Simon Brown

General purpose trouble-maker. Cybersecurity, technology strategy. VK2TW. Opinions are not endorsed by anyone else.

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[Simon Brown @caelyxsec]

11 years later, this is more important than ever. Gift yourself a new habit for Christmas, if you’re still reusing passwords across sites.

And turn on MFA.

[Simon Brown @caelyxsec]

Protip: time to install a password wallet and randomise all your passwords. It would seem that any password reuse is trivially exploitable.

[Simon Brown @caelyxsec]

Protip: time to install a password wallet and randomise all your passwords. It would seem that any password reuse is trivially exploitable.

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

EXCLUSIVE: Ransomware incidents now make up the majority of the emergencies prompting the British government’s crisis management COBRA meetings.

Half a dozen or so scoops in here on how little progress Westminster has made to tackle the issue. 🔽

https://t.co/L4FZ2maenF

[WICEN NSW Inc. @wicennsw]

Today, WICEN conducted an RF survey of the Pipeline Track between Newnes and Glen Davis. This is in preparation for next month's Glow Worm Tunnel Marathon (https://t.co/K1iwBE7wyL). 1/5

[Steve Wilson @Steve_Lockstep]

MyPOV: #IDproofing by matching a selfie is just mechanising the flawed obsolete way in which humans use photo ID.
Please government! Sponsor updated digital methods! Provide citizens #VerifiableCredentials versions of driver licences, SSN, Medicare.
https://t.co/vel4CTSDKD

[Simon Brown @caelyxsec]

Partial retraction: ApacheSF was apparently invited.
Hopefully they talk about directly funding security of open source, so I have to retract the rest of this tweet.

https://t.co/1wZiHAV7en

[Simon Brown @caelyxsec]

It would be nice if they met with leaders of ApacheSF, Debian et al, to talk about how to directly fund the security of critical open source infrastructure. But one suspects they don't count as "CEOs of major software firms".

[Simon Brown @caelyxsec]

@CVEtrends Thanks for implementing CVEtrends and making it available to everyone; it's both useful and neat!

[Simon Brown @caelyxsec]

It would be nice if they met with leaders of ApacheSF, Debian et al, to talk about how to directly fund the security of critical open source infrastructure. But one suspects they don't count as "CEOs of major software firms".

[Chris Wysopal @WeldPond]

I went to DC and talked to the NSC about this 4 years ago and they didn’t seem to care. Everything about govt and cybersecurity is so reactive. https://t.co/8KFZjQMYpq

[New Low Observer @NewLowObserver]

March 2000: Top Tech "Values"

[ATP Tour @atptour]

Giving up on 2020 like... 😂

What a fun moment this was!

[NSW RFS @NSWRFS]

Ok. May not get our deposit back on that sign.

We are loving the rain - but please stay safe during this wild weather. #nswrfs

[Simon Brown @caelyxsec]

Boris Johnson and the Tragedy of the Commons

[Jamie Bartlett 🇬🇧 @JamieJBartlett]

And people say machines aren't creative!

[Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes]

. @ziobrando Here's a diagram of two microservices and their shared database.

[Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes]

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery

[Owen⚡ @OwenP1000]

Today is the big day! Off to Sydney to launch the #ACACyberChallenges designed to teach critical #cybersecurity skills to Australian students and teachers across 🇦🇺 with our partners @AusCompAcademy @ANZ_AU @CommBank @Westpac @NAB @bt_global 😎 https://t.co/wbvmgoVGAi

[Simon Brown @caelyxsec]

2019 technology is pretty neat. I just casually checked the toxicity of the ingredients in my daughter’s crystal growing kit. 30 years ago, I’d be hoping our Britannica mentioned it, else I’d be headed to a library. The friction of acquiring answers has raced toward zero.