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Pirates target phones

No one can accuse spammers of a lack of innovation!
Check out this entry on the Websense security labs blog (Spam Emails Link to QR Codes)
Technology, meet psychology

It’s probably the biggest unspoken about problem in our industry today, it’s greatest challenge and the most persistent enemy of real security.
Mapping Normal

You can’t fix what you can’t see.
It’s a simple but often over looked reality driven home to IT support people every day.
Just some snippets

It’s been pretty busy lately so I’m just posting a few of the more interesting stories I’ve come across recently.
At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, two researchers demonstrated
The pussies at Monsanto

Hands up if you like Secunia - ‘cos I love them.
Anyone who helps cut through the blizzard of vulnerabilities we live with every month is tops by me.
Drugs in prisons

Prison guard, Manu Stanley Jensen pleaded guilty to two charges of corruption after he admitted smuggling cannabis to a prisoner in Tongariro-Rangipo prison in New Zealand’s mid North Island.
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Death of the Howard defence

In the year 2001 we were all still basking in the warm glow of the best Olympics ever and John Howard was prime minister of Australia on the cusp a federal election.
US Navy buys fake Chinese chips

Came across this doozie of a story where a US Navy contractor bought 59,000 microchips from China because they were cheaper, but it turned out they had a backdoor in them.
When is it hacking?

My dictionary is new enough to include this definition of the word hacking; gain unauthorized access to.
The noise, the noise

Here is the lamentation of a man mourning the death of the engineer, the one who’s profession is built on the truth.
