Thursday, June 7, 2012

CISPA

found on memebase

don't bother asking who an unaccountable surveillance bill will be used against, eventually it'll be used against you.

i wouldn't stop either

found on the memebase voting page

some things are better left alone / untouched. whether it's a stranger on the side of the road or a strange link or attachment in your email.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

i don't always log into linkedin...

from here

inspired by the following tweet

i'm not the only one who thought of something like this, by the way. i almost made a "you're gonna have a bad time" meme instead but, really, who actually uses linkedin enough to have a bad time when it gets breached?

which way would you like to be violated today?

found on very demotivational

wow, don't just stop at the first gag here, this is a picture that keeps on giving.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

scumbag hash function

from here

seriously, WTF is MD5 doing being used anywhere today, nearly two decades after it's use in new systems was deprecated? why especially is it still being used by microsoft?

if you're building a system, maintaining an existing system, or just selecting a hash function from a dropdown list in a security program, don't choose this one!

beyond privacy fail

from here (source image)

... and for an added dose of creepy, those two toilets side by side like that look like a pair of eyes.

i see you...

Monday, June 4, 2012

how quickly we adapt

found on the memebase voting page

...because apparently we need to protect ourselves from bath salt zombies now.

with all due respect to this basketball player, though, if he's going to dress like that there's plenty of other choice cuts of meat available to an attacker.

trojan detected

found on memebase

although there are plenty of trojan horses these days, the greeks are not out to get us. only the very first one was theirs.

Friday, June 1, 2012

cry stuxnet and let slip the dogs of cyberwar

from here (source image)

well, if we're going to go over the top with stuxnet drama, lets go old-school. (and yeah, i know i'm not the first to think of the line in the caption - that's what happens with classics)

undetectable

from here (source images one and two)

this is not specifically about the flame worm, even though it came up most recently in a discussion about that worm. while it may be relatively easy to create malware that isn't detected yet, there's actually no such thing as undetectable malware - and even if it did exist, we would never know about.