OSCON: Energy + Awesome + Space Exploration + Hacking
I wanted to post these two keynotes from OSCON 2011. They really bring out the spirit of exploration, adventure, care, and doing things bigger than oneself. This is about doing things that go beyond the cat picture of the day. These presentations, well, I’ll let them speak for themselves. Absolutely great!
OS Bridge Day #1: Hacking for Freedom
Keynote: Hacking for Freedom
(Description of Hacking for Freedom)
Day #1 has kicked off with a bang. A keynote that really pulled at the heart strings for the love of freedom and liberty! The notion of technology being involved directly to those pushing for their freedom in other parts of the world is huge. Below I’ve snagged… read more…
Cloud based Business Intelligence as a Service
While Business Intelligence is not a new issue, cloud based business intelligence as a service (BIaaS) is a topic worth noting – because it is starting to catch on equaling the playing ground between big players in ERP and CRM with smaller players wh…
Surprising little information about Cloud Computing and Terrorism or Crime
All new technologies introduce security concerns, from faulty applications, to faulty configurations, to users who are simply dangerous in the new environment. A cloud computing infrastructure is no different from the basic idea of being misused, by an…
Are You Still Using Your Real Credit Card Online? You Shouldn’t.
So iTunes got hacked and some users saw unauthorized purchases up to $600 in their accounts. I’m shocked. Not at the fact that iTunes got hacked, but that users exposed their credit accounts to such extent. Websites do get hacked, it’s a fact of life. Users need to change their passwords, consider what other sites [...]
Cooperating with Law Enforcement in Social Networking
Social Networking is facing the prospects of being deputized by the Australian Federal Police, Facebook, and other social networking sites are increasingly becoming one of the most important sources for intelligence about people. Forget neighbors talking to the police, now we are looking at our socially connected world as being involved with law enforcement. IT [...]
Cleaning up after Antivirus Soft on Vista
It has been about three years since I caught a computer virus, but a nasty little chunk of malware broke through my browser and Anti-Virus last night called Antivirus Soft. Here is a quick way of cleaning up after being taken out by this rogue chunk of malware in a few easy steps. The cleanup [...]
Hacker Disables Cars via the Web – Our Remote Controlled Life
This is what remote controlled toy cars looked like when I was a kid. Yes, the control box was connected to the car with a 3-4feet cable… not exactly the level of freedom you get with today’s wireless models. But it was fun, nevertheless. I wonder if 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez had a toy car when [...]
Yes it is possible to resource starve a Cloud Computer
Over the weekend, my cloud computing infrastructure survived a major hacking attack. Here is what happened and what it took to recover it. This weekend my servers out in the cloud space fended off a major hacking attack across two of the systems that I have given the public access to use them. The attack [...]
Turn your IPod, Iphone or soon the Ipad into a hacker system
For all the complaints against apple for making it hard to get an application registered and sold in the Apple store, there are some very cool applications that can be used to set up your Iphone or other apple Iphone OS based system into an excellent scanning and pseudo hacker tool. These are the products [...]
Security issues with the iPad.com domain
As Apple prepares to amaze the world with their planned announcement today on whatever it is they are officially going to announce, I decided to take a look at the possible names for the device they are going to announce and see if I could get a sneak peek at the domains that might reflect [...]
An Open letter To Twitter – Dear Twitter, Come Back
Dear Twitter, You are a service with whom we stick around even though there were ample reasons to not do it. As a Twitter user from the days before mainstream users even started noticing you, I think I can take the liberty and vent my frustrations in the public. You are a fantastic person but [...]
Malware starts using Amazon EC2 as a Command and Control structure
This is one of those things you wait for, like the other shoe to drop, but with the movement away from the data center to the cloud, it is an expectation that malware would follow the migration. There is no reason to think that your cloud applications are any more secure than any of the [...]
I totally love Phishing when they are obviously juvenile
Well Ok I love it when Phishers are really being idiots, and yet another phising attempt fails to snare its intended victim, namely me, and namely because the phisher is being very stupid. I do a lot of shopping online so I am fairly sensitive to the loss of an account or someone trying to [...]
Microsoft Danger Sidekick Data Loss Sabotage
Words most CIO’s do not ever want to see the same sentence; Microsoft Danger Sidekick Data Loss Sabotage highlights some interesting aspects of companies, data loss, and the willingness of speculation as to the actual reason why something happened. In this case the ongoing issues with the Danger Data Center and how it has impacted [...]
