Smackdown!! Krebs vs. Fly

Brian Krebs is probably my favorite security investigator, journalists and blogger.  Brian is the guy who uncovered the Target breach last winter, and I highly recommend his blog, Krebs on Security, as a great read if you are interested in the dark web and how cybercrime works.

In an interesting case of “hacker-fu” or my skills beat your skills hacking, last summer Brian was targeted by a hacker known alternatively as “Fly,” “Flycracker,” and “Muxacc.”  It started with taunts ...

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Independence Day

Today in honor of our nation, our freedoms, our Constitution, and our military at home, abroad, and in combat, we publish this portion of the the Declaration of Independence. 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent ...

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How the NSA Legally Spies on Americans

So this is how the Internet is designed to work:  Basically information from your computer, such as email, or web requests, are broken up into small data packets, sent across the Internet using the best path available, and reassembled by the receiving computer back into human useable form.  This communication across the Internet is considered to be “connectionless” and “unreliable” because the communication pathway is not dedicated to the particular transaction, and delivery of packets is merely best effort, not ...

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Sunday Funnies–An Atheist in the Woods

An  atheist was walking through the woods.

‘What majestic  trees!  What powerful rivers!  ‘What beautiful  animals!’ He said to himself.
As he was walking  alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind  him.  He turned to look.  He saw a 7-foot grizzly  bear charge towards him.  He ran as fast as he  could up the path.  He looked over his shoulder & saw  that the bear was closing in on him.  He looked over  his ...

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Cyber-Security–Why Is Bad Stuff Happening To Me?

I again find myself reviewing Michael Kassner in TechRepublic.  His June 23 article does a great job explaining why were are currently losing more battles than we are winning in the realm of cyber-security.  The problem is that we live in disruptive times.  The Internet has completely changed the balance of power, and the bad guys quite frankly are more willing to learn how to exploit the technology and more nimble and quicker to adapt the good guys ...

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Winning the Battle in Cyber-Security

Using Military Style Kill Chains on Networks to Combat Advanced Persistent Threats

It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. – Sun Tzu in The Art of War

Back on May 1st, Michael ...

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Sunday Funnies: Hilarious Marketing Lines

Another contribution to the Sunday Funnies archive courtesy of my friend Aaron Miller of Miller Brothers Auto Repair, Somerset, WI. 

Now is your chance to have your ears pierced and get an extra pair to take home, too.
We do not tear your clothing with machinery. We do it carefully by hand.
Great Dames for sale.
Vacation Special: Have your home exterminated.
Wanted. Man to take care of cow that does not smoke or drink.

Sunday Funnies: Stories From The Help Desk

These were emailed to me by a friend, but sound oh so familiar.  If you work in computer support long enough, you get a nice collection just like these.

  • Tech  support:  What kind of computer do you have?
  • Customer:    A  white one…
  • Tech  support:    Click  on the ‘my computer’ icon on to the left of the screen.
  • Customer:    Your left or my left?

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Customer:    Hi, good afternoon, this is Martha, I can’t print. Every time I try, it says ‘Can’t ...

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Security Software Ineffective? So Says Symantec

As reported in the CompTIA Smart Brief on May 6th, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Symantec, the inventor of antivirus software, is declaring that host-based software security solutions can not stop enough malware exploits to be useful.  The problem with most exploits is that they take advantage of computer users’ trusting nature and gullibility to trick them in to permitting something that the software would usually like to block, or the malefactors gain access to systems ...

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Target Takes a Mulligan–CEO Resigns

The latest bit of carnage in the Target Christmas Credit Card breach is the resignation of Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel.  He is being replaced at the helm by interim CEO John Mulligan, Target’s CFO.  The first call he needs to make is to the CIO and his information technology security chief to see where the company is in rectifying the lapses that allowed the security breach to take place.

We see this as a largely symbolic and useless act, a ritual ...

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