Why Craig Steven Wright is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
By Virgil Vaduva Bitcoin and technology media is in a feeding frenzy over the revelations from Wired Magazine and Gizmodo about the latest news: Satoshi Nakamoto has been identified! And his name is Craig Steven Wright, an Australian man living in a modest Sidney...
ModPOS Malware: iSight’s Pathetic Effort to Increase Revenues
A few days before the 2015 Black Friday frenzy, a number of security web sites and security bloggers have published and re-published a very well-timed and very scary report issued by iSight Partners, a security firm based out of Dallas, Texas. The report in...
Over a Million PHI Records Dump Off Systema Software
Kate Knibbs from Gizmodo started writing last last night about Systema Software, a small software company hosted in AWS (Amazon Web Services) who's infosec practices led to a pretty large "breach" or exposure and of healthcare records to the curious, general public....
Activism and Dissent are Powerful Everywhere, Every Time, Anytime
Recently I learned something amazing about my family, particularly my great-grandfather. He was just like me. He was an activist, a dissenter, a subversive, openly speaking about his displeasure with injustice. Or maybe it is the other way around? Maybe I am like him?
So You Are Thinking About Getting Into Security? Well, Meet The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
If you have the drive and personality to take on the challenges I have discussed here, the security world is for you, but if you are easily annoyed and not willing to jump these major obstacles which you will most certainly encounter in your career, choose another path. It will save you a lot of heartache and long nights.
New App Seeks to Revolutionize First Response
Reposted and updated from brettsanders.me: A small group of activists and police accountability proponents have created a mobile app which aims to harness the network effect of cell phones to empower individuals to help one another during times of emergency to lesson...
Critics of Silk Road Judge Targeted With Grand Jury Subpoenas
by Virgil Vaduva Even outrage is now a crime in the empire of lies. The Department of Justice is apparently not happy with just sending Ross Ulbricht to prison for the rest of his life. Now they want to punish the public who is outraged by the behavior of the judge...
How The USA Freedom Act is Actually Reducing Freedom in America
by Virgil Vaduva The USA Freedom Act was successfully passed in the U.S. Senate with a final vote of 67-32. This was preceded by a tumultuous weekend of Rand Paul throwing sticks into the wheels of other senators willing to renew an un-ammended version of the...
How Keurig Are Killing Their Own Business With DRM Coffee And Arrogance
Less than two years after announcing the release of Keurig 2.0 and the introduction of DRM (Digital Rights Management) into their new coffee makers, Keurig Green Mountain announced lagging sales, sending the company’s stock down 12%. Revenues are low, sales are down...
Executive Order Allows Confiscation of All Property For Hacking, Donating to Edward Snowden
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In what is turning out to be a very poorly timed April 1, 2015 press release, the White House announced a new executive order signed by Barack Obama. The order titled “Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious...