Wednesday, November 22, 2017

So it was a snooty Nigerian prince?

from here

It's almost never a very sophisticated attacker, unless your metric for very sophisticated includes typing with more than 2 fingers.

Checking my door now

found on Imgflip

I have a confession to make. Sometimes when I leave my home in the morning I discover that the door isn't locked. I've certainly considered the possibility that someone might break in while I slept but it never occurred to me that they might still be there when I wake up. Good thing there's 24h security in my building.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

HR is not amused

from here

Honestly, even with an HR department that isn't insane and/or completely stupid, work really isn't the kind of place I'd want to be thinking those kinds of thoughts. It would just be weird.

Not even his friends and family

found on Imgur

Email is used for so much junk these days it's a wonder any email is taken seriously anymore.

Monday, November 20, 2017

Grandma fixes everything

from here

If only Grandma could fix Internet privacy. Sadly it's not as easy as mending socks, although I suppose some kind of knitted article could be placed over your webcam, so there's that.

Whenever there's a new privacy setting

found on Meme Center

I couldn't find the true original at Shoeboxblog.com, unfortunately, but don't let that stop you from checking if there are any new Facebook privacy settings you don't remember that need to be turned off.

Friday, November 17, 2017

Peter Piper on security

from here

That's right, botnets are not nets for catching bots.... and yet, I think if you really wanted to, you could probably find a way to use a botnet to catch other bots.

Maybe it's confused by all the BACN

found on ImgFlip
This is one of those things that makes spam filtering hard - messages that under other circumstances would definitely qualify as spam but because you intentionally signed up to receive them they aren't spam (they're bacn). How is a spam filter supposed to know you want to see that junk?

Thursday, November 16, 2017

LiveCD Girls Girls Girls

from here
The reason booting from a LiveCD is good for online banking is that it provides an environment that couldn't have been infected during past usage because the CD is read-only. It occurs to me that an environment you can be fairly certain won't get infected in the present would likewise be of benefit when visiting sites that have traditionally been considered "unsafe".

Just don't do both in the same boot session.

Who even remembers the NSA anymore?

found on Quick Meme

With everything that's been going on in the US government, has anyone remembered to keep an eye on what the NSA is doing? I have a feeling that the importance of intelligence oversight may have gotten lost in amongst the importance of a variety of other things.