GovInfoSecurity reports on a flash drive that breached the US Department of Defense Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn III, in an article to be published by the journal Foreign Affairs, writes that a flash drive inserted into a laptop on a military post in the Middle East in 2008 caused the most significant breach of … Continue reading Operation Buckshot Yankee
Fortify has been doing surveys at conferences and claiming results as isolated. I thought it made more sense to put them together, or at least do a comparison of results. They had a survey at an InfoSec Europe conference, to start with, this past June that claimed IT Professionals Are Hacking Their Own Enterprises To … Continue reading Fortify Survey: DefCon attendees more likely to want exploits
The Penguin Archive Project has revealed some fascinating details in the history of Penguin Books, such as the story of their ‘secret editor’ as reported in the Telegraph. Eunice Frost became an editor at Penguin in the late 1930s and went on to be its first female director. Along with the firm’s founder, Allen Lane, … Continue reading Happy 75th to Penguin Books
I love old black and white spy movies where a subtle etiquette or taste mistake foils a plan. They highlight the importance of privacy and identity as related to culture. One example is the American spy in German-occupied France of WWII who switched his fork and knife during a meal in a cafe. It is … Continue reading Identity and the Gefilte Fish Test