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GAG ME: Danger room on Darpa Begs Hackers: Secure Our Networks, End ‘Season...

Oh yeah I blew a gasket. Darpa Begs Hackers: Secure Our Networks, End ‘Season of Darkness’ | Danger Room | Wired.com. I read the Danger room story with dread. I never get invited to these things. Well...

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Information theory and the need for deep thinking

On my two hour run today I was thinking about information security and the research vectors that I see within the discipline. I don’t publish very much so I have little effect on the space. I was...

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The lost art of making do

Let’s face it, we all like things that are new and shiny. When given a choice most of us pick new over old. The ongoing economic recession has made it more challenging for all of us to get the new and...

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Woes me information (cyber) security is hard

Lots of discussion in the mainstream press about every fortune 500 being hacked, the <insert name> government has hacked us into smithereens. The world is ending. We need to do <insert...

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LinkedIN profile is toast….

I did away with another social media service. Buh bye LinkedIn. Why? In the what is becoming an old adage, if you aren’t paying for the product you are the product, I couldn’t figure out what LinkedIn...

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Cyberspace is NOT a man made domain

The fallacy I read on a daily basis about cyberspace being a man made domain just peeves me off. What the assertion that cyberspace is the first man made domain is actually doing is mixing up the tools...

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Cyber Security versus Information Security

Over at NovaSec @grecs has a post titled Cyber Security versus Information Security. He acknowledges that there are some problems in the lack of definitions. This has been a long time (eight decades)...

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If the job sucks be awesome

I see a lot of discussion at hacker cons or security cons depending on your predilection that says something to the effect “I’m burned out and drink to much.” The information security community has a...

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Comparing two stories… Dope Smoking STEM

Comey: FBI ‘Grappling’ With Hiring Policy Concerning Marijuana “James B. Comey said Monday that if the FBI hopes to continue to keep pace with cyber criminals, the organization may have to loosen up...

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Reflections on hackers and graduate education

This isn’t going to be a long post on how to become a hacker. This is to long didn’t read and in not reading make silly comments that have nothing to do with the content long. Chances are if you are a...

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Threat actor zero (TA0)

When Mandiant came out with the APT1 report the world was shattered into two camps. In the first camp was a group of people who were happy to have more information on the bad guys entering their...

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The Social Media Plan: How Sam does it today

I am not rich or famous and most assuredly I am very average in intellect and capability. I have an on again and off again relationship with social media and networking. I am not what you would call a...

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Curmudgeon Information Security Officer

After reading the first third of “Disrupted; My Misadventure in the startup bubble” by Dan Lyons I realized that I had been marketing myself all wrong. Hiring managers like the little-emperors of China...

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Leadership: Putting strategy back into human interaction

We spend a lot of time talking about leadership where we think of it as getting people to do something through some form of incentive or disincentive. Simply churning and burning our way to action...

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You’re not in our industry WTF do you know about infosec?

This is more from my noisy search for my next windmill to tilt at in what will be the great success of helping an organization become more resilient, capable, and respected for the information security...

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