Cybersecurity in the Age of the Machine
The untimely death of Ian Murdock, 42, on Dec. 28, 2015, has shaken the Linux community and the world of Open Source.
„Linux old timer. Debian founder. Sun alum. Salesforce ExactTarget exec.“
is how Ian Murdock described himself on his blog at ianmurdock.com.
The traditional perimeter-focused security model has outlived its active usefulness as evidenced by the never-ending array of security breaches that constantly push the envelope on our tolerance for administrative “malpractice” in IT.
From the various security breaches in the private sector that are by now too plentiful to enumerate, through the fingerprint-stained OPM disaster, to the recently leaked database of personally identifiable information on over 191 million registered voters (in other words: all of them): no vulnerability seems too obscure, no exploit too impractical, no hack too audacious for some keyboard-toting mercenary to take advantage of the collective naiveté–or is it sheer incompetence?–of those who are paid to protect and defend access to sensitive information. How in the world did these people get their jobs, how dare they draw a salary, and how can they sleep at night? And, even more importantly: are you, by any chance, one of them?
Extracting domain names from email addresses with the help of regular expressions takes just a nanosecond once you have the formula. The formula is the key.
Have you ever seen one of these weird redirects? WordPress, for example, may refuse to show the log-in page, leaving you out of its admin interface for good. Here is what to do about it.
Users of PuTTY, the popular SSH client, can transfer PuTTY’s rather extensive settings to another Windows PC by saving them in a registry file and merging the file with the local registry of the other computer, in three easy steps.