First Rule Of Antivirus Companies - Don't Succumb To Malware

May 13, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Anti-Patterns, Information Security, Schadenfreude

via Ionut Ilascu - reporting for Bleeping Computer, comes a story that all anti-malware companies (should/must) dread: Don't become victimized by the very malware you are detecting... Today's Must Read.

Out of Many, None...

November 29, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Anti-Patterns, Antivirus, Anti-Malware, Information Security

Or, Why AutoCad malware bits have a life of their own, so to speak...

Andreessen Horowitz - Peter Levine's 'Return To The Edge And The End of Cloud Computing' →

November 06, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All Good Things Must End, All is Information, Anti-Patterns, Patterns

Superb, and then there's this outstanding piece from Doc Searls.

The IoT Chain →

April 26, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Anti-Patterns, Computer Science, Information Security, IoT, IoT Security, Hardware Security

Meanwhile, in troubling IoT news, a paper (published by the IACR) entitled "IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction" & authored by Eyal Ronen, Colin O’Flynn, Adi Shamir and Achi-Or Weingarten (a Weizmann MSc student); we find - perhaps - the ultimate ZigBee nightmare... Today's Must Read (and while your're at it, check out the video to round out your day). Thanks and Tip O' The Hat

Tallinn Cyber Security Conference 2017, Joseph Carson's 'How Does a Hacker Stay Secure and Safe Online?' →

April 25, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Attacker Tracking, Attacker Anti-Tracking, Security Education, Conferences, Education, Information Security, Patterns, Anti-Patterns

...with homage to Dr. Englebart ( http://dougengelbart.org )

MOAAB* →

April 17, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Anti-Patterns, Computer Science, Computer Vision

via Vice's Motherboard writer Jason Koebler, comes this bad-news-for-advertisers screed detailing the work of Princeton and Stanford researchers to corral said ad-miscreants... The research team has crafted a computer-vision-based ad-blocker, that is reportedly 100% efficient in it's intended purpose. Phenomenal.

* Mother of All Ad Blockers

Linus, The Pattern-Breaking Pattern →

April 12, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Patterns, Anti-Patterns, Security Architecture

via the remarkable Futility Closet, comes this cartoon discussing patterns (and by inference anti-patterns), and pattern-breaking patterns. Astonishing.