Justifiable Paranoia

I created an NCAA basketball tournament bracket contest on Yahoo for members of the information security community. The winner gets bragging rights until next year (@rogueclown, your reign is almost up!), as well as a yet-to-be-determined prize (still owed to the very patient @rogueclown for her 2011 victory). The scoring format is a traditional 1/2/4/8/16/32 [...]

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2010-05-13
“Your attackers have not failed. They’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison

2010-05-06
“All hackers by nature desire knowledge.” -Aristotle

2010-05-05
“I asked for WPA2, I got WEP. How’s that for being born under a bad sign?” -Ferris Bueller (from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)

2010-05-04
“I find your lack of antivirus disturbing.” -Darth Vader (from Star Wars)

2010-05-03
“To [...]

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2010-04-28
“The best remedy for a short password is a long passphrase.” -Joseph Joubert

2010-04-27
“Pray that DoS attacks will not come any faster than you are able to endure them.” -Nnamdi Azikiwe

2010-04-26
“A wise man changes his password, a fool never will.” -Spanish Proverb

2010-04-15
“The things most people want to know about are usually trivial to find on [...]

The Security Twits NCAA tourney bracket contest is over. And the winner is @rogueclown (AKA Nicolle Neulist)! @rogueclown DESTROYED her competitors by correctly picking Duke to win it all. Ugh, Duke. @jfug barely edged out @ramblinpeck for 2nd place. @stevewerby (yours truly) was a measly point behind. And @theharmonyguy [...]

I created an NCAA basketball tournament bracket contest on Yahoo for members of the information security community. The winner gets bragging rights until next year, as well as a yet-to-be-designed but guaranteed-to-be-awesome t-shirt.
The scoring format is a traditional 1/2/4/8/16/32 format with a twist – a bonus equal to the difference in seeds for each game [...]

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2010-03-24
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to change users’ behavior.” -Napoleon Bonaparte

2010-03-22
“They’ve done studies, you know. 60% of the time antivirus software works, every time.” -Brian Fantana (from Anchorman)

2010-03-18
“Data loss happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.” -George Bernard Shaw

2010-03-17
“A person who never made [...]

I ranked the 14.3 million unique case-sensitive RockYou passwords by frequency and reviewed the top 2,000 uniques (accounting for 4.7 million users’ passwords) to identify the top passwords by category, some of which are shared below. Eminem is more popular than Jesus as a password for RockYou users? Who knew? 7,241 uniques of “eminem” versus 5,866 for “jesus”.

The world is full of famous quotes…and quotes about information security, but famous quotes re-imagined as information security quotes is an unfilled niche. The Quote of the Day consists of well-known quotes modified ever so slightly to convert them into plausible (maybe?) information security quotes. Hover over a quote to reveal the original.

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