Information Security & Occasional Forays Into Adjacent Realms
In today's MustRead, we focus or attention on a fundamentally well-wrought thought piece targeting the notion of leverage and power, encapsulated within the cyber-security realm.
If you read anything today, read Billy Pope's tremendous screed and think on it, just a tad...
via Nature [Toshihiko Sasaki, Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Masato Koashi) and reported by Wired's Chris Lee comes this fascinating tale of the tribulations enveloping quantum key distribution [QKD]. The proof, as they say in the vernacular, resides within the experiment...
Via the erudite Dan Goodin at ArsTechnica comes the latest litany of ne'er do well personal privacy company LifeLock. Consisting, if you will, of the latest foul-up at the embattled firm, Mr. Goodins' screed has succeeded in the task assigned:
An excoriation of the ham-handedness in situ at LifeLock; describing in luxurious & excruciating detail the sorrowful tale of blatant incompetence rampant at the company. Simply, astonishing.
The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)² [grantor of the CISSP security certification] has experienced a revelation of sorts... Via Alex Holden of Hold Security LLC; apparently, not all things at the Consortium are always as they appear... A hail-fellow-well-met Hat Tip to the inimitable Brian Krebs, of Krebs on Security; and, If you read anything today, read Mr. Krebs' blog. You'll be exceedingly glad you did.