Wiretapping the Secret Service Can Be Easy and Fun

My great friend Matt Swaneveld (http://www.cybercoders.com) told me this evening about a great speech given by Bryan Seely called Wiretapping the Secret Service Can Be Easy and Fun. “Hey Jock, Spoke to this guy today…thought you would find his talk interesting Hope all is well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c6AADI7Pb4 Thank you, Matt” It was a very interesting presentation to say…

2015: Back in the Day Series: Australia Hacking – “Electron” and “Phoenix”

In The Realm of the Hackers is a 2003 Australian documentary directed by Kevin Anderson about the prominent hacker community, centered in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1980s until early 1990. The storyline is centered on the Australian teenagers going by the hacker names “Electron” and “Phoenix“, who were members of an elite computer hacking…

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2015: Five Simple Steps to Protect Corporate Data

Mr. Bejtlich and some other Washington types are pushing for more hacker prosecutions and more transparency about how the government will respond to attacks like the major breach at Sony.“Make their lives more difficult,” he says.

“That doesn’t mean we need to roll over and say, ‘Bad things are going to happen,’ ” he says. “We need to decrease the number of bad things happening.”