Avast, me hearties! It’s time four t’ annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day #rstats post! (OK, I won’t make you suffer continuous pirate-speak for the entire post) I tried to be a bit more practical this year and have two treasuRe chests for you to (hopefully) enjoy. A Package Full o’ Pirates I’ve covered… Continue reading
Post Category → Humor
Wait Wait…Don’t Pwn Me! (SOURCE Boston) Transcript & Thank You!
For those that wanted to play along at home, I’ve cleaned up the text and made the Wait Wait…Don’t Pwn Me! closing segment of SOURCE Boston 2013 available for download [PDF]. The video crew had cameras running, so keep checking the @SOURCEconf web site as it’ll probably get posted as they crank through all of… Continue reading
RIM of Destruction
(With apologies to Barry McGuire & P.F. Sloan) To a familiar tune… RIM of Destruction The mobile world, it is explodin’ executives flarin’, app updates loadin’ you’re Bold’s enough to sell but no one’s buyin’ no one believes in your PlayBook, but that’s what your totin’ and even the Curve won’t keep you a floatin’… Continue reading
You’re The Mayor of FUDville!
Rik Ferguson, Director Security Research at Trend Micro, had a great tweet early last Tueday morning calling out potential FUD in an article over at The Metro: Given the plethora of FUD-dropping in the article, I could only think of one way to do it justice, and that was a paragraph-by-paragraph check-in via: Every FUD-check… Continue reading
RLRAA – Real Life Risk Assessment Acronyms
UPDATE: I have intentionally cross-posted this to my SIRA blog since the combined wit & intelligence of the folks there trumps anything I could do alone here. All the following newly-minted risk assessment types have been inspired by actual situations. Hopefully you get to stick to just the proper OCTAVE/FAIR/NIST/etc. ones where you practice. HARA… Continue reading