http://blog.illurity.com Know what's happening, and affect it Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:10:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whatever side you’re on, an undeniable effect of the ongoing debate over the reality of cyberwarfare is the infiltration of the term “cyberwar” into our vernacular. We have all gradually come to accept “cyber” as the fifth present or potential domain of warfare after land, sea, air, and space. We ... http://blog.illurity.com/?p=156 By now, no one with electricity hasn't heard about the NSA data-center that is planned for Utah. First mention of it was seen in the wild as far back as May 2009 in H.R. 2346 ("Making Supplemental Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2009, and for Other Purposes" ... http://blog.illurity.com/?p=118 As a follow-up to a post from February 2009, I'm mostly happy to comment on the recent progress that's been made toward the establishment of National breach notification laws. As reported on November 5, 2009 by GovInfoSecurity.com, "the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved two companion bills that would require businesses ... http://blog.illurity.com/?p=104 On July 24, 2009 Trina Thompson sued her alma mater, Monroe College for the full cost of her tuition after graduating with a bachelor of business administration degree in information technology. Why? Because she couldn’t find a job. Before sympathizing with Thompson’s claim that “they [the counselors] have not tried ... http://blog.illurity.com/?p=96 While Solera Networks’ technology is commonly used in network forensic examinations for the purposes of incident review and response, we are also often asked if our platform can produce “court admissible” evidence. Before this can be addressed, a distinction must first be made between the two main classes of electronic ... http://blog.illurity.com/?p=86 There are rumors circulating around SANS and full-disclosure circles that there is a 0day SSH exploit in the wild that might be announced sometime around the upcoming Black Hat event. Whether or not it is true is to be seen, but beyond the question of "is it or isn't it," ... http://blog.illurity.com/?p=80 Making predictions is hard, especially about the future. In descending order, when predictions come true, it is likely because of: 1) some undisclosed foreknowledge of the event; 2) discernible writings on walls, patterns, trajectories, trends, or nigh inevitabilities; 3) pure random luck; 4) voices, visions, and other sorts of esoteric ... http://blog.illurity.com/?p=79 Experts have issued a warning of an impending epidemic of swine flu warnings. The number of victims of these thinly disguised, commercially-motivated warnings is expected to exceed the number of victims of the actual swine flu by many orders of magnitude. “Be leery of anyone using the phrase ‘orders of ... http://blog.illurity.com/?p=78 Not a month after the Heartland breach, we now have reports of another malware-driven payment system breach of as-yet unknown proportions. Despite the proliferation of anti-threat devices and well-intentioned compliance programs such as PCI, we continue to see an increase in the number and cost of reported data breaches. The ... http://blog.illurity.com/?p=76 The 1980’s marked the beginning of what many consider to be the Information Age. A quarter of a century into it, my waning hope that science might someday have a fighting chance against superstition is somewhat renewed by the fact that President-elect Obama is planning to appoint the first Chief ... http://blog.illurity.com/?p=75