Apple Keynote 2015 – Enterprise & Personal
Excerpt: I am fascinated by Apple's business strategy and product management. Every year Apple makes a huge multi-billion dollar bet on delivering complex technology products into the hands of untrained users in the one of the toughest computing platforms - the smartphone. Plus they build custom silicon, new materials and software features in every version. And this time, they have an Enterprise product.
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Risky Business #382 — Charlie Miller talks car hax, Uber
On this week's show we're checking in with Charlie Miller. We chat car hacking and we also (kind of) find out what he's up to now he's working at Uber.
This week's show is brought to you by HackLabs, an Australian security consultancy. They're a key sponsor of Australia's Cyber Security Challenge, which is basically a CTF for Australian CS students. What makes this one a bit different is it's being run by the Prime Minister's Office, which is, yeah, unexpected. Chris joins us later to discuss the challenge, that's this week's sponsor interview.
Palo Alto Networks Rides High in Q4
Cisco and Check Point get called out in Palo Alto's Q4 earnings call.
What’s that drama?
The infosec community is known for its drama on places like Twitter. People missing the pieces can't figure out what happened. So I thought I'd write up the latest drama.It starts with "Wesley McGrew" (@McGrewSecurity), an assistant professor at Mississippi state. He's been a frequent source of infosec drama for years now. Since I, myself, don't shy away from drama, I can't say that he's necessarily at fault, I'm just pointing out that he's been involved in several Big Infosec Drama Blowups.
Then there is "Adrian Crenshaw" (@irongeeek_adc) (aka. "Irongeek") who maintains a website http://irongeek.com, which hosts a lot of infosec videos. He'll work with conferences to make sure talks get recorded and uploaded to his site. A lot of smaller cons host their video there. If you frequently watch infosec videos, then you know the site.
I think this specific drama started back in April, when Irongeek made this April Fool's joke:
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Many, most especially McGew, criticized Irongeek for this, claiming it was an "unfunny slap to women in security".
I don't know when it happened, but Irongeek punished McGrew by blocking students from McGrew's university, Mississippi State. This was noticed last week.
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NoviFlow Locks In a $9M Round of Funding
The OpenFlow-friendly startup has plans for expansion.
Chef Cooks Up a $40M Funding Round
DevOps automation framework firm Chef automates software for enterprises
Some notes on satellite C&C
Wired and Ars Technica have some articles on malware using satellites for command-and-control. The malware doesn't hook directly to the satellites, of course. Instead, it sends packets to an IP address of a known satellite user, like a random goat herder in the middle of the wilds of Iraq. Since the satellites beam down to earth using an unencrypted signal, anybody can eavesdrop on it. Thus, while malware sends packets to that satellite downlink in Iraq, it's actually a hacker in Germany who receives them.This is actually fairly old hat. If you look hard enough, somewhere (I think Google Code), you'll find some code I wrote back around 2011 for extracting IP packets from MPEG-TS streams, for roughly this purpose.
My idea was to use something like masscan, where I do a scan of the Internet from a fast data center, but spoof that goat herder's IP address. Thus, everyone seeing the scan would complain about that IP address instead of mine. I would see all the responses by eavesdropping on that satellite connection.
This doesn't work in Europe and the United States. These markets use more expensive satellites which not only support encryption, but also narrow "spot Continue reading
Featured Use Case Studies: HP SDN for Education
HP SDN isn't just for enterprises. Learn how the educational sector is reaping the benefits of software-defined networking on campus.
Former HP Exec Now Heads Skyport Systems
Art Gilliland takes the reins as Skyport ramps its secure server.
Trade Stimulators and the Very Old Idea of Increasing User Engagement
Very early in my web career I was introduced to the almost mystical holy grail of web (and now app) properties: increasing user engagement.
The reason is simple. The more time people spend with your property the more stuff you can sell them. The more stuff you can sell the more value you have. Your time is money. So we design for addiction.
Famously Facebook, through the ties that bind, is the engagement leader with U.S. adults spending a stunning average of 42.1 minutes per day on Facebook. Cha-ching.
Immense resources are spent trying to make websites and apps sticky. Psychological tricks and gamification strategies are deployed with abandon to get you not to leave a website or to keep playing an app.
It turns out this is a very old idea. Casinos are designed to keep you gambling, for example. And though I’d never really thought about it before, I shouldn’t have been surprised to learn retail stores of yore used devices called trade stimulators to keep customers hanging around and spending money.
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Skyport CEO: People Will Re-Platform for Security
Skyport Systems, the startup building a new secure server infrastructure for cloud applications, has appointed Art Gilliland as its new CEO.