Month: August 2010
ceo, cfo, pants on fire?
A recently published research paper entitled “Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls” provides an interesting look at lies and the liars who tell them (in…
password strength take 2
A few days ago, I posted on the subject of password strength… and then I saw some new research on the issue from Georgia Tech which…
the great helium shortage of 2035?
It turns out that helium is important for more than party balloons and making our voices high and squeaky… and that we may run out…
this conversation may be recorded, just cause i wanna…
From the US Federal Courts (via ThreatLevel)… it turns out that recording a conversation on your iPhone (and I assume any other device capable of…
under the sea…
A while back, I did a post about the global undersea communications network which forms the underpinning of the global Internet. Here’s a great way…
it turns out that some pens are at least as mighty as some swords…
Of course, if you are using one of those new fangled high speed digital computers with their cutting edge (in more than one way) floppy…
154 killed by malware?
Did a malware infection play a part in killing 154 people in the crash of Spanair 5022 at Madrid’s Barajas airport? According to a story…
so long, SAS70!
Since 1992, many organizations have relied on SAS70 audit reports to determine whether their service providers’ controls are appropriately designed and effectively implemented. In the…
google and the government
The US Federal Government has given Google the FISMA certification needed to allow government agencies to outsource their (non secret) email and calendar systems to…
truecrypt – disk encryption for everyone
It is amazing how much (sensitive) information we can now carry around every day. I have 8 gigs of all sorts of interesting stuff…
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