Category Archives for Thinking
Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
Botnet Cost
ZD The study found that hourly botnet rental pricing started at $8.94 (£6.04), while the average price for a 24-hour rental — the sample mean of the highest and lowest advertised prices — was $67.20. The services advertised a number … Continue reading
War By Junger
I want to read it. Didn’t read Perfect Storm, but I loved his take on Nigeria. Zen seems to like it. A friend of mine who spent a lot of time in Kapisa liked what he read too. -Shlok Sign … Continue reading
OSINT vs. Space Plane
With footage – An American robotic shuttle known as the X-37B was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on April 22 under a shroud of secrecy. But Mr. Fetter and an ad-hoc team of international satellite watchers tracked it … Continue reading
Danger of Driving By Wire Systems
Breaking systems by plugging into a standard diagnostic port. (Misnomer given it can calibrate system performance rather than just reveal health.)- In a paper set to be presented at a security conference in Oakland, California, next week, the security researchers … Continue reading
First The Bees, Now the Bats: White Nose Syndrome
Wow. Though shrouded in unknowns, the basics are these: WNS has killed 90 percent or more of the bats in much of the Northeast in less than five years, and continues to kill nearly every bat it infects. And the … Continue reading