Happy creepy Valentines Day

from here

So as you might have guessed, there's all kinds of shenanigans you can get up to if you steal someone's phone number. Mobile phones are frequently used for authentication now so there's all sorts of accounts you'd be able to access and transactions you'd be able to authorize. Brian Krebs wrote last year about some ways you can help to protect yourself from this sort of thing.

We've got the best protection

found on Me.me

It's not a wall, or a fence, and I sure hope it doesn't cost $5.7B. I'd like to think it would provide actual protection, but coming from that guy you never know.

Don't you dare sneeze on me, human

from here

It sounds absurd, I know, but if they can encode malware into a DNA strand then, by the strangeness of computer science, there exists (at least in theory) a computer that would interpret my DNA as a virus, and another (theoretical) computer that would interpret your DNA as a virus, and so on and so forth.

For each sequence of symbols there exists a Turing machine for which that sequence is a virus.

It says it on the label so it must be true

found on Izismile

What a cunning plan. I'm sure no one will suspect anything.

I thought mono only made people sick

from here

Now I realize Mono isn't the malware here. It's a legitimate platform that enables a certain degree cross platform functionality. You know what also allowed things to be cross platform? Java - and look how that turned out. Java is notorious for being a vector of attack.

Even without the never-ending stream of vulnerabilities that came with Java, the simple act of allowing executables from a highly targeted platform (Windows) run on one whose defensive ecosystem isn't nearly as well developed is just asking for trouble. Especially now that the cat is out of the bag.

If he's not afraid, I'm not afraid

found on Dump A Day

A sign can be a perfectly good deterrent all by itself, as long as nothing contradicts it.

Don't let your IoT security spoil

from here

Even if browser-based interfaces do make it easier to control such devices, couldn't they be restricted to the local network? Why expose them to the entire world wide web?

How to annoy Facebook

found on the Art of Trolling

So, it might not be valid in your jurisdiction, but give it a try anyway. It couldn't hurt (unless you're Facebook)

You'd think identity thieves would take more care with their own

from here

Brian Krebs often has interesting stories about cybercriminals, but sometimes some of the details just stand way out, like an identity thief and SIM swapper who used his real name on a cybercrime forum. It's just a small detail in a much bigger story, but really who does that?

Good Guy Hacker

found on Imgur

I'm not sure the Good Guy Hacker meme has caught on yet, but the collection on Imgur is pretty good (even if some of them aren't exactly good guy sorts of things).