Feed Link Has Moved

Feedburner has borked the old RSS feed for the site and has completely disassociated me from it (meaning it’s no longer in my Google Feedburner admin options and they won’t let me re-claim it). So… the new feed link is http://rud.is/b/feed/atom/. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Businessweek Infographic Illustrates The Pounding We Took In 2011

Another #spiffy tip from @MetricsHulk: Evan Applegate put together a great & simple infographic for Businessweek that illustrates the number and size of 2011 data breaches pretty well. (Click for larger version) The summary data (below the timeline bubble chart) shows there was a 37.4% increase in reported incidents and over 260 million records exposed/stolen… Continue reading

What Can We Learn From The @lulzsec senate.gov Hack Dump?

What can the @lulzsec senate.gov dump tell us about how the admins maintained their system/site? [code light=”true”]SunOS a-ess-wwwi 5.10 Generic_139555-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise[/code] means they haven’t kept up with OS patches. [-1 patch management] [code light=”true”]celerra:/wwwdata 985G 609G 376G 62% /net/celerra/wwwdata[/code] tells us they use EMC NAS kit for web content. The ‘last‘ dump shows… Continue reading