McRee's Visualizing Network Data With Network Data
Russ McRee's well-wrought piece published on his highly respected HolisticInfosec site, within his toolsmith column (both on his site and formerly in the ISSA Magazine) provides a tour-de-force primer on utilizing the R Development Environment. R in this case, is bent to Russ's will to accurately depict (of course) network data (in this case generated by (and in Russ's words) - "network traffic packet capture specific to malware called Win32/Sirefef or ZeroAccess that uses stealth to hide its presence on victim systems". Today's Must Read.
Espionage, The Intelligence Files
News, via Lucian Constantin, writing at PCWorld, details the discovery of a targeted group of LinkedIn Corporation (NasdaqGS: LNKD) users (in this case information security professionals) unwittingly involved in a focused intelligence/espionage campaign to garner discrete corporate information. Another case of social networks as the baseline method for intelligence gathering by nations-states and illicit non-governmental organizations. Aye me buckos! A treasure-trove thee awaits!
Microsoft Phones Home →
In a well researched and written piece, Chris Hoffman, writing at How-To Geek, reveals at least thirty methods of data collection Microsoft Coporation (NasdsaqGS: MSFT) uses within Windows 10, violating any rational persons' sense of privacy. Is it time for the Federal Trade Commission to step in and investigate this travesty? You be the judge (after all, it's your privacy that's being violated).
Ad-Block, and Why You Should Too... →
via the eponymous Darren Pauli, comes this tell-all of poisoned Google Inc. (NasdaqGS: GOOG) and Yahoo! (NasdaqGS: YHOO) advertising.
Les Fuites de Données Rapport de la Journée →
aka Data Leakage Report of the Day...
John Leyden, writing at El Reg, scribes a stupefyingly scary report, detailing misconfigurations in application deployment and implementation of so-called Big Data systems which are leaking vast amounts (reports of a petabyte are floating about) of data.
The Majority Compromised →
Lucas Mearian, writing at ComputerWorld, regales us with the astounding truth: The majority of health care providers and health plans/insurers have been compromised.
All of that is compounded by the same companies transfering risk, in the vainglorius hope they are better off for it.
Insiders Are The Greatest Threat, The FAA Aurora Radar Center Story →
The litany of the United States Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration's Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center in Aurora, Illinois (containing new, interesting factoids released by Prosecutors), via the superlative reportage of Jason Meisner at the Chicago Tribune. In which, one can deduce the simple, unfortunate truth: Insiders Are The Greatest Threat...
Device Enrcyption, A Guide →
In a well-engineered screed, targeting both laptop and phone encryption modalities, Andrew Cunningham writing at Ars Technica's gadget section provides us with a tell-all discussion of how, in fact, to protect thyself from the evil that lurketh without. Today's Must Read.