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Smoking guns and glass houses in Russia Vs Clinton
In the ongoing saga of Russia Vs Clinton, a declassified version of the US Intelligence Community assessment of Russian involvement in the 2016 US election has now been published. But if you hoped for...
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The Past and Future of Gamification
For many decades, a running theme in sci-fi and speculative fiction has been the idea of complete, global automation of all production. Explored over and over again in both positive and negative...
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Windows 10 profile problems
I run Windows 10 Pro. I’m really getting to hate it. Latest issue: not being able to get the profile (that is, the local account or desktop) up and running. A couple of weeks ago, I couldn’t log on to...
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Key Card Ransomware: News versus FUD
On the 28th January 2017, a news site reported that Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked out of rooms. The story initially claimed that a ransomware gang had been able to compromise systems in...
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The Nintendo Switch and the Future of Console Gaming
Gaming’s first big event of 2017 will be the launch of the Nintendo Switch at the beginning of March. The first major home console release since the Xbox One in 2013, the market performance of the...
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How vendors empower weak security
I wrote about this before in a post called “Big Things and Small Things”. I documented how two very large companies failed to support Information Security in a corporate environment with even a basic...
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The Watson problem
There is a problem with Watson. Don’t get me wrong; I love Watson, or at least the idea of Watson. For such an incredibly complex operation the concept is clean and simple. You take a great big...
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Social Engineering v. Malware: Remembering VBS/Loveletter
VBS/Loveletter demonstrated that sometimes the quality of malcode doesn't matter if the social engineering hits the spot.The post Social Engineering v. Malware: Remembering VBS/Loveletter appeared...
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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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