Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. The meeting presenters try to spice things up. Probably not.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Encryption 230

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Electronic Things. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games. In the moment you’ll meet someone who’s been gamifying infosec for years. Really bored. So I would take things apart. Mechanical things.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Electronic Things. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games. In the moment you’ll meet someone who’s been gamifying infosec for years. Really bored. So I would take things apart. Mechanical things.

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Computer and Electronics Military IT Education 52