Collaborate Disseminate
An investigation has started to reveal that the practice of putting a distillate of petroleum (parrafin) on your body can lead to a very painful fiery death. Firefighter Chris Bell, who is a watch commander with West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, … Continue reading More people dying in a fire: petroleum-based skin products to blame
Amazon never seemed very happy about building a dedicated physical space, kind of the opposite of cloud, to achieve compliance with security requirements of the US federal government. AWS provides customers with the option to store their data in AWS Go… Continue reading Amazon’s About Face on GovCloud: “Physical Location Has No Bearing”
Moving to SHA256 has become an increasingly common topic ever since SHA-1 went through the bad news cycle of being vulnerable faster than brute-force. Even in cases where not relevant, such as authentication mechanisms (SCRAM), it feels like only a sho… Continue reading SHA-1 versus SHA-2 performance tests
The key to unlocking the power of a self-organizing map seems to be in this phrase by Diego Vicente: …instead of a grid we declare a circular array of neurons, each node will only be conscious of the neurons in front of and behind it… He of… Continue reading Are Self-Organizing Maps Just an Exercise in Relativism?
My latest presentation on securing big data was at the 2018 AppSec California conference: When: Wednesday, January 31, 3:00pm – 3:50pm Where: Santa Monica Event Link: Unpoisoned Fruit: Seeding Trust into a Growing World of Algorithmic Warfare Art… Continue reading 2018 AppSec California: “Unpoisoned Fruit: Seeding Trust into a Growing World of Algorithmic Warfare”
If you’ve run into that awkward moment in AWS when they ask you to submit your key into some suspicious-looking web interface in order to receive the password for your newly created instance, this quick command is for you. After an instance is cr… Continue reading Locally Decode Windows Administrator Password for AWS Instance
Facebook is notoriously insecure, taking payments from attackers with little to no concern for the safety of its users. But that’s not exactly the issue when a finance guy in Sydney, Australia gives a shout-out to a Facebook user for what he call… Continue reading Did a Spitfire Really Tip the Wing of V1?
by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité (Netherlands, 1870-1946) Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow di… Continue reading The Chaos
My presentation on machine learning security opened the Ground Truth track at the 2017 BSidesLV conference: When: Tuesday, July 25, 11:00 – 11:30 Where: Tuscany, Las Vegas Cost: Free (as always!) Event Link: Hidden Hot Battle Lessons of Cold War: All Learning Models Have Flaws, Some Have Casualties In a pursuit of realistic expectations for […] Continue reading 2017 BSidesLV: Hidden Hot Battle Lessons of Cold War
On this day in 1886, a Civil War veteran from Texas, Albert Richard Parsons, was accused along with several others of a conspiracy to murder in Chicago, Illinois. Albert had served in the Civil War under the units in Texas commanded by his brothers. First under a captain in the infantry and then as cavalry […] Continue reading This Day in History — 1886 Haymarket Affair