Blatant Incompetence
Backups? We’re Government IT, We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Backups…
via Sean Gallagher's superlative blog piece ensconced at Ars Technica, detailing the astoundingly blatant stupidity exhibited by Baltimore City's IT Department during their recent ransomware episodes. There is enough stupidity to spread ...
Weak-Kneed Oversight, The Clowns Of Biometric Data Security
via superlative reportage from DJ Pangburn, we now learn of the ineptitude of US governmental oversight officials (and the Agencies, Bureaus, Departments, and Branches of Federal Government they service) tasked with protecting ...
Presumptions Of Grandeur, The Cisco Router Fail
via Lily Hay Newman, writing for Wired Magazine, comes her superb take on the oft ephemeral, yet - this instance - globally devastating Le Bug du jour'. Simply astonishing that Cisco Systems ...
Information Security Hubris: The Cruft of Wipro
Sterling Example of both the Hubris and Cruft of Wipro. Would you trust the Indian outsourcing company with your organizations' information security? ...
Facebookery, The Hoovering
Another day, another data thievery revelation at Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB). It's time for our national law enforcement agencies to take action and act in the manner they would against any other ...
Weak-Kneed GoDaddy Security Implementation Permits Large-Scale Email Bomb Threat Transmissions
via the highly respected Dan Goodin - Security Editor at Ars Technica, comes the story of a fundamental design weakness at GoDaddy, Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), whcih permitted thousands of domains registered at ...
Oklahoma State Government Exposes Federal Law Enforcement Data
via Swati Khandelwal - writing at The Hacker News - comes this news confection, detailing the apparent incompetence of the State of Oklahoma Department of Securities (ODS) protective security personnel in safeguarding ...
OPM’d, Again…
The June 2015 OPM Data Breach, The Gift That Keeps On Giving… via Shaun Nichols, writing at El Reg, comes today's shocker: The core flaws which facilitated the Communist Chinese Cyber Attack ...
Google’s Feet of Clay
Graham Cluley has reported (from an original Wall Street Journal source report) a Google, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) security SNAFU... This time, the failure of the so-called non-evil company to report a significant ...
Comcast, A Litany of Incompetence
Yes, you read it right. If you lease a Comcast Modem with WiFi, Comcast has been providing the password to your WiFi network in the clear, with only minimal identity management (snippets ...
