Anything and everything I write that has something to do with tech. Maybe it’s a post about the time I blew up that server in 2003 because I didn’t know what bridged networking really meant. Sorry Roger!
I was inspired to write a list of basic tips that I could give out to friends and family on trying to mitigate the worst of the security and privacy threats I suspect they are oblivious to. Turns out the author Marc Goodman already started such a list.
By no means is he the first to do this, or will he ever be the last, but the UPDATE acronym (if he coined it) is a useful idea and is easy enough to digest that I’ll point people to this as a starting point.
Source: Future Crimes
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon [Kim Zetter]
Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb.
This book served as an excellent guide to understanding the timeline of Stuxnet. It goes deeper into the possible implications of *why* Stuxnet was as insidious as I always suspected. I learned more about the cyber weapon from this book than I did in 5 years of reading anecdotes and articles online. Sometimes nothing beats great research and a well written book.
BAM.
Just like that Newegg isn’t responding to requests properly. On Black Friday.
The domains the cert are looking for don’t seem to be completely illegitimate, however… none of them say Newegg.com.
