UPS in your data center? No DDoS protection on its Internet connection?
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Archives for February, 2011
Twelve Tuesday: Love and Marriage, Business and Internet Connectivity – You Can’t Have One Without the Other
by John Pescatore | February 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
IBM’s Watson Wins At Jeopardy, But Would It Still Fall for a Phishing Email?
by John Pescatore | February 18, 2011 | 2 Comments
John Henry was on the right hand, But that steam drill was on the left; “Before your steam drill beats me down, Hammer my fool self to death, Lord, I’ll hammer my fool self to death.” John Henry Blues I guess we all now know how railroad workers felt in the late 1800′s when the [...]
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Traditional RSA Day One Recap
by John Pescatore | February 16, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Day one of the RSA conference followed the usual pattern: RSA and the biggest sponsors (called Global Diamond this year) filled the morning with speeches, until the real reason for coming: the Cryptographers Panel. The panel was hosted by Avi Juels of RSA, with Diffie-Hellman (Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman) and RS not A (Ron [...]
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Twelve Word Tuesday: Rain and Fog in San Francisco – It’s RSA Conference Time!
by John Pescatore | February 15, 2011 | Submit a Comment
I wonder if locksmiths spewed telegraph PR spam before their 1849 convention?
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Should Your Android Phone Be More Secure Than Your Home DVR?
by John Pescatore | February 11, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Kaspersky Labs points out that the latest version of the Android Market allows anyone from a browser to use their Google Mail credentials to remotely download applications to their Android-based smartphone. I can just picture the design session that drove this: Hey, I can program my Tivo from the Web – so much easier than [...]
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The Risk is One in a Million; The Odds That I’m That One Are 100%
by John Pescatore | February 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’ve said that the typical bot net threat will be the basic mechanism for the delivery of damaging targeted attacks for the next several years. Many feel they would never be targeted, so the risk that they will be hit by such attacks feels low. The typical risk calculus goes like this: Not all that [...]
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Twelve Word Tuesday: The Brave New World of IPv6
by John Pescatore | February 8, 2011 | Submit a Comment
340 undecillion + addresses, lotsa new headers, new stacks – how many gotchas lurking?
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Introducing The Security Misery Index
by John Pescatore | February 2, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Back in the 1970′s in the US, economist Arthur Okun came up with a simple “misery index” by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate. Not a perfect metrics, but it was used to great effect by Ronald Reagan when he campaigned against Jimmy Carter in the 1980 US presidential race. Tracking it is [...]
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Twelve Word Tuesday: Remember When IT Security Used to Try to Deny Internet Access?
by John Pescatore | February 1, 2011 | Submit a Comment
To many users, the CIO looks like Mubarak, ITSec the military.
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