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Dan Morrill

Dan Morrill

Dan Morrill works in Interactive Media and Cloud delivery systems for Comics Forge as the COO. He has been blogging since 2003 covering different emerging technologies, management and information security. Dan works as a founding member of a number of startups, including Startup Academy International and Dead Tree Comics. His interests are in intellectual property protection, piracy, and information security as it applies to cloud computing. He also has a deep interest in media, mobile computing, and education.. His personal blog is here,  his other pro-blog is here .

In the fall out of Prism some things have really changed

In the fall out of Prism some things have really changed

By Dan Morrill on October 25, 2013

In the fall out of the NSA Government spying row a number of things have become readily apparent from both the business security viewpoint and the personal security viewpoint. From the Business Viewpoint we have landed firmly in the Catch 22 world, on one side we have government regulations that tell companies what they must […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged censorship, computer, Government, hacker, information security, law enforcement, Media and Web 2.0, monitoring, National Security Agency, NSA, prism, scary, spying, tv | 1 Response

We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer

We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer

By Dan Morrill on August 2, 2013

We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer Yesterday the web site Medium posted that they got a surprise visit from the Joint Terrorism Task Force to talk about some Google searches they were doing about pressure cookers, back packs, and other interesting things to search for. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged Bruce Schneier, facebook, google, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Medium (TV series), Medium.com, politics, Pressure cooking, prism

Adobe and SAP head towards the cloud

Adobe and SAP head towards the cloud

By Dan Morrill on May 8, 2013

Adobe and SAP head towards the cloud Not unexpected but with the idea of the subscription model to even out income at Adobe, and the success of other cloud ERP providers SAP had to do this, expect more large companies to watch this roll out and see what happens. I have not gotten into Adobe […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged adobe, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Systems, cloud computing, sap

Does the Internet really need a Delete Tool?

Does the Internet really need a Delete Tool?

By Dan Morrill on May 8, 2013

Does the Internet really need a Delete Tool? Every once in a while someone comes along with an idea that makes sense, but given the value of the data we put out there for governments, employers, and marketing folks, I don’t think a delete tool for the internet is going to happen. I am sure […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged delete, flickr, google, privacy, Reddit, Streisand effect

When things go wrong with Windows Azure

When things go wrong with Windows Azure

By Dan Morrill on April 30, 2013

When things go wrong with Windows Azure I recently started with Windows Azure, and really tried to start digging into it today. Unfortunately, everything went wrong. Windows Azure is turning into one stubborn system to get to do much with. It all started with trying to redeem my coupon code for a free three month […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged microsoft, windows azure | 5 Responses

Facebook needs to learn to manage scruffy neighborhoods to stay relevant

Facebook needs to learn to manage scruffy neighborhoods to stay relevant

By Dan Morrill on March 19, 2013

Facebook needs to learn to manage scruffy neighborhoods to stay relevant Not all of us live in or want to live in a PG-13 world. But the recent rash of shutdowns over perfectly normal behavior has me wondering how Facebook’s going to set a global standard for what the social media neighborhood looks like. Failbook, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged facebook, Facebook Graph Search, Failbook, google, GraphSearch

Will Obama's Cyber Warfare Policy Backfire?

Will Obama’s Cyber Warfare Policy Backfire?

By Dan Morrill on March 14, 2013

Jason Healey, director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council brings up an interesting thought about how diplomacy is shaping how we view cyber warfare. In an article over on usnews.com Mr. Healey brings up some interesting points about how we are approaching cyber warfare using a two-pronged approach. One approach is to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged china, Cyberwarfare, iran, Stuxnet | 1 Response

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A cyberwar barely in the making

By Dan Morrill on March 13, 2013

We are asking China to stop poking at our networks; maybe we should take a look at what everyone else is doing along the way. An international framework is probably in order at this point. Many news systems are broadcasting that America is asking/telling China to stop hacking American Companies. While in testimony Army Gen. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged china, cyberwar, information security, James Bond, United States, United States Cyber Command, US Cyber Command

Public Honeynet Data - Who are the top 20 hacking countries?

Public Honeynet Data – Who are the top 20 hacking countries?

By Dan Morrill on March 7, 2013

Public Honeynet Data – Who are the top 20 hacking countries? I could watch this site all day. In case you were wondering really wondering who the top hacker countries are, the German Alliance for Cyber Security has a dashboard display as to what is happening on 97 honeypots around the internet. It makes for […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged china, hacker, hacking, honeynet, Honeynet Project, Russia, United States

Google Hacking Critical Infrastructure

Google Hacking Critical Infrastructure

By Dan Morrill on March 6, 2013

This is where things on the internet get interesting. Google hacking critical infrastructure based on data from sites like ShodanHQ and others opens the door to further penetration of support systems. The more interesting part on this is that as these hacks were tested, the systems would only work well in Internet Explorer or relied […]

Posted in Security | Tagged Cisco IOS, Cisco System, google, Google Hack, internet explorer

Using Route 53 in Amazon Web Services

Using Route 53 in Amazon Web Services

By Dan Morrill on February 20, 2013

Sometimes you just need a little DNS to get you through your day. This is an 18 minute video that goes through the configuration of Route 53 both at Dreamhost (my service provider) and Amazon Web Services. The setup is fairly straight forward with little to no hitches when setting up the system. The main […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, domain name, Failover, ip address

Mandiant and APT1 cyber warfare espionage

Mandiant and APT1 cyber warfare espionage

By Dan Morrill on February 20, 2013

Hey wait, if we have screen video of hackers doing their work, doesn’t that mean we penetrated the hackers methods, processes, and other information resources? Sometimes I don’t think we are thinking clearly enough, as the fear mongering escalates for cyber warfare, and how we are all going to go through an electronic pearl harbour, […]

Posted in Security | Tagged china, Cyberwarfare, Mandiant

Executive Order: Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Executive Order: Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

By Dan Morrill on February 15, 2013

Heck, we wouldn’t be bloggers, and we wouldn’t care about our industry, cloud or information security if we didn’t spend time reading this executive order and seeing what hidden neat treats there are in there. Overall I am impressed with this executive order as it looks like someone actually thought about it in the first […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged Computer security, Critical infrastructure, Executive order, Security

Understanding Amazon Web Services Cloud Watch

Understanding Amazon Web Services Cloud Watch

By Dan Morrill on February 13, 2013

Sometimes making an alarm is the best thing you can do for yourself when working with Amazon Web Services. Sometimes things can go wrong with your cloud computing installation, and it would be a great idea to know what is happening with your cloud systems. We simply cannot have the console open 24X7 to monitor […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon-web-service, aws, cloud computing, Cloud Watch | 1 Response

Does it matter if you are popular on LinkedIn?

Does it matter if you are popular on LinkedIn?

By Dan Morrill on February 13, 2013

I am sure that some of us have gotten these really cool e-mails from Linkedin lately helping us put some kind of context around our relative popularity on the internet, or at least on the LinkedIn system. The problem is that being popular on LinkedIn does not matter to me at all. Sure the infographic […]

Posted in Application Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged facebook, google, linkedin, Online Communities, social media, Social network, twitter

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