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Brave New World of Security Vulnerabilities and Public Relations Responses to...

There is a new and significant security problem in the wild with Microsoft Internet explorer.  I am not writing about the security of it, rather the timeline and the public relations and crisis...

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Riya – Can I get an Opt Out Option to Protect My Identity Please?

I am a fan of Riya and in particular of the great PR being generated, in an ethical manner, by Tara Hunt.  She is articulate and isn’t afraid of calling someone an "ass clown" when warranted. But I do...

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Excellent Use of Corporate Blogging – Over My Dead Body

A frequent question from public relations professionals when discussing "corporate blogging" is "who should blog?"  Lutz is a good case study with good dialog like this, as are McDonalds and channel 9...

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Uninstall Facebook Applications Internationally Day (UFAID) September 1 2009

I am a fan of Facebook. I enjoy using it and it has brought me closer to a lot of awesome people. We are even approaching 1000 people on our Facebook Fan Page! But I can’t handle Facebook’s lack of...

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Fake Facebook Profiles – Keep Your Guard Up

From this quarter’s 2600 magazine, an article excerpt from “Create Mass Hysteria on a College Campus Using Facebook” by alleyrat. The two most crucial aspects of a fake profile are that it must be a...

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strange days and visa

It is strange that we live in a time when the US Govt can’t keep secrets, that an Australian is more hunted than Osama Bin Laden, and that an anonymous operation can take down visa. Indeed the future...

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The Internet has Fundamentally Changed – Here’s One Partial Solution

This post is based on the premise that 1) we have a serious security problem on the Internet and 2) money is the only (unnecessary) barrier to solving a large portion of it. The Problem The Internet...

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Brave New World of Security Vulnerabilities and Public Relations Responses to...

There is a new and significant security problem in the wild with Microsoft Internet explorer.  I am not writing about the security of it, rather the timeline and the public relations and crisis...

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Riya – Can I get an Opt Out Option to Protect My Identity Please?

I am a fan of Riya and in particular of the great PR being generated, in an ethical manner, by Tara Hunt.  She is articulate and isn’t afraid of calling someone an "ass clown" when warranted. But I do...

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Excellent Use of Corporate Blogging – Over My Dead Body

A frequent question from public relations professionals when discussing "corporate blogging" is "who should blog?"  Lutz is a good case study with good dialog like this, as are McDonalds and channel 9...

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Uninstall Facebook Applications Internationally Day (UFAID) September 1 2009

I am a fan of Facebook. I enjoy using it and it has brought me closer to a lot of awesome people. We are even approaching 1000 people on our Facebook Fan Page! But I can’t handle Facebook’s lack of...

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Fake Facebook Profiles – Keep Your Guard Up

From this quarter’s 2600 magazine, an article excerpt from “Create Mass Hysteria on a College Campus Using Facebook” by alleyrat. The two most crucial aspects of a fake profile are that it must be a...

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strange days and visa

It is strange that we live in a time when the US Govt can’t keep secrets, that an Australian is more hunted than Osama Bin Laden, and that an anonymous operation can take down visa. Indeed the future...

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The Internet has Fundamentally Changed – Here’s One Partial Solution

This post is based on the premise that 1) we have a serious security problem on the Internet and 2) money is the only (unnecessary) barrier to solving a large portion of it. The Problem The Internet...

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WordPress Configuration for Security

WordPress security is important. Because of WordPress’ popularity, because it IS A GREAT PRODUCT, it is also targeted more than any other CMS on the web. What to do? Let’s keep it simple and look at...

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The FBI confirms NGOs and Associations are Targets of Russian Hackers

James Comey Testimony on Russian Hacking Includes Acknowledgement of Russians Specifically targeting NGOs and Nonprofits Growing Tendenci – The Open Source AMS, has been eye opening. I didn’t realize...

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NSA tools release to Dark Web Date 2014 (likely earlier imho)

Kaspersky tools removal update. But keep reading – it gets better: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article180707721.html Now for the punchline – They’ve documented that...

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Marissa Mayer Testifies Russian Agents Behind 2013 Yahoo Attack

Nov 8, 2017.  From the Reuters article regarding former CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer’s testimony before Congress: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday...

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Mac OS High Sierra Turns on User Tracking by Default Again

Apple – I’m disappointed in y’all for adding/enabling “significant locations” to my laptop in the latest update to Mac OS High Sierra. “Frequent Locations” as it is called in IOS, being added to...

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installing lynis on ubuntu 16.04 notes

Security auditing on Ubuntu 16.04? If not you should be. One great tool you can use in your arsenal is Lynis security auditing. Yes this is completely redundant with OSSEC wazuh and third party Cloud...

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