Avoid the Stick →
via Motherboard contributor Joseph Cox, comes the strange case of the errant USB stick, down under. In this case, the USB stick, that may appear in any Australian postal mailbox. Hat Tip...
911 Systems At Risk →
Well crafted reportage by David Bisson, writing at Graham Cluley's GCHQ blog, detailing a new paper published by Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Cyber-Security Research Centers' Mordechai Guri, Yisroel Mirsky, and Yuval Elovici. The fragility of these systems are, for a reasonable person, simply astounding; especially considering the significant capabilities to deploy hardened communications infrastructures in this epoch. As always, you be the judge.
The Rescue
Or, how a South African hardware engineer, Francois Rautenbach, rescued NASA flight computers from the vagaries of the scrap heap, and extracted the bits from ancient hardware. Absolument magnifique!
The Untrustworthy Chronicles: Password Strength Meters →
via Sophos' Naked Security Blog, come this tell-all targeting password strength meters; perhaps, why caveat emptor is good advice, when testing the strength of password choices.
Google, Refusenik →
News, via Robert Abel, writing at SC Magazine, of the refusal of Alphabet Inc. (NasdaqGS: GOOG) to remediate a login page redirect poisoning flaw (recently discovered by Aidan Woods) on the search leviathan's primary page. Oops.
Oracle Announces Cloud Identity Management →
Meanwhile, in Better-Late-Tha-Never-News, there is a white paper to accompany the latest Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) announcement.
Automated Cryptographic Validation Protocol (ACVP) →
Via Richard Chirgwin writing at El Reg, detailing the efforts by NIST (here's the project page)(and their private industry partner Cisco) to automate cryptographic validation.
LuciuOS →
In which, the new malware-focused development framework for malware research and mitigation is introduced. Enjoy.
Decentralization and Governance, Definitive Screed →
Fascinating screed via Phil Windley writing at his site - Technometria on decentralization and governance - this time dealing with ledgers, blockchain and otherwise.
Umlaut'd →
Apparently, Microsoft Corporation's (NASDAQ: MSFT) hugely successful Outlook email and calendaring juggernaut front end for the company's Exchange platform (and others - IMAP, POP3, etc) does not like the use of the Germanic Umlaut two-dot character...