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Cyber – The 13th Event?
The featured topic on the cover of the June 2010 issue of Scientific American has the title “12 Events That Will Change Everything – And Not in the Way You Think.” The events, and the likelihood of them happening (according to the authors of the pieces on each event), are as follows, with catastrophes highlighted: The [...]
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Reply to Jack Jones on the Meaning of “Risk”
In a recent post to his blog, Jack Jones asks, “What’s ‘a risk’ anyway?” This is a great question, especially since a lot of people working in information security seem to use the word in a variety of ways, ways that often violate common usage among risk professionals. Perhaps this is because many information security [...]
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H1N1 Threat Overblown? Information Security Relevance? A Logic Proof
(Kenneth F. Belva) “H1N1 was totally overblown. Nothing really terrible happened. No one suffered a pandemic and the resulting deaths were less in number than the deaths from the regular Read more…
Network Solutions “Hacked Account” Demonstrates Incompetence
(Kenneth F. Belva) When in doubt, claim the account was hacked. That appears to be the reasoning of a Network Solutions Technical Support Representative. Normally I do not write about other Read more…
US Drones Hack: It’s The Same Old Story
(Kenneth F. Belva) CNN reports that Iraqi insurgents were able to hack and view live feeds from US Spy Drones. The vulnerability was a non-technical one. The article summarized the issue as Read more…
DHS Security Control May Improve Airport Economy
(Kenneth F. Belva) It turns out that banning water on airplanes may help improve the vendor economy in airports. The idea is simple. Since passengers may not carry water onto airplanes when Read more…
Video: Hard Drives – Watch Them Shred
(Kenneth F. Belva) While it’s the dream of almost every information security department to send their hard drives off to the shredder to destroy sensitive data, few of us have actually Read more…
Being Evil versus Doing Harm
(C. Warren Axelrod) Mea culpa. …. Craig Heath rightly states that the Google motto is “Don’t be evil” and not “Do no harm,” as I had misquoted in my column Read more…
Google Doing Harm
(C. Warren Axelrod) As we all know, Google’s motto is (was?) “Do no harm” … which, it appears, they took directly from the modern version of the physician’s Read more…