Category Archives: Security

Thank you for listening

Well, it looks like already this year I have presented eight webcasts (covering HIPAA, IT Governance, NERC CIP, PCI DSS, Red Flags, and Security Breaches). I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has listened. My ninth webinar this year will be Thursday, again on NERC CIP.

Today’s webinar, “Top 10 Security Breaches” with over 500 in the audience, was especially fun. I tried to weave political, historical, legal, and economic considerations into the technical details of recent security breaches.

I also am starting this week to spin up some podcasts to provide a more in-depth look with an extended Q&A format. Today’s podcast will take a look at the WorldPay breach in detail. Hope to see you there.

Thanks again. Feel free to send me questions or comments especially if you would like more information or a topic covered in the future.

The Best Tactics in the World Don’t Matter if the Strategy is Wrong

Wired has posted an interview with Craig Mullaney that explains his experience and lessons from Afghanistan, as documented in “Unforgiving Minute”.

…in 2003, at a time when we didn’t officially recognize that there was an insurgency in Afghanistan, the strategy was wrong…like throwing darts in a dark room. Sometimes you hit the bulls eye, but you don’t deserve to.

Jon Stewart on the Bailout(s)

Facebook Database Error

I find it interesting that I was just sent a news feed item on Facebook from the President:

Barack Obama is speaking at the White House forum on Health Reform. Watch live: http://www.healthreform.gov/video/room1.html.

The text below the news showed 3,875 users had clicked on the “like” option. I thought that was a strange number so I clicked on it as well and received a popup message: “unable to write to the database”.

It seems that 3,875 represents the maximum buffer on Facebook for likability. Not surprisingly a few minutes later the like option and like count were removed from the news item.