Sometimes you have to see it to believe it. I snapped this picture (as you can see from my reflection) at an undisclosed location in the greater Toronto area. This document shredder truck had the engine running. The window was rolled down. And the management panel was, as you can see, open to anyone...

Sophos, you know I love ya (full disclosure; I’m not a client) but, damn. This will not win me over. I realize that you thought this was amusing ($DEITY, I hope so) but, honestly, it’s pretty weak. To say nothing of the fact it was delivered by courier who REQUIRED a signature....

“Just because I don’t share the same view, that’s just my birth defect” -helmet Give ‘em hell and have a great weekend all! Signed, Dave Click here to subscribe to Liquidmatrix Security Digest!. And now, the news… Tony the (Paper) Tiger | Layer 8 (the wrath of shr...

Stumbled across this code on a “hack the password” website. Thanks to mubix for showing another gem of a site that led me here. var password; var pass1=”magic”; password=prompt(’Enter Password ‘,”); if (password==pass1) alert(’Access Granted’); e...

The dust has cleared. The Gmailageddon now subsiding I emerged from the bunker to do battle with potential zombie hordes…and search for any survivors. The madness of the great Gmail meltdown of ‘09 (again) had the tubes of the internet all a flutter this morning. Seriously though, why is...

In these troubled economic times I find salespeople and PR firms pitching opts and spins with a new urgency and a borderline desperation. I’ve seen a marked uptick in the Coke vs. Pepsi nonsense of why $VENDOR_A vendor thinks their product is better than $VENDOR_B. But, then there are the one&...

Sometimes motivation becomes an issue. Exercise and diet may be all ship shape and work might actually not suck and still you can find it hard to get excited about things. Just over a week ago I was in Washington DC for Shmoocon. That was a motivator. But, now I have a motivational hangover. I swear...

I seldom have a solid few minutes to myself these days to ruminate on the ills of the world. I managed to string together a thought that has been eating away at my frontal lobe. Let me start by pointing out that after the fall of communism in Russia there was a glut of talented computer programmers ...

In today’s edition of, “how not to get a recommendation from a former employer”… From The Chronicle of Higher Education: University of Florida officials now say that the message was sent by a former employee of Mobile Campus, the vendor that the university uses to operate the...

Sweet merciful crap. Brian Krebs has a story today about a breach at the payment processor, Heartland Payment Systems, which happened last year. That in of itself would be bad but, …it gets worse. From Washington Post: Heartland called U.S. Secret Service and hired two breach forensics teams t...