Coil Whine

Newly revealed discovery of coil whine exploitation, targeting the harvesting of cryptographic artifacts (in this case, keys) via wireless connectivity. More here.

Sunday Security Maxim →

“Accountability Maxim: Organizations that talk a lot about holding people accountable for security will never have good security. Security needs to be motivated, not threatened.”

Excerpt From: Roger Johnston. “Security Sound Bites: Important Ideas About Security From Smart-Ass, Dumb-Ass, and Kick-Ass Quotations.”

Burners, The Tightening

Well wrought thought piece on the use, and misuse, of prepaid cellular telephony hardware, the so-call Burner, and the effort to enforce regulations thereto. Entitled Burner Phones: Will Tightening Restrictions on Prepaid Cell Phones Solve Anything? Certainly today's Must Read post...

Study, RF Signals Can Cause Cancers →

Uh Oh... A newly released (5-19-2016 ) draft study paper, entitled "Report of Partial Findings from the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague Dawley® SD rats (Whole Body Exposures)".

USENIX Unleashes ENIGMA →

Well, not unleashing in the truest sense, USENIX has released the organization's annual ENIGMA conference CFP announcement.

Oops, Touch ID Flawed →

Uh oh, TouchID is apparently not as secure as thought...

Analyze, Identify False Amazon Reviews

New, interesting analyzer site, targeting false Amazon reviews has appeared on our radar. Apparently legit, too.. Apparently, as the site also lists best products by the authenticity of the review. Grain, meet salt.

Blind XSS →

From BruteLogic (via Firewall Consultant's Trey Blalock) comes this treatise on Blind XSS.

Miniature Madras →

Witness the phenom that is the Mylapore Kapaleeswarar Temple Festival, in Mylapore (of course) Chennai, India. Hat tip to the Awesomer.

PhoneBoy, The Great Cloud Migration →

Repost of PhoneBoy's latest piece 'The Great Cloud Migration: Existential Threat or Opportunity?... Today's MustRead.

Quantum Computation Enters Mainstream →

Fascinating story, detailing the market entry of quantum computation - via the wunderkind of IBM. Written by GizMags' Colin Jeffrey, amd deemed this weeks Must Read. Execute your own experimentation regimen against your (temporarily) very own quantum bits.

Apple To Change OS X Moniker, MacOS To Carry-on →

via Ars Technica, comes this interesting re/new/old branding of Apple Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: AAPL) OS X (aka OS 10...); rumors do abound pre-WWDC...

Swedish Air Space Infringed, Aircraft Not Required →

Svenskt Luftrum Åsidosatt Flygplan Som

News, via Aldrimer, of the Kingdom of Sweden's airspace, and the violation thereof - without aircraft. Todays Must Read and Hat Tip to Firewall Consultants.

Internet of Shite, Nightmare of IoT Commences →

The dirty little secret of IoT. Hat Tip to Trey Blalock at Firewall Consultants.

Seventy Five Years Ago, The Bombe Girls

Bletchley Park pays homage to the popularly monikered Bombe Girls (Eight Wrens - Women’s Royal Naval Service), who had arrived at Bletchley Park seventy five years go, and focused on operating the Turing-Welchman Bombe Machine.