I learned the other day that Posterous is shutting down down. They were acquired by the Twitter folks a while back and the company needs to focus on it's core products. Too bad. Posterous is a great blog service. I migrated my blog to WordPress. It was completely painless and took just a few minutes. … Continue reading Bye Bye Posterous!
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US NSA Centers for Academic Excellence
From: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/academic_outreach/nat_cae/index.shtml "NSA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) jointly sponsor the National Centers of Academic Excellence in IA Education (CAE/IAE) and CAE-Research (CAE-R) programs. The goal ...
NY State CISO Evangelizes Risk Management
Questioning the Value of CISSP
What if everyone let his (or her) CISSP lapse? Dave Piscitello is a 37 year networking and Internet veteran who now focuses on Internet Security who wrote an interesting essay about his views of the CISSP certification. Good read. Not a rant. He m...
My Hometown newspaper got all Cyber this past weekend!
Long Island Newsday had a very well written editorial on Sunday titled "Cyber insecurity". In addition they featured an opinion piece written by Peter Goldmark titled "Small, smart,and anonymous" that addresses and discusses the transformation tha...
Bin Laden as a Lure for Malware
The initial reporting that I saw about using Bin Laden news as a lure was from AFP (American Foreign Press) via Cyber Security News (http://cybersecuritynews.org/). I went looking for more information about teh specific techniques that hackers use...
DHS Stepping Up?
Information Week Government is reporting about how DHS stepped up it's involvement in the cyber attack on RSA and speculates that .gov is getting more involved in the private sector. i don't agree. i think that RSA is a very important vendor to th...
Security News Daily reporting on a multipronged international wire fraud scheme
Great reporting from Security News Daily this morning on a mutlipronged international wire fraud scheme pulled off against three Iowa (US) banks. http://bit.ly/i1Qje5
Data on the 2010 Gawker Media password breach
A major security breach event for 2010 was the password disclosure at Gawker Media. On December 12th, 2010 Gawker Media discovered that their servers were compromised, resulting in a security breach at their web sites: Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker,...
Anonymous Launches New DDoS Attack Against RIAA [Softpedia]
Again... Anon takes exception to legal action against LimeWire. They originally went after RIAA last year on a Friday afternoon and took them down for 5 hour; messing up many people's weekends. Now that RIAA has filed a lawsuit against P2P file sh...