SouthWest Password Ad is both Good and Bad.
Southwest Airlines recently aired a TV ad in their "Wanna Get Away" series that features some serious password blunders. In the ad a General is asked for his password so…
Tilting It Sideways
Trying to track down the origins of an Internet meme can be an almost fruitless endeavor. Other than giving credit to its originator and perhaps giving them a few minutes…
Transcription of L0pht Testimony
Transcription of the YouTube Video: Hackers Testifying at the United States Senate, May 19, 1998 (L0pht Heavy Industries) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJldn_MmMY Transcribed by: https://www.fiverr.com/alx_does Senator Thompson: …If you gentlemen would come forward..…
I watched CSI:Cyber so you don’t have to.
CSI has a proven formula for making popular TV shows. Unfortunately that history does not include accurate TV shows. When it comes to tech and things ‘cyber’ this is probably…
In the Beginning There was Full Disclosure
Two of the largest companies in the world are bickering with each other about how best to protect users. I won’t get into just how historically hypocritical this is for…
Four Unnamed Sources
Or: If a pipeline explodes in the desert and there is no one there to hear it was it really a cyberwar attack? No one questions the importance of keeping…
All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again
Two teenagers in Winnipeg Canada somehow got the idea to see if the default password on a Bank of Montreal ATM machine was still valid. The got the default password…
Everybody must get stoned
Apparently FBI Director James Comey thinks that everyone in the Information Security Industry is a dope-smoking pothead who gets high just before an interview. “I have to hire a great…
Is it time for an industry wide MAPP program?
As you might suspect, the bad guys have much better exploit notification than the good guys. While there is no central repository of vulnerability information that is only released to…
Another BIG hack that wasn’t
No time to do a full analysis but the basics are a story out of Israel of a tunnel that was hit by a sophisticated cyber attack that caused a...…