Dragan on Security

Merry Christmas to all.

Santa and the TSA:

See more comics here.

It is secure only if no one uses it. :)

From http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007113333116.gif.

And one more with biometric scanner:

From http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007111111117.gif.

Symantec created an online FPS (first person shooter) game where you play a hero that roams around with his goggles and an anti-infection gun. This is definitely an interesting concept of game: Symantec - Endpoint Protection Game.

After registering on the Symantec Endpoint Game web site (you will need a valid e-mail address), you can login and start playing. For starting the game you will need Unity Web Player that enables you to view 3D content created on Unity platform directly in your browser.

The Symantec Endpoint Protection Game is a 3-D style, first person shooter game in which the player’s goal is to eliminate all threats and restore the network to full capacity through the power of Symantec’s Endpoint Protection.

Eligibility is limited to persons who are employed by companies with more than 500 employees as of the Contest start date, who are members of a team comprised of at least one but no more than five players who obtain the highest cumulative team score within the designated timeframe (such cumulative team score calculated by adding together the scores of the individual Players on that team).  Individuals may participate on more than one team.

This contest began on September 27, 2007 12:00 p.m. (PT) and ends at 11:59 p.m. (PT) on November 27, 2007. If you want to participate, hurry up and good luck!

You think it’s impossible? Try it here. You could be very surprised.

This is good and interesting “joke” that I had put on my Web site couple of years ago. I almost forgot it, until I’ve seen suddenly, these days, that number of visits to my site has been increased significantly. Looked to Google analytics and found out that popularity of page Virtual Mind Reader is increasing. Some forums and blogs put link to this page and many people obviously wanted to check if computer can read their minds. And they learned that computers can even over Internet and long distance. :)

Anyway, you might know what mathematical background of virtual mind reader is, but I will not disclose it here. I just want you to think a little bit about it and find explanation.

Have a fun!

P.S. Thanks to all of you who linked me on your blogs, forums and web sites.

Scott Adams and Dilbert have very good strips on security: 

• Be on the lookout for any suspicious behavior and
• If you see someone without an ID badge.

Funny stuff. Enjoy.

“If your router is infected, it can take you anywhere… independently of what you type in the address bar, and you will think that you got to where you wanted to go.”

See funny but educational cartoon about pharming and its consequences on SecurityCartoon.com. There are some five slides with good explanation of pharming. There are many interesting cartoons there and also geek dictionary.

Enjoy and learn something in the same time!

This xkcd SQL injection attack cartoon is really funny.

Visit xkcd from time to time. It is really good webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. xkcd updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Thanks to Gojko for bringing this to my attention.

New security cartoon site: securitycartoon.com by Sukamol Srikwan & Markus Jakobsson. It has:

• geek dictionary
• spoofing
• malware
• phishing
• pharming
• passwords
• fightback
• etc.

Have a fun. :)

This looks like true story, but might be Google - Yahoo battle. Anyway, it is nice to read story about Google at Yahoo: Google mistakes own blog for spam, deletes it - Yahoo! News. It says:

Readers of Google’s Custom Search Blog were handed a bit of a surprise Tuesday when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere and hijacked by someone unaffiliated with the company.
 
The problem? Google had mistakenly identified its own blog as a spammer’s site and handed it over to another person.

The change was first noticed by the Google Blogoscoped Web site, which noticed that posts on the Custom Search Blog had been deleted and replaced by a strange comment from someone identifying himself as Srikanth.

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Funny (from Matt Blaze and Jutta Degener): Security Public Relations Excuse Bingo.