super cyber security

while some online attacks are specific to particular browsers/versions, not all are, and just using safari on a windows machine is definitely not going to keep you safe.

sometimes i feel like somebody's watching me

from here (source image)

i suppose i must be showing my age with the caption i added to what i gather is actually a street art installation in prague. somehow i feel like it's pretty close to what the artist was trying to say, though.

the more things change...

from here (image source one, two, and three)

the more things change, the more they stay the same. some companies just shouldn't be trusted, and compromising customer machines with DRM is a pretty good indicator.

(inspiration)

totally rad security

found on very demotivational

just in case the term pornoscanner wasn't dissuasive enough. i wonder when we'll start to learn what the longer-term effects on the TSA agents who have to stand near those things will be.

yo dawg, i heard you like updates

found on memebase

keeping your software up to date has never been more recursive.

security olympics

from here (image source one, two, and three)

well, maybe there need to be a few more security guards than athletes, but nearly 4 times as many? that makes it very difficult to believe the focus is on athletics.

POTUS on passwords

there's some contradictory advice in this speech bubble song (it is a song. check it, you'll see the rhymes) such as using a passphrase and not using dictionary words (what kind of phrase doesn't use dictionary words?) but overall there's still some good advice here.

when you see it...

this isn't a photoshop, it's a screenshot of nigeriagoogle dot com. it appears to be a prank since you can't actually enter anything in the search box, but i still don't trust it (maybe i'm paranoid). can you imagine someone trying this google/419 scam for real though?

i need a dan kaminsky

@SecurityHumor asked for someone to find this for him (i assume it's a him). i don't think i ever encountered this parody of the iphone vs htc evo video but it is pretty funny.

didn't see that one coming

from here (image source one, two, and three)

well, i guess that's how careful apple is about keeping malware out of the app store, folks - they don't even do a simple virus scan.