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adamshostack

  1. @sevenps Did you investigate the possibility that the backdoor was put there by Actel? Lots of claims say you say this was inserted by China
  2. RT @ryanaraine from @kimzetter's story: The malware has the ability to infect a fully patched Windows 7 computer. 0day? << Maybe social eng?
  3. RT @nikcub: Yahoo incl'd their cert private key inside the Axis Chrome extension.means anyone can sign ext. as yahoo bit.ly/JsnJzq
  4. RT @_nomap Ageing eyes hinder biometric scans: Research suggests that irises don't remain the same for life after all bit.ly/JEwxH5
  5. Things that shod not surprise me: Koalas smell like eucalyptus.
  6. The ACLU of WA is looking for a technology & liberty director techliberation.com/2012/05/23/the…
  7. Congratulations to the Egyptian people for claiming the right to vote for their President!
  8. For those at AusCERT, quick pointer to additional Star Wars & Information security content: emergentchaos.com/archives/2012/…
  9. RT @jeremiahg RT @adamshostack: @jeremiahg Is that clueless, or cynical that the assessments are assessing the right things? < C) Both
  10. @jeremiahg Is that clueless, or cynical that the assessments are assessing the right things?
  11. RT @JohnLaTwC Nice job @adamshostack for your work on the Autorun update. Dropping infections by 60+%
  12. @mckeay @jeremiahg I was mocking me, not you. :)
  13. @mckeay @jeremiahg Data can also show management that a practice is more than a technologist's hobby-horse
  14. @mckeay @jeremiahg More seriously, we show that it works: data shows what investments are important, needed.
  15. @mckeay @jeremiahg Sound like broken records on Twitter! that'll do the trick fer sure!
  16. @jeremiahg What's really surprising is how many people fear looking silly, rather than planning to do better by data sharing & learning
  17. RT @jeremiahg it really is stunning how silly infosec's historical list of "best-practices" look when contrasted with data.
  18. RT @DanaEpp In DC @ the security dev conference. Missing you both. Adam, I taught some people EoP at the reception tonight ;-) << cool!
  19. @jack_daniel @beaker low flow toilets are a regulatory artifact.
  20. Great question for @beaker: why has innovation in sanitation exceeded innovation in security?