War of Gods

Professor Andrew McAfee posted a real nice article to his blog where he expresses his opinion on the auto companies crisis (ford, gm and chrysler) and how it should be dealt with. He points out real good topics, I definitely recommend the reading.

Today we saw a post by Brandon at Geek Condition sharing this Gmail security flaw where by having your cookies, the attacker can force you to create filters and hence forward email to them. One said this exploit is the cause behind the few complaints of GoDaddy user's losing their domains for apparent no reason. It is true though. Brandon goes on and demonstrates how it works. Basically it gets down to being careless, either by entering malicious websites or having a malware in the neighborhood, at the end you have to allow 'em to eat your cookies first. Yes, this is a serious security flaw and yes, Google must have patched it by now, if not, they're about to, but anyway, it's simple and can be easily prevented by using, as suggested, the NoScript addon for Mozilla Firefox (gets you a fine new layer between an attack script and your beloved cookie), or at least by being nice and logging out at the end of each session. For those of you who are curious, here's the pro...

As we all know, these days are troubled by the mass malware distribution throughout the net, and it finally hit the high ranks of the US Army. Yesterday the US Army high command announced a ban on all removable storage devices due to the number of highly efficient malware crawling inside their network. That particular kind of malware has finally found the big secret on how to get inside virtually ANY network in the world: Thru people . I believe its safe to say that people in general are irresponsible and could not care less about what happens to their company's net or what are the consequences of those acts. What's really important to them is to being able to listen to their day-to-day playlist and that's it.. Just for the sake of the context, these malware works by replicating themselves to whatever PC the device gets plugged in, and from there it replicates itself thru the network. Once there, it downloads code from the net, and that code can be pretty much everything ;-...

For those who haven't yet seen Steve Jobs' speech at Standford, this is a must. The guy is definitely a genius and his speech is quite inspiring. I recommend you take 15min of your time to watch this one:

Today the War of Gods began, and I'm hoping I can post a few times a week from now on ;-) Welcome to my place.