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Aug 15, 2023

CISA Red Team Shares Key Findings to Improve Monitoring and Hardening of Networks →

In 2022, CISA conducted a red team assessment (RTA) at the request of a large critical infrastructure organization with multiple geographically separated sites. The team gained persistent access to the organization's network, moved laterally across the organization's multiple geographically separated sites, and eventually gained access to systems adjacent to the organization's sensitive business systems (SBSs). Multifactor authentication (MFA) prompts prevented the team from achieving access to one SBS, and the team was unable to complete its viable plan to compromise a second SBSs within the assessment period.

Wow. Very impressed by the transparency shown in this report by the CISA red team. More of this, please.

Aug 14, 2023

A Font Feud Brews After State Dept. Picks Calibri Over Times New Roman →

The U.S. State Department is going sans serif: It has directed staff at home and overseas to phase out the Times New Roman font and adopt Calibri in official communications and memos, in a bid to help employees who are visually impaired or have other difficulties reading.
In an akward bit of news, Microsoft announced a successor to Calibri just 7 months later.

Aug 13, 2023

Department of Homeland Security Can't Even Secure Its Buildings Against People It Fired →

For the fourth time since 2007, an internal audit shows the Department of Homeland Security isn't deactivating access cards in the hands of ex-employees, leaving its secure facilities vulnerable to intruders.

Aug 12, 2023

The Daring Ruse That Exposed China's Campaign to Steal American Secrets →

How the downfall of one intelligence agent revealed the astonishing depth of Chinese industrial espionage.

Aug 12, 2023

Meta loses battle in EU, will ask for consent to show personalized ads →

After five years of fighting legal battles to prevent this undesirable outcome, Meta has finally agreed to ask Instagram and Facebook users in the European Union for consent before targeting them with highly personalized ads, a Wall Street Journal report has revealed.

Aug 12, 2023

Cap'n Crunch's Uniform Stripes Are Finally Correct →

Over the years, eagle-eyed cereal munchers have also noticed an important error in the uniform of one Cap'n Horatio Magellan Crunch: The gold stripes on his sleeves are below his rank.

Jul 27, 2023

Crypto and the US government are headed for a decisive showdown →

Gary Gensler, whom Joe Biden appointed to chair the SEC, has for years made clear that he believes most crypto assets qualify as securities. His agency is now putting that belief into practice.

Jul 27, 2023

CNET's Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors →

CNET is now letting an AI write articles for its site. The problem? It's kind of a moron.

Jul 26, 2023

If other media companies thought about brand equity the way Elon Musk thinks about Twitter's (er, X's) →

Elon Musk has decided to throw away more than a decade of brand equity by changing the name of Twitter to ... the letter X. Imagine if more media executives followed his lead.

Jul 26, 2023

An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster →

Dr. Jack ReVelle disarmed two hydrogen bombs that accidentally fell out of a B-52 bomber over Eastern North Carolina during the Cold War.

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H. Parker Shelton

I'm just an ordinary thirty-something who's had some extraordinary opportunities. I graduated from Johns Hopkins University, work for Microsoft in Silicon Valley, code websites and applications, take the occasional photograph, and keep a constant eye on current events, politics, and technology. This blog is the best of what catches that eye.

 
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