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RSA Day 2: Wednesday with JJ & the Engima

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2008-04-14 01:35:30 by JJ in Security Uncorked
...geek-filled panel including Daniel Houser , Ben Jun and Hugh Thompson . (Hugh unquestionably won the Most Entertaining Geek Award for the day). I was tweeting live from the session and took some photos of the interactive polls they intertwined in the discussion. They drew some interesting correlations between current security issues, such as...
 
Tags: security, inherent security risk, day, security bloggers party, dry session, session, enigma, enigma machines, fathers session
 
 
 
 
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Hundreds of WiseBuys customers are victims of credit card fraud

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2008-04-26 21:01:56 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...geek to know. It happened over a day or two Evan] I think there are many organizations that have "no inkling". CEOs like Mr. Garrelts don't need to be "a big enough geek" to know how the companies they run are managing information security. CEOs are the ones that are ultimately responsible. Information security should be governed in such a...
 
Tags: credit card, credit, wisebuys, credit union, credit union absorbs, credit issuer time, canton wisebuys store, report credit, credit card companies
 
 
 
 
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Vendors aren't changing focus, you were just blissfully unaware

2008-05-08 08:09:41 by HASH0x8902444 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...geeks to focusing on the business decision maker. Michael's proof is rather subjective, but revolve around the fact that when he was a geek not in management, vendors use to wine and dine him to influence him to support their technology and tell his boss to buy their products. As he moved up to become a geek in management, he noticed the...
 
Tags: sales teams, emc sales teams, business, business stakeholder, people, sales people, sales, vendors, michael
 
 
 
 
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Heroes, the (Fall TV) Legacy

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2007-09-25 00:00:26 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...geek space. The combination of the good stories, the new revelations each week and the soap-opera-like connections between the different characters appeared to a bit wider audience than might've been expected As Season 2 kicks off tonight, I'm jazzed to watch, but even more jazzed about the Fall TV legacy of Heroes! What do I mean by that?...
 
Tags: heroes, heroes success, legacy, detective, undead detective mick, touch, nbc, time, touch sends
 
 
 
 
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10 Myths About Life As An IT Security Professional

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2008-04-25 23:08:41 by Craig Balding in Security Wannabe
...geek - but not cool geek. Thats a funny one. Some people get hung up that their friends will think their job is boring. If you work in the IT industry, your non-IT friends probably think you are boring already - get over it :-). Who are you doing this for, you or your friends? Besides, over time, you will develop new friends who work in the...
 
Tags: security, company security policy, security policy, technical security skills, technical security, policy, security professional, platform specific security, cool
 
 
 
 
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Vote but Verify

2007-09-07 19:56:11 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...geek consensus, see the above-quoted NIST draft, the US ACM policy recommendation , or Bruce Schneier (University of Rochester physics alumnus!). Or anything by Ed Felten or Avi Rubin on this subject. In this case, our representatives seem to be listening to informed advisers Regarding politics: All parties oxes have been gored at one time or...
 
Tags: all-electronic systems, systems, all-electronic, paper audit trail, all-electronic paperless approaches, security geek consensus, research topic, consensus, nist
 
 
 
 
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Two years ago today, Blue Box podcast #1 was launched

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2007-10-27 14:32:48 by HASH0x84724b8 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
...geek!). It's been a long, strange trip since then... we've learned a lot... about podcasting, about building a community... and, of course, about VoIP security. We've put out 69 main shows and 21 special editions - a total of 90 shows... with more in the queue. It's truly been a remarkable experience and we greatly appreciate all the...
 
Tags: blue box podcast, blue box, hotel wifi, hotel, voip security, poor connectivity, skype, connectivity, strange trip
 
 
 
 
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Geeks sharing recipes

2008-01-29 09:17:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...geek at heart, and I hate doing clerk-like work to figure out what to buy at the grocery store. I'd rather automate much of this menial work so that I have more time to spend with my kids or with my work My first step in my quest for automation was to find a program that helped me create shopping lists. I bought a copy of SimplyShopping ,...
 
Tags: acceptable data model, xml, data model, recipebook xml, xml schema recipe, recipes, data, recipe, xml format
 
 
 
 
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Encryption defeated, still an advocate?

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2008-02-22 16:15:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...geek? It means that there are now successful attacks against many encryption implementations, including those most commonly used on mobile devices (laptop, thumb drive, etc.). Here at The Breach Blog I have advocated the use of hard drive encryption in many posts and pointed out the fact that storing confidential information on unencrypted...
 
Tags: encryption, disk encryption software, encryption software, information security field, information, hard drive encryption, disk encryption, text information, encryption keys
 
 
 
 
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RIP Cisco PIX

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2008-02-06 06:46:31 by HASH0x8bc6004 in StillSecure, After All These Years