Cyber attacks, social media and internet information

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Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

Whether they be a terrorist, a foreign state or lone malicious hacker, when someone is bent on launching an attack, they need intelligence. Planning a cyber attack is no less reliant on good intelligence: how many personnel are operating at a particular location and what training they might have.

Here is a fictional transcript of a conversation:
Defence Ministry: "DoD helpline, how may I help you?"
Foreign state: "I was wondering if you might help me?"
Defense Ministry: "Yes?"
Foreign state: "We are doing some research and were wondering if you would email us a list of all employees in the army, air force and navy?"

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Data destruction: flame grilled usb, mmm tasty

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Recently my two Verbatim Store 'n' Go Micro 2GB USB Drives have been playing up so I bought a replacement, a single Verbatim Store 'n' Go Micro 8GB USB Drive. My motto is do as you preach, think about a dentist with cracked teeth, what would you think?

So of course I needed to destroy the devices well. Despite the drives over the past years being formatted, blasted with random data, files being overwritten, encrypted and decrypted something stronger and more amusing was needed.

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LinkedIn; password hashing enough?

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For the last few years I used to think LinkedIn compared to Facebook, Twitter and alike had better security and privacy but maybe now I am wrong.

All the stories from the past few days talk about poor password hashing and of course this is correct but we should also think how could someone pinch the password list in the first place.

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