Becca Rick's 'How Paypal Shares Your Data' →
Rebecca (Becca) Rick's has published a highly informative interactive graphic (along with the data source) detailing the Paypal data sharing efforts, in which, your data is published to a multitude of said entities. Astonishing.
Folks, the easiest method to explore this super-graphic is to click this post's title, or the "published" link above, and magically visit the interactive graphic on Ms. Rick's site. Rated Highly Entertaining by Infosecurity.US!
Thanks for the H/T!
SIM'd
Well done (and mercifully brief) Subscriber Identity Module teardown. via Firewall Consultants.
The Untrustworthy Chronicles: Password Strength Meters →
via Sophos' Naked Security Blog, come this tell-all targeting password strength meters; perhaps, why caveat emptor is good advice, when testing the strength of password choices.
All Your Automatonic Security Are Not Belong To Us →
Well crafted thought piece appearing over at Darkmatters, a Norse blog, written by the inimitable Pete Herzog, regaling us with the truth of robotic security. Today's MustRead.
"The problem is that automating security creates a paradox. You see, in security, automation works best as a tool and not a wielder of tools. You see, your security automation is in charge of making periodic and systematic changes to controls and then verifying those changes." via Darkmatters, a Norse Security blog, by Pete Herzog
Vitae Tacitum, Litaniae ex Signum →
Fascinating piece on the notion of passwords, written by Ian Urbina at the New York Times Magazine; with an exceedingly tight focus on the true meaning of the so-called password object...
Name'd →
Everything you would want to know about the naming of malware, via Violet Blue for Zero Day. Enjoy.
All Your Base, Encrypted They Are
Efforts are underway, led by the inimitable Electronic Frontier Foundation to encrypt the Internets, in it's entirety...
'We Don't Have An Algorithm For This'
via Dr. Holger Sierks, a Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Scientist and Principal Investigator, leading the team working on the OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System) on-board the Philae, describing the effort taken by human researchers when analyzing images of the comet...
The ramifications to many endeavors, ranging from automated driving, to automated information and physical security functionality (identity management, authentication, access control, biometrics, image recognition, et cetera) are startling, when confronted with new visages, we have yet to develop algorithmic capabilities to manipulate the data, and bend it to our will. EOM
Virtue of Patience
Cogitate thrice upon updating newly released software with newly released patches to fix newly discovered bugs, as evidence of cruft...
