In my one-man crusade to make security news something useful, looks like the White House took my advice and decided not to call the position “Cybersecurity Czar”, but rather “Cybersecurity Coordinator”. Whew! Close PR shave for the Pres. From the article “Obama Announce creation of cybersecurity coordinator position”: The coordinator will not only run a [...]
Read More »I fear for the state of computer and network security because the industry is becoming a lot like diet and nutrition news. One day, this food is good for you, the next day it’s not. After a steady barrage of security news, the average user can hardly pay attention. Should Obama appoint a cyber security [...]
Read More »I’m always boggled by the number of things that exist under the open source umbrella. Recently, thanks to twitter @chrisindallas, I came across an open source rocket project, YikStik. YikStik is the labor of love of Bdale Garbee who is HP’s Linux CTO and acting secretary of the Debian project. YikStick is licensed Creative Commons [...]
Read More »This morning I was browsing my twitter stream and came across one of the many “life coaches” that seem to have found twitter like stink on a skunk and saw this little jewel: ConnectSocMediaRT @lifesuccesstv One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention. Jim Rohn I laughed out [...]
Read More »Over the last several weeks I’ve been reading a lot of Richard Bejtlich’s material – books and blogs. Richard is a frequent Black Hat speaker and emphasizes network security monitoring. He officially lists himself has “Director of Incident Response, General Electric”, but has been a former Air Force intelligence officer (described as a soldier who [...]
Read More »Here’s an nascent, but very interesting concept developing – open source gizmos: They’re basically a design shop for embedded devices you want to create: “All the ideas that are sold and designed here are OpenSource. Including Schematics, Mechanical Design, PCB Design, Programming Code.” They have a few items for sale online such as GPS trackers, [...]
Read More »Today’s NYT has an article in its Business Computing section on R the open source data analysis language that’s starting to put a dent in SAS. Read the SAS spokeperson’s comments – looks like a case of open source denial in full bloom. Secondly, a new book on Gnuplot is available for pre-release in PDF [...]
Read More »I wanted to share a fix for something that has been driving me insane on an Ubuntu Fiesty box (though don’t think it’s at all limited to that distro). This fix may be common knowledge, but, if you’re like me and you don’t know about it, then it’s not common, eh? I have a 500G [...]
Read More »Some time ago, I mentioned that I love MacFUSE which lets you access remote systems over secure shell as if they are local disk drives on your Mac. MacFUSE is a Google Code project under the new BSD license. I just upgraded my VMWare Fusion to 2.0 and one of the things they bundled with [...]
Read More »I was recently asked to evaluate virtual whiteboard solutions for a client and had the opportunity to look at the state of open source whiteboards. With one exception, it wasn’t a pretty scene. By OpenLogic certification standards, nearly every open source whiteboard would have failed due to lack of activity, lack of community support and [...]
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