Should We Call It The 914 Scam?

from here (source reddit post)

Thanks to Alex Girard for bringing this interesting twist on the classic 419 scam to my attention.

Canada, Friendly With Everyone

found on the meta picture

Someone thinks this is Canadians being nice, but I'm a Canadian and I know better. See the guy on the deck keeping an eye out? This is a trap to catch the perpetrator - a physical honeypot if you will.

Technologically Impaired FBI Director

from here (source image)

The front door is the way people get into their own homes. If the FBI wants to use the front door to get into mobile devices, I think they should have to figure out the passwords to those devices. I can't imagine any other reasonable definition of "front door". Everything else is a backdoor.

Clippy On Metadata

tweeted by Julia Powles

Thanks to Julia Powles for tweeting this cartoon depicting Microsoft's Clippy analyzing a draft of a surveillance bill and offering the bureaucrat behind the keyboard some assistance.

The Namening

from here (source image)

As if Heartbleed and Shellshock weren't bad enough, now we have one called POODLE, and that's actually a fully fleshed out acronym. Does it seem to anyone else like we're spending way too much time marketing these bugs?

We Didn't Really Need Those Other Things

tweeted by Sham Jaff

Thanks to Sham Jaff for tweeting this cartoon depicting the cannibalization of ideals in order to construct security.

Disabling SSL 3 For Fun And Profit

When you give vulnerabilities weird sounding names, weird sounding advice is bound to follow.

Thanks to Troy Hunt and Eric Lawrence for the information and inspiration. A shame Chrome users don't have a setting they can change. Hopefully Google will release an update soon.

Let's Get Ready To Cyber-Rumble

tweeted by @CyberIntell

Thanks to @CyberIntell for tweeting this very apropos response to what was, frankly, an absurd question for @Symantec to ask (who would win in a fight).

POODLE: Dat Acronym

from here

I understand that POODLE actually stands for something, but I still don't understand why they settled on that name.

iPhone ATM PIN code hack

Well that's a little scary. It's a good thing the countermeasure for this is so easy - just put your hand on all the buttons after you're done entering your code so that they all become the same temperature. Thanks to Christofer Hoff for bringing this to my attention.