Not Here

July 24, 2014 by Marc Handelman in Information Security, Application Security, Demise of Privacy, All is Information

via HOPE X conference speaker and forensic scientist Jonathan Zdziarski, comes this fascinating slide deck of backdoors in motion, and targeting Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) iOS 7 devices. Today's Must Read.

Internet of Untrusted Things...

July 17, 2014 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Blatant Stupidity, Data Security, Demise of Privacy, Sarcasm, Research, Network Security

via the superlative journalism of Dan Goodin at ArsTechnica, comes the sad tale of flawed light bulbs; in which, the internet of things are coupled to, evidently, the interweb-of-less-than-secure-objects-with-little-need-to-be-on-the-internet-in-the-first-place.

Des Possibilités Infinies

July 15, 2014 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Computer Science, Demise of Privacy, Information Security, Network Security, Physical Security

Fascinating write-up, via El Reg's John Leyden, of what some may say smack's a bit o' the Ned Ludd... In which, Mr. Leyden tells a tale fractionally too close to home; yours and my home, that is. A tale of portent, and societal dis-ease whence the Internet of Things [IoT] truly does arrive, and we become beholden to our inter-connected fridges, light bulbs and what-not. SkyNet? Hardly. An apt description would be MundaneNet™.

Triaged

July 07, 2014 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Demise of Privacy, Physical Security, Health Care Security

News, via Jordan Valinsky, writing at Gizmodo, detailing the use by some health care facilities - of big data extracts- and focusing on the credit card data contained therein. Perhaps you may be wondering why and how credit card data may be relevant to determining health payment statistics... Stay tuned and examine the Bloomberg Businessweek article where clarity may be provided in regards the use of spending information and illness in homo sapiens spendthriftus.

"According to Bloomberg Businessweek, it's currently being used by Carolinas HealthCare System, which is using that type of data to survey the health of its two million members." - via Jordan Valinsky at Gizmodo

Facebookery, Psychological Experimentation Without Consent

June 30, 2014 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Information Security, Demise of Privacy, Identity Theft

via Kirk McElhearn, a Senior Contributor focusing on iTunes automation and break-fix over at Macworld] comes a smattering of bad news for Facebook users. Apparently, large numbers of users were subjected to psychological testing [without prior consent]. Ooops...