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
- Password Managers. - Interesting read from June 2021, especially in the light of the latest Lastpass drama - [link]
- Common pitfalls of breaking up HTTPS connections - [link]
- LastPass Breach - What went wrong? - Until 2018, LastPass required 5,000 iterations for the PKDF2 implementation, and since then upgraded to 100,100 iterations. - the key question now is: have the pre-2018 vault passwords been re-calculated afterwards with the new parameters? - [link]
- What We Do in the /etc/shadow – Cryptography with Passwords - Thus, even in a passwordless future, anyone who truly cares about civil liberties will not want to dispense with them entirely. - interesting aspect of something „you know“ - all in all a great article about the state of the password creation art - [link]
- Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again. - [link]
- How 1Password is designed to keep your data safe, even in the event of a breach - 1password has a solid communication department - [link]
- Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? Stanford scholar explains - One thing that Lincoln Electric, which is a famous manufacturer of arc welding equipment, did well is instead of laying off 10% of their workforce, they had everybody take a 10% wage cut except for senior management, which took a larger cut. So instead of giving 100% of the pain to 10% of the people, they give 100% of the people 10% of the pain. - [link]
- The 6 Fundamental Forces of Information Security Risk - i can relate to those, specifically #3: „ Risk is proportional to attack surface.“ perhaps it even deserves its own number - [link]
- Password strength explained - [link]
- The Defender’s Guide to OneNote MalDocs - OneNote files aren’t subject to the same Mark-of-the-Web restrictions (i.e. the default blocking of macros in downloaded files) as Excel and Word documents. - [link]
Outdoor
- Staying warm: What does an unheated room do to your body? - I’m hit with a blast of warm 21C air. The plan is to start at 21C, drop the temperature down to 10C and chart how my body responds to the chill. - [link]
- Cameroon’s Makombe - Trip Report and Reflections - [link]
- Canada’s train that takes hitchhikers - added to [todo] list - [link]