Category: Security

Groklaw – The Google Microsoft Fight About FISMA Certification
This is a fun story.
April 14, 2011
PHP Fog Blog – How We Got Owned by a Few Teenagers (and Why It Will Never Happen Again)
Incredible detail into what happened and thoroughly explained how it will never happen again and how they are much more secure moving forward.
March 22, 2011
NYTimes.com – Whatever Nuclear Power’s Threat, No Easy Alternatives
Not typically known but true, especially when taking into account the pollutants that coal plants emit.
March 20, 2011
VeriFone – VeriFone Releases Open Letter to the Industry and Consumers
Let me explain how easy it is to get this same information had you card over to a waiter like you do everywhere.
March 13, 2011
BBC News – New net rules set to make cookies crumble
That’s not a fun change to make, especially because if people choose to reject cookies, they’ll want to know why the site acts so differently.
March 8, 2011
Freedom to Tinker – Seals on NJ voting machines, March 2009
So security seals protecting those voting machines, useless.
March 8, 2011
threatpost – RSA 2011: Winning the War But Losing Our Soul
Why is the IT security industry using black hat techniques for civilian work?
February 27, 2011
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth – TSA Source: Armed Agent Slips Past DFW Body Scanner
Another nail in the proverbial coffin of these scanners being worth anything.
February 22, 2011
Ars Technica – Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
Apparently it’s not too hard to hack a world renowned security company.
February 16, 2011
BBC News – Gun habit takes hold in neighbourhood of unlocked doors
Wonderful point BBC.
February 13, 2011