Cyberjoke Friday to break up the Cybersecurity posts: realize that our kids and other young people are using technology in ways we don’t understand if we let them… that is why I try to use new technologies and apps every so often. Some kids that grow up coding will look at tasks in a different … Read more
Brian Krebs- KrebsonSecurity¹ has a story of Cici’s Pizza with a data breach on June 3rd . This credit Card breach story is interesting but not what I want to discuss. Instead let’s discuss “Todd”‘s response in the comments 1st response: So obviously Todd wrote this response as an immediate reflex action and does … Read more
What happens when an enterprising young person is in front of a computer too long? Oh yes one thing leads to another and WordPress is something to conquer. It does require patience and diligence. Every day somebody is finding new vulnerabilities in new and old software (this problem was uncovered by ‘speckz’ poster on reddit). … Read more
There is a problem from the board rooms to the Human Resource departments¹ and more. In the nextgov article it a survey shows that Human resource departments rank cybersecurity as “unimportant” or “very unimportant” So what does a Cybersecurity professional do? Tuck tail and run? Mope i.e. be depressed? No we must educate. We must … Read more
Of the Wired story¹ about FBI agent using Ukrainian hacker Popov to do their bidding there are many storylines: A criminal hacker wanted to turn and become legitimate – making money in the USA. FBI abused the hacker from Day1 for 3 years The FBI hierarchy did not know what they really had, but a … Read more
