Borepatch

 Dad (who was a history professor) liked to say that History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.  I get an incredible sens...

I was not expecting this : Germany's infosec office (BSI) is sounding the alarm after finding that 92 percent of the nation's Exchan...

Well, the security of the freight train , that is: When independent security researcher Neil Smith reported a vulnerability in a comms stand...

This is my shocked face.  I mean who would have seen that coming ? But the cameras are insecure by default, which means that they are insecu...

When did the EU.gov get so, well, stupid ? The EU has issued its plans to keep the continent's denizens secure and among the pages of bu...

This keeps coming up over and over.  The latest example is GoDaddy : GoDaddy has failed to protect its web-hosting platform with even basic ...

So their live streaming of the Mike Tyson fight last night was an unmitigated disaster.  But come on - you'd think that Netflix IT would...

It's been oddly quiet after the election - no cities burning, that sort of thing.  And this is interesting : Only anecdotal but my girlf...

Holy cow, I've been in this industry for decades and can't remember a time when everyone knew that you encrypted the damn passwords*...

Navy finds hidden Starlink dish on ship : Still, the ambassador had nothing on senior enlisted crew members of the littoral combat ship USS ...

SolarWinds issues security patch to eliminate hard coded password : SolarWinds left hardcoded credentials in its Web Help Desk product that ...

The FBI Inspector General has issued a scathing report about the Bureau's lackadaisical  attitude towards protecting sensitive data : Th...

Cybersecurity Lab didn't use antivirus : Dr. Emmanouil "Manos" Antonakakis runs a Georgia Tech cybersecurity lab and has att...

Electronic communications rely on the concept of a Carrier Wave .  Basically, this is a well-defined electronic signal that all devices can ...

I'm struggling to understand what the Administration is trying to accomplish (other than a Press Conference).  If they ban 80% lowers, p...

John Michael Greer looks at the bumbling and incoherence seen from the current Administrations and ponders how they can be so incompetent.  ...

Politeness is a sign of dignity, not of subservience. - Theodore Roosevelt  But everybody can tell if you're an asshole. Divemedic poste...

It's a truism in the software development industry that if architects designed buildings the way programmers wrote code, the first woodp...

The Roman Empire was falling.  The Fifth Century was a disaster for the Empire, but it didn't help when Attila the Hun invaded Italy in ...

It seems that it was "designed by clowns" : The release of a batch of internal messages has raised more questions about the saf...