On a monthly basis I will publish my reading recommendations which mainly focus on Information Security (InfoSec) and Outdoor Sports. All InfoSec Reading Lists can be found here.
Quotes from the Twitterverse
InfoSec
- Dutch secret service tries to recruit TOR admin - interesting story but not limited to NL only - [link]
- Discarded laptop yields revelations on network behind Brussels, Paris attacks - comment - [link]
- Agile Development & Security - [link]
- Origin Of Wireless Security: The Marconi Radio Hack Of 1903 - the story about one of the first wireless hacks - [link]
- After 3 Years, Why Gmail’s End-to-End Encryption Is Still Vapor - story behind Google’s story of implementing end-2-end encryption for Gmail - [link]
- Bypassing Telekom FON hotspot authentication - [link]
- Sunny with a chance of stolen credentials: Malicious weather app found on Google Play - capability to lock phone and hold it as ransom besides harvesting banking credentials and intercept messages - [link]
- Who Ran Leakedsource.com? - comment - [link]
- Data from connected CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids’ voice messages - [link]
- List of Computer Science related contacts for PhD applicants from US-banned countries - [link]
- Hotel guests locked out of their rooms due to ransomware - “However the hotel management decided to limit exposure to future attacks by rolling back to regular locks and keys, also answering requests of some customers looking for a more traditional and home-like atmosphere.” – while the trend tends to connect everything to the Internet (see IoT mess), there will be a smaller group disconnecting specific environments in order to avoid risks - being “offline” will potentially become a hipster trend - [link]
- Twitter Activist Security - OpSec guidelines for “Twitter Activist Security” - [link]
- “I have nothing to hide. Why should I care about my privacy?” - read the article in case you hear this sentence often - specifically the practical reasons mentioned in the article are worth to consider - [link]
- Printer Security - nice work by former colleagues from the RUB - [link]
- PGP - why giving up on PGP - why not giving up on PGP - comment - [link] - [link]
- Pragmatic thoughts on #CloudBleed - [link]
- Announcing the first SHA1 collision - [link]