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We went on our annual Lake Powell vacation! It has been two years though since the last time we went. We had a blast. The album on Facebook might be better than the ones below, which are not in the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2016
Fire Extinguisher Test Damages ING Banks Data Center
I’m going to drop a little knowledge first. The common hard drive uses an arm holding read/write heads over spinning metal platters (like a record player! but smaller and faster with a lot of arms, heads, and platters). Years ago, hard … Continue reading
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Tagged bank, data center, fire extinguisher, fire suppression, hard drives, HDD, ING
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IT Security vs Information Security
A pet peeve of mine is when Information Security is interchanged with IT (Information Technology) Security. Over the many years working this profession, I’ve heard people, clearly working in the Information Security realm, state they work in IT Security (though … Continue reading
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Tagged CISO, information security, IT Security, Security Awareness
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FAA Asks Public to Not Use Samsung Note 7 on Planes
Per the FAA site, the Federal Aviation Administration has asked the public not to turn on or charge the Samsung Note 7 on board aircraft and not to stow them in any checked baggage. If you haven’t heard, there has … Continue reading
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Tagged FAA, Note, samsung, Security Awareness
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USB Killer… Now Publicly For Sale
It’s been some time since I last wrote about killing computers with a USB (here), and now the device is packaged nicely and available for the low price of approximately $55. Just a note to the general public here, if … Continue reading
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Tagged usb, USB Killer, video tutorial
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