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

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?:

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

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

Mobile location data 'present anonymity risk'

This is not really surprising, but it is interesting to see some real data. Anonymised data isn't particularly anonymous. If you think about your activities on a daily basis certain things would be pretty obvious based on your cell location data. It would likely be trivial to pinpoint your house and your place of work. It might also be easy to figure out where you get on and off of the bus, where you park your car, places you like to go for lunch etc.

BBC News - Mobile location data 'present anonymity risk': Recent work has increasingly shown that humans' patterns of movement, however random and unpredictable they seem to be, are actually very limited in scope and can in fact act as a kind of fingerprint for who is doing the moving.

94% of Healthcare Organizations Breached - BackgroundCheck.org

This is a really interesting info-graphic. 46% of breaches were for lost or stolen computing devices. That tells me that 46% of these losses could have been easily prevented by encrypting the data. Seems like such a simple solution. Unfortunately many organizations still think it is complex and costly.

94% of Healthcare Organizations Breached - BackgroundCheck.org

So I used to Have This Blog...

...then things got really busy (I think) and I stopped updating it. I think I'm going to start it up again. I'm going to be writing for Internet Evolution (first post coming next week) and I think this will be good for me to get the ideas flowing. I'm a WordPress guy and so I don't think I'll keep it here for ever and in fact I'm thinking I'll probably move it to my own domain (now currently hosting my photo blog). However, for now I'm going to continue to use Blogger and I'll see how things go. Stay tuned for, well, stuff.