-
Please *do* glorify some great hackers and not crime
Please *do* glorify some great hackers and not crime ( Read more... ) -
MCU for Fall and Winter 2013
The Keanu movie about the ronin was not as bad as the trailer led us to believe it would be. I saw it in a theatre with an aikido afficianado and she was also somewhat shocked by its overall quality, some aspects of the plot, and the treatment of the end of the story.
The second Hobbit movie is very good though I don't really enjoy the roller ( Read more... ) -
20C AP student requesting records for transfer institutions
Or sign # 875,675 that I should have gone to university at age 12 or not at all: further punishment for taking AP courses
Greetings,
I took AP courses and exams in high school in the twentieth century (1993-1995 CE) before your web site existed. Despite that universities continue to insist on AP score transcripts and I am trying to get some sent. I ( Read more... ) -
Learn more about security
Do you want to know more?
Want to learn more about memory analysis?
- Install Volatility or grab SIFT VM
- Get memory image samples from:
- Volatility wiki: https://code.google.com/p/volatility/wiki/PublicMemoryImages
- HoneyNet: Read more... )
-
a snarky but informative post to dc404
There were some interesting opinions expressed about recent news events at the meeting Saturday but when I asked if anyone had done the reading I got a lot of blank stares. This distresses me quite a bit since hackers and security "people" should be more educated and informed on these issues than the general public -- not less. This is our history ( Read more... ) -
Summer vacation MCU
I got through a bunch of comics and some audio on the little mini-vacation we took around Memorial Day weekend. I'll add these to http://f.adric.net/index.cgi/wiki?name=Fun+Reads too later. Comics, from Comixology- finished up Death of the Family a much hyped Batman ( Read more... )
-
Static analysis:Sometime an icon is just an icon?
I try to take advantage of the malware samples in my inbox every day to practice analysis and learn cool news tools. A previous post covers some of the basics.
This week I got an "eFAX" message with a zip file attachment that was quite suspicious so I dug right into it. It's defintiely a Win32 PE file (exe) inside the zip despite the Adobe-esque ( Read more... ) -
Recent online discussions about security awareness training and education effectiveness
Bruce Schneier's 19 March 2013 blog on DarkReading "On Security Awareness Training: The focus on training obscures the failures of security design" is making headlines with his bold assertion that "training users in security is generally a waste of time and that the money can be spent better elsewhere". The piece argues by examples from other ( Read more... ) -
All right Universe you win this round
In deference to the Universe's inimitable ability to make better idiots I've disabled anonymous comments on this journal.
If you have something to say, login to LJ or some OpenID provider or send me an email.
Apologies,
Mgmt
