Applying Fundamentals to Health and Information Security
Image by pshan427 In both health and information security it’s easy to become conceptually constrained by external advice, recommendations, and standards. The numbers of entities…
Author: Cybernoz
Civilized Cities Should Ban Smoking
I feel like I cannot be the only one who is disgusted every time I walk through someones exhaled cigarette smoke while walking on a…
Security Affairs newsletter Round 520 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Security Affairs newsletter Round 520 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2025 A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!…
Getting Real IP Addresses Using CloudFlare, Nginx, and Varnish
March 6, 2012 CloudFlare is a great service that proxies your site’s traffic in order to offer performance gains and filtering options. It can compress…
Thoughts on Sam Harris’ Book on Free Will
Sam Harris’s book on free will came out today and I read it during dinner (it’s a short read). Here’s what I had to say…
The Problem With Daniel Dennett’s Free Will
Before going into my qualms with Daniel Dennett’s capability/evitibility-based free will, I want to point out that most supporters of Daniel Dennett’s brand of free…
Week in review: LLM package hallucinations harm supply chains, Nagios Log Server flaws fixed
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Apple plugs zero-day holes used in targeted iPhone attacks (CVE-2025-31200,…
The Concept of Open Allocation
When open allocation is in play, projects compete for engineers, and the result is better projects. When closed allocation is in force, engineers compete for…
On Customer Service | Daniel Miessler
I think a lot about customer service. Or, what I really mean is that I get angry a lot about customer service. I’m not speaking…
This Essay Might Improve Your Life
This is an essay about being productive to the world around you. Confused, you say, “How does any of that fucking matter when my (wife/husband/best…
Building the Ideal 100-word Password List
There’s some phenomenal password research here from clarkson.edu that talks about common passwords found during Internet attacks. I’ve taken those entries and put them into…
APT29 Deploys GRAPELOADER Malware Targeting European Diplomats Through Wine-Tasting Lures
The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29 has been linked to an advanced phishing campaign that’s targeting diplomatic entities across Europe with a new…