I can’t believe that came from your mouth!
28
Feb
US-CERT, the cyber division of the Department of Homeland Security introduced 4 posters today with the hopes that businesses will print them out and hang them in break rooms across America- hopefully between the water cooler and the half-eaten box of donuts.
You can see the posters here:
To be fair, the first poster is a pretty [...]
26
Feb
Batman would have been a little envious. In fact, any superhero or evil genius would love to have their own underground secret cave. But the geniuses who converted an underground cavern in Tennessee to a high-tech hidden base to grow marijuana got sloppy, stupid or both.
Read this amazing story and be [...]
25
Feb
Yesterday, I blogged about how McAfee was screwed over by their own auditing company that they hired to make sure that they were in compliance with Federal Law and best practices. Well now, Sun Micrososystems has been screwed over by their own auditing company too.
TheRegister has the exclusive scoop here:
Ernst & Young [...]
24
Feb
An auditor from Deloitte and Touche (or is it Toilet and Douche?) left a CDROM in the seat pocket on an airplane. What was on the CD? Just the names, socials, addies and employee stock information of about 6000 employees of McAfee.
Whoops. From SecurityFocus Here:
McAfee Employees at Risk
Thousands of McAfee employees, both American and Canadian [...]
24
Feb
Dirt-bag followers of the “Religion of Peace,” angry at the world, and having little else left to live for, tried to attack a Saudi Oil refinery with suicide mission car bomb, but only got as far as the front gate. Security Guards killed the terrorists and died in the resulting explosion.
From Reuters here:
Al Qaeda [...]
24
Feb
In Traverse City, Michigan.
From Yahoo here:
Psycho Path Voted Wackiest Street Name
In first place was Psycho Path in Traverse City, Mich., followed by Heather Highlands, Pa.’s, Divorce Court in second and Tennessee’s Farfrompoopen Road in third. Eisenstein said all the roads were verified, although some are private and hard to find.
It reminded me of a hilarious [...]
23
Feb
A botnet herder that goes by the handle of “0×80″ wanted to brag about his “l33t sk1llz” to a Washington Post reporter. The hacker, wisely, asked for his identity to be protected (ironic, considering he uses botnets to commit identity theft), and the WaPo agreed to do so. However, the metadata of the [...]
23
Feb
Teenage goth or juggelette has a spat with a girl about different boys in school. To settle her differences, 16 year old Sarah Kolb strangled her classmate, Adrianne Reynolds, and then proceeded to burn her body and dismember it and scatter the remains at public parks across two counties in Illinois.
Did this little precocious, murderous [...]
22
Feb
Seems like a light sentence to me for breaking into a system that houses such critical information. I think this highlights a problem that data and commercial systems are not classified by sensitivity- meaning that crimes against more sensitive data would be given harsher sentences that those against non-critical systems. I wonder [...]
22
Feb
To Get Verizon’s New FiOS Internet Service. High Speed Internet is faster than broadband cable, and there is a much better, all digital television service too. I get both services for around 75 dollars per month, as opposed to getting lower quality service from Comcast for around 120 per month.
See, Comcast, until today, [...]
21
Feb
A new movie is set to debut next month called Hoot. Hoot is about a Montana boy who relocates to South Florida, and proceeds to get picked on at school. He then befriends a homeless and perpetually shirtless kid who shows the Montana boy that there are owls living on a vacant lot [...]
20
Feb
She has been all over VH-1 for several days now, and featured several times per day when the station actually gets around to playing videos. Her hot hit right now is Black Horse and the Cherry Tree from her album Eye to the Telescope. You can check out a live performance of this [...]
20
Feb
Boy, PC’s really do not like having the motherboard swapped out with a newer model. Sheesh. After many fitful starts, I bit the bullet and reinstalled from scratch after making a good backup. New System is up, running slicker than frog hair, and is better than ever.
I’m running an ASUS motherboard with an AMD 3300 [...]
17
Feb
An article referenced by Drudge talks about Cyber-Bullies and online safety. What caught my attention, of course, is the bit about MySpace. Underage teens got into a cyber-spat with each other, and a 13 year old girl stabbed a 15 year old girl in the back several times. From the PalmBeach Post [...]
16
Feb
Egads, MySpace continues to rot the popular culture. Soon you will be able to update the world’s worst looking websites with a really bad cellphone! Yipee! From the AP Here:
NEW YORK – The social networking site MySpace, hugely successful among teenagers and twenty-somethings, is about to become more ubiquitous with the launch of a cellular [...]
16
Feb
An Olympic Gold Medalist is hailed on television as being an entrepreneur and a millionaire, who split his time between training for the slopes and by running a business. He even drives a $300,000 Lamborghini. What is his company? Popup advertisements and spyware.
From Spam King’s Blog here:
There’s already a tarnish on the [...]
16
Feb
My wife is a HUGE Beatles fan. I got her the Bob Spitz biography on the Beatles for Christmas. For some reason, I am reading it instead of her. So far, I think its a little on the pretentious side, but I’m going to stick with it and see where it [...]
15
Feb
No, I’m not making this one up. An idiot film director, impressed because Paris turned down a nude photoshoot with Playboy, thinks she has what it takes to be Mother Teresa. From AnnaNova here:
An Indian film director wants to cast Paris Hilton as the star of a new film about Mother Teresa.
Award-winning [...]
14
Feb
A British Hacker, dope smoker, and conspiracy theorist who hacked into US military and scientific computers in a vain effort to locate evidence of UFO coverups is fighting extradition to the United States. To do this, he hired lawyers that are helping known terrorists that are held in Guantanimo Bay to fight his extradition based [...]
14
Feb
Kanye West doesn’t care about women. To him, women are sex objects to be enjoyed many times per night in pursuit of his porn-addled fantasies. West is supposedly a devout Christian, but he is unmarried and has been bragging about his love of pornography and how he has to use women many times each [...]
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