: GOOG) to remediate a login page redirect poisoning flaw (recently discovered by Aidan Woods) on the search leviathan's primary page. Oops.