Speaking of shitty web pages ... I think I have eye cancer now.
It's an art form to get people to give a shit about security. Sometimes puff pieces work, sometimes they don't. Dull numbers are usually more effective: A vulnerability needs to have a specific risk, is easy/hard to execute and could cost the company x dollars if exploited and would only cost x dollars to fix in x amount of time.
You have to summarize the risk and cost to the organization instead of trying to explain the problem in all its detail.
You probably knew that, but just passing along how I have had to cope over the years.
You aren't following the correct Jesus.
/I wish this was sarcastic.
Clarification: An earlier version of this story included comments by Erdoes on the number of hacking attempts made on JPMorgan systems last year. A spokesperson clarified after the panel session that Erdoes was referring to all observed activity collected from JPMorgan’s technology assets, malicious or not.
The title is bad. One scan that generates thousands of alerts is generally considered one event. Companies that have a massive footprint naturally get many thousands of scans a day. It's normal.
Also, +60,000 people and $16 billion dollars is misleading. The people they pay the most are the ones that generally don't know shit about IT. Sure, some of those technologists are probably top-tier, but actual security experts don't usually come in large groups. There are exceptions, of course.
Large companies pay way too much for generic security solutions. In some ways they are forced, because their infrastructure is massive and they need tons of customization but there is always a fuck ton of waste.
Using big numbers sounds cool, unless you are in the industry and understand that there is a ton of fluff involved.
I skip that episode. It's just.. eh.. not my cup of tea.
Well, its a pitch that never really stops and does overlap with some frequencies enough to be annoying.
It's not that I stop hearing it. It's just that I have had this for so long my brain comprehends it as "normal" and it doesn't hold my attention. Part of the psychology(?) is that I grew up around technology. Hearing PC fans or capacitor whine most of the time was normal for me as long as he pitch is steady. The pitch I hear is almost exactly like an old CRT, actually.
I would if you would stop making that non-stop ringing sound.
(I didn't realize I had tinnitus until I learned that not everyone hears a high pitch whine 24/7. My brain will tune it out naturally unless it's really quiet or someone mentions it. Like, now.)
It can be super difficult to understand, especially when it's easy to present the same data in multiple ways. Global warming is a thing, and climate change is a thing, but it's hard to fully experience because daily weather is so variable.
For example, if you look at the last 2000 years of data, we are starting an extremely rapid temperature increase. If you zoom out to a the last 500 million years, our global temperature is still changing, but it doesn't appear to be extreme.
People just don't realize that homosapiens only really appeared 200,000 years ago and our distant ancestors started showing up 7 million years ago. Point being, we started evolving in a climate that was cool and then got colder.
For perspective, the first fungi are thought to have first appeared 650 million years ago. They have seen it all and eventually said "fuck this" and now mostly live underground. For good reason.
It's the acceleration of global warming that is bad. In the last few thousand years, we have erased ~25 million years of the last cool down period. That is bad. Very bad.
The earth will survive climate change just fine, maybe. We won't, though.
Disclaimer: All numbers are basic estimates and data changes faster than I can keep up with. I am not a scientist, but I can read charts. For my summary here, I used these:
Chinese bathtub propaganda in Vietnamese on an English speaking community about technology.
There are a ton of layers to this bot. If it's not a bot, the spammer is extremely stupid.
Older things were only better for me because of the active imagination I had.
I refuse to watch the original Star Trek series again for that reason. I tried to watch some of them once but all the magic was gone. The effects are horrible, the scripts are flat and the stories are creative, but still moderate.
However, I can think back and remember most of the episodes I enjoyed as a kid and it's just as awesome as it once was. It don't remember the details,obviously, but I remember my emotions and reactions. That is good enough to let the magic live on.
Edit: Spock mind-melding with a rock is a memory I don't want to trash, as an example. The Enterprise looked wicked-cool and Kirk getting dumped on by a bunch of Tribbles made me laugh. (I didn't fully comprehend that all those Tribbles were dead.) And yeah, I first watched some episodes in black and white which can't be easily duplicated in its trashy glory.
Can't anyone think about jobs these stadiums create? Back in my day, getting underpaid to serve nachos to drunk sports fans who just want to grab your ass was a privilage.