Security Sense: Are We More Secure Today Than Yesterday?

It's an often-asked yet very difficult to answer question - are we more secure today than yesterday? Well, yes... and no. read more

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Eyeballs

Details on how a squid's eye corrects for underwater distortion: Spherical lenses, like the squids', usually can't focus the incoming light to one point as it passes through the curved surface, which causes an unclear image. The only way to correct this is by bending each ray of light differently as it falls on each location of the lens's surface....

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I Seem to Have a LinkedIn Account

I seem to have a LinkedIn account. This comes as a surprise, since I don't have a LinkedIn account, and have never logged in to LinkedIn. Does anyone have any contacts into the company? I would like to report this fraudulent account, and possibly get control of it. I'm not on LinkedIn, but the best defense against this is probably...

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DEF CON 25, Nathan Seidle’s ‘Open Source Safe Cracking Robots’

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How to Restore Website Backups from the Command Line

Earlier this week we wrote about how to use command line tools to back up your website. Check out our previous article for details on how we create these backups. In case the worst happens, you might need to restore your backup. No worries. We can easi...

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Eyeballs

Details on how a squid's eye corrects for underwater distortion:

Spherical lenses, like the squids', usually can't focus the incoming light to one point as it passes through the curved surface, which causes an unclear image. The only way to correct this is by bending each ray of light differently as it falls on each location of the lens's surface. S-crystallin, the main protein in squid lenses, evolved the ability to do this by behaving as patchy colloids­ -- small molecules that have spots of molecular glue that they use to stick together in clusters.

Research paper.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

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I Seem to Have a LinkedIn Account

I seem to have a LinkedIn account.

This comes as a surprise, since I don't have a LinkedIn account, and have never logged in to LinkedIn.

Does anyone have any contacts into the company? I would like to report this fraudulent account, and possibly get control of it. I'm not on LinkedIn, but the best defense against this is probably to create a real account.

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