Archive for the ‘ Information Security ’ Category
According to Confused using social websites such as Twitter or Facebook can increase your risk of being robbed. It is even being said that using Facebook or Twitter may soon increase your home owners insurance. At first glance this seems pretty scary and is something that most people likely never considered. Robbers want to rob a [ READ MORE ]
I was recently watching some research project proposals at my university. One of the proposals caught my eye, it was a way to stop common cheating techniques for page rank. At first glance the proposal has some good merit, the system would stop the current techniques used. However the problem was that they did not [ READ MORE ]
We have all be on the phone talking to someone that we may not know all to well, when at the end of the conversation they say “sounds good, go ahead and shoot me an email about this.”. If you are like me you think, “why we just talked about it”. However that email actually [ READ MORE ]
In America and most of the western world when we hear the phrase “paying the ultimate cost” we think of dying for a cause. Basically it means we value ones life as the highest cost we can sacrifice. In security the only way to protect something is to make the cost so high that attacking [ READ MORE ]
Bruce Schneier has a great insight on risk. In a recent post to his blog he wrote: People have a natural intuition about risk, and in many ways it’s very good. It fails at times due to a variety of cognitive biases, but for normal risks that people regularly encounter, it works surprisingly well: often better [ READ MORE ]