Things that Spaf thinks are interesting. This includes the CERIAS Weblogs, and other items found on the WWW and elsewhere. Material here is mostly related to issues of cyber security, cybercrime and privacy; public policy towards computing; and some of the more bizarre items of behavior that get documented in the news. Also, some news about me, about USACM and about CERIAS.Tumblr (3.0; @spaf)http://blog.spaf.us/<a href="http://www.howeypolitics.com/">Howey Politics Indiana</a>: I made the quote of the week.  I guess I should now officially add “pundit” to my C.V.http://blog.spaf.us/post/43431758http://blog.spaf.us/post/43431758Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:25:31 -0400<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CeriasCombinedFeed/~3/343254023/">PHPSecInfo talk at OSCON 2008</a>: <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53795565@N00/211065412/"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/58/211065412_70a843d41d.jpg" alt="OSCON 2006: Energizing the Industry"/></a></p> <p>If you’re at OSCON, and you <em>love</em> security, you may or may not enjoy <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2829">my talk on PHPSecInfo</a>, a security auditing tool for the PHP environment. I’m actually going to try to show some new…</p>http://blog.spaf.us/post/43219603http://blog.spaf.us/post/43219603Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:20:29 -0400<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-9136">Social networking site bans the over 36s in sex offender claims | OUT-LAW.COM </a>: A rather extreme overreaction in Britainhttp://blog.spaf.us/post/43141352http://blog.spaf.us/post/43141352Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:50:29 -0400<a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1322022,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=649466&asrc=EM_NLN_4084642&uid=2205326">Open source projects fall short on security </a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/43141241http://blog.spaf.us/post/43141241Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:48:52 -0400<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/2437340/Downing-Street-aide-in-Chinese-honeytrap-sting.html">Downing Street aide in Chinese 'honeytrap' sting - Telegraph</a>: Whether it was or not, this is classic “tradecraft” for espionage.http://blog.spaf.us/post/43131947http://blog.spaf.us/post/43131947Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:29:33 -0400<a href="http://www.tribstar.com/opinion/local_story_201220549.html">Terre Haute News, Terre Haute, Indiana- TribStar.com - At least one guy at Purdue security summit was paying attention</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/43130986http://blog.spaf.us/post/43130986Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:23:27 -0400<a href="http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153190-1.html">DHS seeks cybersecurity capability info</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/43130701http://blog.spaf.us/post/43130701Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:21:29 -0400<a href="http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=911">Banks Targeted for Malicious Attacks</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/43130606http://blog.spaf.us/post/43130606Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:20:45 -0400<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-9995341-83.html">For the love of lock picking | News - Security - CNET News.com</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/43129947http://blog.spaf.us/post/43129947Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:16:05 -0400<a href="http://www.gcn.com/print/27_17/46673-1.html">NSA takes its Flask architecture to the open-source community to offer an inexpensive route to trusted systems</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/43085237http://blog.spaf.us/post/43085237Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:36:37 -0400<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9110284&intsrc=hm_list"> DNS flaw discoverer says more permanent fixes will be needed</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/43076799http://blog.spaf.us/post/43076799Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:50:42 -0400<a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/20/deadly-denial/">Deadly denial: Government fails to help sick nuclear workers : Special Reports : The Rocky Mountain News</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/43067777http://blog.spaf.us/post/43067777Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:07:48 -0400<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072001641.html?referrer=emailarticle">Cybersecurity Will Take A Big Bite of the Budget - washingtonpost.com</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/43008647http://blog.spaf.us/post/43008647Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:39:07 -0400<a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39448526,00.htm">Schneier research team cracks TrueCrypt - ZDNet.co.uk</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/42703400http://blog.spaf.us/post/42703400Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:21:00 -0400<a href="http://www.technewsworld.com/edpick/63842.html">Technology News: Cyber Attacks: Obama Calls for Cyberterror Czar</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/42664427http://blog.spaf.us/post/42664427Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:24:37 -0400<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CeriasCombinedFeed/~3/338324870/">Barack Obama, National Security, and Me</a>: This story (somewhat long) is about Senator <a href="http://obama.senate.gov">Barack Obama</a>’s summit session at <a href="http://www.purdue.edu">Purdue University</a> today (Wednesday, July 16). on security challenges for the 21st century. I managed to attend, took…http://blog.spaf.us/post/42625340http://blog.spaf.us/post/42625340Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:35:37 -0400<a href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/study_site_redirects_abundant_1.html">Study: Site Redirects Abundant, Aid Phishers - Security Fix</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/42600794http://blog.spaf.us/post/42600794Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:29:04 -0400<a href="http://politicalirony.com/2008/07/16/are-we-safe-yet/">Political Irony › Are we safe yet? - When the government labels everyone a terrorist</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/42523095http://blog.spaf.us/post/42523095Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:42:53 -0400<a href="http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/06/27/2396/dancing_with_the_universe">MinnPost - Dancing with the universe</a>: Matt should be made a US ambassador without portfolio.  Wonderful!http://blog.spaf.us/post/42455661http://blog.spaf.us/post/42455661Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:33:53 -0400<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/07/15/BAOS11P1M5.DTL">S.F. officials locked out of computer network</a>http://blog.spaf.us/post/42370962http://blog.spaf.us/post/42370962Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:03:28 -0400