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Spectacular Fear
Now I really am worried. Deep in the new Black Report from Nuix (I wrote about it here) is this statement from Terry L. Sult; Chief of Police, Hampton, Virginia. He is lamenting the process of...
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Get my goat
If there’s one thing guaranteed to get my goat, it is this kind of claptrap you find all over LinkedIn. Seriously? Has Dr. Ken Jennings really discovered the difference between success and failure?...
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Gaming and the Future of Entertainment Media
The Identity of Gaming In January of this year, one of the leading figures of the gaming industry, Hideo Kojima, predicted that video gaming would merge with other forms of entertainment – novels,...
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Review: “Zero Days”
Zero Days (2016) Director: Alex Gibney Participant Media, Showtime Documentary Films, Magnolia Home Entertainment Overall, this can be seen as a reasonable assessment of the events, and agencies, that...
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Trumpton Tower: a modern slapstick
In true slapstick style, Trump sticks it to GCHQ, and GCHQ slaps down Trump. All over what did or did not happen in Trumpton Tower. Background On 4 March, the realDonaldTrump tweeted an accusation that...
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Integrity
Regardless of any personal political preference, I have found recent political discourse, particularly in the United States, profoundly disturbing on a professional level. I am currently a security...
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Duplicitous Doublespeak
Part of what I like about ITSecurity.co.uk is this Technology / Political mix. In addition, if you will bear with me, I will tie this post back to technology. We have fully entered the Orwellian...
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Will Virtual Reality Technology see a second generation?
2016’s slew of Virtual Reality devices are now being considered ‘Generation 1’ in terms of VR. This isn’t an entirely accurate viewpoint. Even discounting earlier attempts at Virtual Reality not...
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Trump, Brexit and the Norns
2016 is likely to prove a pivotal year in contemporary history. Two major votes saw the US election of President Trump and the UK exit from the European Union. It was a right-wing populist swing for...
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Book Review: The Hardware Hacker
The Hardware Hacker by Andrew Huang is not quite what you would expect from looking at the cover. There might be an expectation of page after page of schematics, code, circuit diagrams and…well,...
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Injunction of Technology (IoT)
Soon coming to the Internet of Things (IoT) is the Injunction of Technology (IoT). In another post I noted that my WiFi router’s power brick had a UL certification, yet the actual WiFi router had...
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All Hands to the Pump (and Dump)
A few years ago, even before I started working directly with vendors in the security industry, ‘Pump and Dump’ scams were a major nuisance. Here’s a description from a paper Andrew Lee and I wrote...
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Artificial Intelligence in the Real and Virtual Worlds
Artificial Intelligence and Games While most of the tech media’s ‘next big thing’ buzz is still focused on VR, that technology is beginning to settle into the early days of its role. Gaming and...
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Still Pumping and Dumping
Pump and Dump spam campaign still piling on the improbabilities. The post Still Pumping and Dumping appeared first on ITsecurity.
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Did democracy win with Macron? Doubtful
My first thoughts on Macron’s victory were that democracy had prevailed. But second thoughts made me wonder. We’re too accustomed to thinking of democracy in old-fashioned Left (socialist) and Right...
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WannaCryptor: XP, Win8, WinServer 2003 patches
Even XP, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2003 systems can now be patched against the vulnerability exploited by WannaCrypt. Patching is highly recommended!The post WannaCryptor: XP, Win8, WinServer 2003...
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WannaCryptor ‘Afterthoughts’…
…Not that we’re exactly in the post-WannaCryptor era yet. But forgive me if you’ve heard enough of the saga of the ransomware ESET calls Win32/Filecoder.WannaCryptor.D (after just a few days, I...
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May Sketch: Reactions to Macron’s Victory
World Leaders’ Reactions to Macron’s Presidential Victory As reported by Yahoo Share This:The post May Sketch: Reactions to Macron’s Victory appeared first on ITsecurity.
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May must be out in June: our last chance
Let’s not beat about the bush — Britain was tricked into voting for Brexit by an establishment determined to break Brussels’ interference in its increasingly hard-line and authoritarian policies....
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My June Vote
I must repeat what I said before the last general election in the UK: I shall not vote. I dismiss as absurd the thoughtless claims that I have a duty to vote. I do not. I have a duty to follow my...
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