Can’t resist to post this one…

A security analyst (and a Black Hat USA speaker this year) created a phony profile (Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn) on the internet and proceeded to social-engineered as many poor victims to accept “her” as a friend. The project ran for a month and it was completely published for research purposes only.

Among its many victims were

She scored connections with people in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIO of the NSA, an intelligence director for the U.S. Marines, a chief of staff for the U.S. House of Representatives, and several Pentagon and DoD employees. The profiles also attracted defense contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Booz Allen Hamilton.

If that’s not impressive enough, I don’t know what is.

Full article here:  Dark Reading

I have return! Hahaha…

Well after a month-long void, I apologize with no posts. It’s been a crazy month with new job AND new home. But glad to know everything’s going well now. Just need to tie a few loose ends

Several articles I found interesting the late few days (no Kotaku/Facebook from work )

Software to detect gender based on what you browse? Men, go try this out: Browsing-determines-gender

The biggest stir-up in the crypto community! US’ newly founded Cyber Command has a new logo, and it has crypted code on it! And according to Wired magazine they’re actually challenging people to solve it. The only hint? It’s their mission statement. Wired Article – Cyber Command Code

The last isn’t really techno, I know, but it’s interesting what you can find in the Internet isn’t it? A comprehensive list of what is *assumed* to be the cause and/or prevention of cancer: Kill or Cure?