Collaborate Disseminate
I am pleased to report that the fourth course for the University of Minnesota in my online Cloud Cybersecurity specialization, Cloud Top Ten Risks, is now available for registration. The course itself should be running in a week or two, depending on in… Continue reading Online Course: Cloud Top Ten Risks
I am offering a fully online cybersecurity elective to MSSE second-year students for 2022: SENG 5271. It uses my Cybersecurity in the Cloud specialization offered on Coursera, plus readings and labs from my textbook Elementary Information Security. The… Continue reading Cybersecurity for MSSE 2022
Elsewhere on the Internet last week, people were solving a mystery about a PDP-1 running a model train. People who know about such things acknowledge that the “Tech Model Railroad Club” (TMRC) at MIT used a PDP-1 to operate its layout for a few years. … Continue reading PDP 1s and Model Trains
Peter Gutmann, an interesting crypto-academic from New Zealand, has proposed discussing two crypto libraries, libhairshirt and libfootgun: In libhairshirt, the crypto is hard to use, and the API is hard to use. In libfootgun, the crypto is incredibly… Continue reading libhairshirt vs libfootgun
The University of Minnesota now offers a Cloud Security specialization through Coursera. It contains four courses (the fourth should be finished in early 2021). While the University does not offer course credit for completing the specialization, I am u… Continue reading Cloud Security Specialization Launched
One of the most popular pages on this site provides a simple conversion to map numbers of various sizes to the corresponding memory storage sizes in bits (mathematicians and other geeks often call this “log base 2”). The popular table now includes all … Continue reading Memory Sizes: Now with zetta and yotta!
Here is a crypto version of “Selling It,” a long-running back-page column in the magazine Consumer Reports. For those unsure of the acronyms, “SHA-256” stands for a version of the Secure Hash Algorithm yielding a 256-bit output. SHA is not encryption. … Continue reading Selling It: Crypto Edition
My previous posting on the Proud Boys spam email speculated that voter records were widely available for such purposes. Here’s a story from 2017 reporting that voter data for about 198 million Americans was spilled from a “storage bucket” on Amazon’s S… Continue reading Old Story: Leaked Voter Records
The Proud Boys emails aren’t actual threats. They’re the lowest form of anonymous spam.
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Like most people, I’m drawn to those small lists of “rules” that promise to make our lives better. Brian Krebs reposted a list back in May that we all need to share with our older loved ones: three basic rules of online safety.
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