In Twitter chats, conference halls, reader comments, and the interminable flow of vendor "scareware" white papers, I keep hearing about IT pros' fear of their companies falling apart because someone lost their smartphone or an employee copied and pasted the intellectual crown jewels in an email from their Mac. It's easy to deride these anxieties as paranoia, but it's hard to convince IT pros -- for whom securing information is what they get hired and fired for -- to relax.
Friday, 19 October 2012
'Pinkie Pie' hacker trips up Chrome at Hack in the Box
It appears the hacker known as "Pinkie Pie" produced the first Chrome vulnerability at the Hack In the Box conference on Wednesday, just ahead of the deadline for the competition this afternoon.
Google security officials said they are in the process of verifying the vulnerability, which if valid, will net Pinkie Pie $60,000, the top reward for the second Pwnium competition held this year. The reward goes to someone who creates a full Chrome exploit using bugs only in Chrome itself.
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Don't turn your back on HTML5
http://www.infoworld.com/t/html5/dont-turn-your-back-html5-205174?source=rss_infoworld_blogsBox seeks broad integration with third-party Web apps, sites
Box announced on Tuesday an HTML5 framework that makes it possible for customers and other vendors to fully integrate features of its file sharing and cloud storage software into websites and enterprise applications.
The framework, called Box Embed, is pre-built code that can be deployed on an iframe, bringing Box's functionality into the user interface of Web-based applications, intranets, extranets, wikis, blogs, and the like.
Which freaking PaaS should I use?
Most of the buzz around the cloud has centered on infrastructure as a service (IaaS). However, IaaS is no longer good enough. Sure, you can forgo buying servers and run everything virtually on Amazon's EC2 server farm. So what? You still have to manage it, and to do that you'll have a growing IT bureaucracy. Companies that want to focus on writing their code and not have to think about application servers at all are now looking to platform as a service (PaaS).
Thursday, 18 October 2012
What's in a vote? Only your entire personal profile
You say you enjoy a lobster dinner with a fine wine accompanied by some light dinner jazz? You must be an Obama supporter. Would you rather drink beer, eat nachos, and attend the Fiesta Bowl? Then you are clearly a Romney fan.
If you think I'm being stereotypical, think again. I'm just taking advantage of modern political data mining techniques.
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WikiLeaks Goes Behind Paywall, Anonymous Cries Foul
Secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has moved millions of documents behind a paywall, prompting blowback from elements of an underground ally, the hacking group Anonymous, including one well-known member to conclude that it “cannot support anymore what WikiLeaks has become.” Upon clicking ...
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/wikileaks-paywall-anonymous/
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