Ok, it’s another Friday night and I was just scanning around web and came across an interesting series of videos over on FedScoop.com. They run a feature called FedMentors and it included a set of six videos featuring Ron Ross answering several questions. One of the quick-hitting videos highlighted him pondering the question “What’s...
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I’m a big fan of the Dailydave email list … always great discussions going on over there. Well, this afternoon I received my monthly “mailing list memberships reminder” from their Mailman service and I had my usual reaction. Why the f$#@ are they emailing my password? For being a security-focused group it would seem...
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You know … periodically you get an email or tweet with a link in it. Doesn’t happen that often, right? Should you click on the link or not? Of course we all know to copy the URL from the source, paste it into the address bar directly, and look for a seal like the...
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Every once in a while in my corporate gig some snarky guy with some book smarts and no actual infosec experience poses this question to show off. While I passed my CISSP years ago, which is where I would have probably memorized this, I often have a hard time recollecting the exact difference. Mr....
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Where do you want to be this week? Now you’ll always know with our “Where You Want to Be This Week” feature, which will tell you about infosec meetups happening in your local area as of Sunday night. If you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, contact us...
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Ok, I had to go with the “Words Starting with N” theme. Oh and by Notes, I really mean Comments. And by NICE I really mean the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education. I had been meaning to write about this a little sooner as you can tell by the dates of the articles referenced...
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Yesterday, I posted my thoughts on Amazon’s new GovCloud announcement. Although it offers a huge step in the right direction, there is still a lot of ground work that needs to be done in most cases. Someone that’s a bit more read in this whole area is local blogger Chris “@cyberhiker” Burton. You may...
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