Friday, April 12, 2013

Cybersecurity - A View From the Front - NYTimes.com

This is an excellent essay from the President of Estonia. He makes some excellent points and generates some very good discussion points as well.

Cybersecurity - A View From the Front - NYTimes.com

Thursday, April 11, 2013

What Does a Five-Year-Old Know that Our Privacy Laws Don’t?

There is some really interesting stuff in here. And he makes a very good point that we've made a pretty simple concept extremely confusing and difficult to manage.

"The National Institute of Health has published data on deaths due to information error. Errors that could be erased with better sharing of information that we’ve had in our possession for as long as records have been kept. And we could share it with technology that’s been available for 20 years. The numbers are staggering: 100,000 deaths a year from healthcare errors."

What Does a Five-Year-Old Know that Our Privacy Laws Don’t?:

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Simple Pentesting Tools

This looks really cool I'll have to give some of these a try, particularly the Web Developer and VTchromizer extensions.

Pimp My Chrome – Pen Testing Style | NoVA Infosec

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Darkleech malware infecting Apache Servers

Quite possibly the most interesting part of this (to me anyway) is the way in which the application selects what systems to infect.

Exclusive: Ongoing malware attack targeting Apache hijacks 20,000 sites | Ars Technica