Monday, April 22, 2013

i don't always choose a boat for my escape route...


that's a rather nice 'most interesting man in the world' joke by the jester at the boston bombing suspect's expense.

Friday, April 19, 2013

striking fear into the hearts of worms and grubs

from here (source image)

i think the plan here was to make the bad guys give themselves away by laughing too hard. i'm not sure what else you can expect from patrol hens.

threat landscape t-shirt



there's some nice symbolism here (although it's hard to see at this scale), and you can find the symbols individually on other shirts and mugs and stuff. i'm kinda jealous i didn't come up with these myself, but what matters is that someone did.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

everyone's a thought leader

from here

y'know, there are so many thought leaders i sometimes wonder if there's anybody left to follow them.

lions and tigers and canadian geese, oh my!



i guess we shouldn't feel so bad about our own inability to accurately gauge risk.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

brute force? you keep using that term...

from here

it's difficult to take reports of the wordpress "brute force" attack seriously when it's using a password list. brute force attacks don't use lists, dictionary attacks do.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

two ideas are too much for some people

from here

don't get me wrong - out of band authentication is a cool idea, and it has some nice properties, but receiving a phone call is not the same as verifying a token.

don't trust the internet

found on failblog

this guy may not be saying don't trust the internet, but i certainly am. don't trust the internet.

Monday, April 15, 2013

do as they say, not as they do

from here (source tweet and webpage)

thanks to rob for showing us that even OWASP can't do OWASP properly.

this just in...



this just in... be on the lookout for the crime clown. he is considered fat and extremely stupid. at least part of him may already have made it to another jurisdiction (assuming he's managed to stay mostly upright).