Metrics seem to be yet another way in which Angry Bear noticed that the V-22 Osprey program has hidden from its failure to deliver on its promises: Generally, mission capability runs 20% higher than availability, but availability is hidden on new stuff, while shouted about on older stuff, because there would be severe embarrassment if you [...]
The EFF is doing some measurement of browser uniqueness and privacy. It takes ten seconds. Before you go, why not estimate what fraction of users have the same transmitted/discoverable browser settings as you, and then check your accuracy at https://panopticlick.eff.org. Or start at http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/help-eff-research-web-browser-tracking for a bit more detail.
I posted this also to the securitymetrics.org mailing list. Sorry if discussing in multiple venues ticks you off. The Not Obvious blog has an interesting write up on the Heartland Breach and impact. From the blog post: “Heartland has had to pay other fines to Visa and MasterCard, but the total of $12.6 million they [...]
(quietly, wistfully singing “Yesterday” by the Beatles) From my favorite Swedish Infosec Blog, Crowmoor.se. I don’t speak Swedish, so I couldn’t really read the fine article they linked to. Do go read their blog post, I’ll wait here. Back? Great. Here are my thoughts on those numbers: SWEDISH FRAUD STATISTICS RELEASED The World Bank estimates [...]
I also posted about this on Emergent Chaos, but since our readership doesn’t fully overlap, I’m commenting on it here as well. Chis Soghoian, has just posted some of his new research into government electronic surveillance here in the US. The numbers are truly astounding (Sprint for instance provided geo-location data on customers eight million [...]
I’d like to wish US readers a happy Thanksgiving. For those outside of the US, I thought this would be a nice little post for today: A pointer to an article in the Financial Times, “Baseball’s love of statistics is taking over football“ Those who indulge my passion for analysis and for sport know that [...]
Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research has done us all a favor and released a paper So Long, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users which opens its abstract with: It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on security questions. They chose weak passwords, ignore [...]
The Telegraph reports: More than half of all Britons have been injured by biscuits ranging from scalding from hot tea or coffee while dunking or breaking a tooth eating during a morning tea break, a survey has revealed. Who knew that cookies could be so dangerous? So forget worrying about AV or even seat belts, [...]