Now we know why they're so virus prone

from here

Computers running Microsoft operating systems (be they Windows or DOS) were not the only ones to get viruses, but viruses certainly were more prolific on them than any other kind of system. I wonder why that might be.

Jack Vale: Scamming the elderly online

Watch on YouTube

Wow. I knew scammers were greedy, underhanded assholes, but if this is real then that characterization is an understatement. Scamming the elderly is one thing, but trying to take them for virtually everything they have? Despicable.

Do you practice safe hex?

from here

There is a school of thought that says a certain kind of browsing is responsible for a great deal of the nastiness people found on their computers, and part of safe hex involved avoiding unsafe sites or at least doing something to mitigate the threat.

But do people even know the term "safe hex" anymore? It was big in the 90's, but it seems like the security community has opted (foolishly in my opinion) for the "users should just be invisibly protected without having to know anything" model so nobody talks about safe hex anymore. Frankly, if people can't be automatically protected from something as simple as biological viruses, I'm not sure how we can expect that kind of protection against intelligent adversaries.

On the other hand, I'm not even sure what constitutes safe hex now. The computing landscape has become so fragmented, it's difficult to keep up with what the best practices are for this platform or that technology, and the more things that get computers put into them the worse that is going to get.

That's not how any of this works

found on Failbook

1. You should know what your favourite anything is. If you don't then you don't have a favourite
2. If you don't know the answer now then you won't remember it in the future when you need it
3. Other people aren't supposed to choose the answer to your security question for you, it's supposed to be personal
4. If other people know the answer to your security question then it's not very secure
5. etc...

It's hard to believe so much security fail can fit in such a small Facebook status.

Let's see what kitty's been up to today

from here

We don't even try to hide the data collection capabilities of smart devices for animals, why should we be surprised when the smart devices we use have many of the same capabilities?

The security clause has security claws

found on Pinterest

There's actually a ton of cool security cat memes on this Pinterest page. As near as I can tell, many of them came from the Security Awareness Company's Security Cat line of posts, but I can't find the exact link for this (hence the Pinterest link).

Achy Breaky Pacemakers

from here

One of the lessons from this story is that security problems aren't going to simply go away just because they're inconvenient for the business. You will eventually have to deal with it and I can't think of many ways of dealing with it that are worse than waiting a year to issue a warning about problems with pacemakers.

Stop reading my statuses!

found on Some Ecards

What could possibly go wrong?

from here

If this is the kind of fore-thought we can expect from the new FCC, I think we're going to need to find an alternative interpretation for those 3 letters.

A question for all the ransomware victims

found on Imgflip

If you've got ransomware, this is a question you need to ask yourself before you decide to pay the ransom.