In response to Michael at mcwresearch and Michael (LV) at terminal23, I'm surprised there has been no middle-ground adoption that gives users ability to format text (colors, bold, italic, underline, bullets, etc), without the nastiness of HTML and [...]
Posted by Marcin on Friday, December 29, 2006 in
Security.
Who else besides me thinks "ThreatCon" levels are bullshit? (not to be confused with vulnerability alerts) After checking out Slashdot this morning, I came across CERTStation, which attempts to aggregate current threat information into one page, entirely [...]
Posted by Marcin on Thursday, December 28, 2006 in
Intelligence and
Security.
On Christmas, I went to the movie theaters and saw The Good Shepherd. I liked it, but felt that the romance with Angelina Jolie and family issues took away from it. It did a good job showing how family and relationships are affected by secretive lives, [...]
Posted by Marcin on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 in
Intelligence.
Alright, I just have to respond to this opinion regarding Social network users have ruined their privacy, forever. Just about anyone can read what's posted onto social networking websites like MySpace and FaceBook. 'Anyone' includes the intended audience [...]
Posted by Marcin on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 in
Security.
Following everyone else and their "Security Predictions of 2007," I have some predictions of my own: I will be graduating in August with a Bachelor's Degree I will be looking for an entry-level position in security These are two predictions that I am [...]
Posted by Marcin on Saturday, December 23, 2006 in
School and
Security.
For those who know me personally, will know I have barely any time for games. I always say that us network security geeks shouldn't be playing games, leave that to the smelly game design kids (j/k with ya guys). Well, here are a couple games I do approve [...]
Posted by Marcin on Saturday, December 23, 2006 in
Security.
A new case in my coverage of espionage stories, the Houston Chronicle is reporting this time a Chinese engineer working in Silicon Valley is indicted on 36 felony counts, including economic espionage to benefit a foreign government and various military [...]
Posted by Marcin on Friday, December 15, 2006 in
Intelligence and
News.
The JSF (I like JSF better than F-35 Lightning II), has completed all its taxi tests this week. I had the incredible opportunity of interning at Pratt & Whitney, the manufacturer of the F-135 turbofan.. and I have to say I'm a fanboy. I love these two [...]
Posted by Marcin on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 in
Defense.
Yikes, the reps at Verizon need to be trained in elementary mathematics. George Vaccaro definitely has more patience than I do. Best quote in the audio clip at ~15:33 ... Andrea: What do you mean .002 dollars? George: Do you recognize that there's a [...]
Posted by Marcin on Saturday, December 9, 2006 in
Intelligence.
I've noticed a lot of discussion around news(some new, some old) articles this week related to "increased insider threats". To quote my own Slashdot post: "Viktor Cherkashin, a former KGB officer states in his book Spy Handler, people most often commit [...]
Posted by Marcin on Friday, December 8, 2006 in
Links and
Security.
From the nmap-dev mailing list: From: Fyodor <fyodor_at_insecure.org> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 20:19:00 -0800 Hi Everyone, I just posted the binaries for 4.20! Woohoo! This is the first "stable" release in almost 6 months, and contains tons of important [...]
Posted by Marcin on Friday, December 8, 2006 in
Links and
Security.
Get right down to it! F-Secure has posted this letter asking domain registrars to double-check the names people register for domains to help combat phishing. The example they give is just one of many that go wild: Like, say, somebody trying to register a [...]
Posted by Marcin on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 in
Links and
Security.
A couple students at my school hacked our Christmas tree. You can control it. You'll have to open up two browser windows to view the cameras and control it simultaneously(to prevent abuse). It's been featured on Make and some more pictures here. The web [...]
Posted by Marcin on Monday, December 4, 2006 in
Links and
Tech.
I've been seeing stories about the Nike+Ipod sport kit and how researchers have come up with a way to track people wearing them. This is nothing new, people have been able to do this for quite some time, called SIGINT (signals intelligence). You've been [...]
Posted by Marcin on Saturday, December 2, 2006 in
Security.
