I haven’t highlighted security issues in the past few days, so clearly we were due. First, Troy Hunt has an interesting post on how your personal data is passed around when using “free” services. Mattias Geniar reports on a few remote code execution issues for Git. Definitely read the post to get into the details.… Read More Geek Reading March 17, 2016 #1065
It is Tuesday, so of course that means we get a pile of new security articles 🙂 On Krebs on Security, they talk about a recent phish at Seagate where it exposed all employee W-2’s. That is a huge problem given the amount of personal information available. Softpedia reports on the Custom Content Type Manager… Read More Geek Reading March 8, 2016 #1058
Today we go a little old school. First, at the ACM we get a story from Andrew Tanenbaum about lessons learned from 30 years of MINIX. If you are an older computer science major, you probably remember taking an Operating Systems class and trying to change parts of MINIX. On <re/code>, we have reporting on… Read More Geek Reading March 2, 2016 #1054
Today we focus on some business. First, Mike McCue talks about the most powerful lesson he ever learned in business. The “first principles” concept is not something new, but it forces you to think about facts. William R Fry gives us an excellent guide to the Philly tech scene. This is important because I live… Read More Geek Reading February 24, 2016 #1049
Leading the day is yet another security issue, this one reported on Bits Please. They describe an Android privilege escalation to mediaserver from zero permissions. Some of the security issues that I list tend to be more research based than potential threats, and this falls into the research category. That does not mean that you… Read More Geek Reading January 26, 2016
A new day means a new security issue. Foxglove Security reports on a windows privilege escalation. On DZone Agile, there is a commentary on how happy people still quit their jobs. This is a response to a post recently about employees having their “shields down”. Jeremiah Owyang talks about the collaborative economy and how it… Read More Geek Reading January 20, 2016
Starting our week, we have Sam Altman ranting against the growth at all costs pattern in startups. His take is that finding the right type of growth is more important, mostly with product-market fit. On KD Nuggets we get a discussion on the differences between machine intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Lastly,… Read More Geek Reading January 18, 2016
Now that vacation is over, it is time to get back to the daily links. First, we have Rands in Repose talking about employees leaving when they are happy. In particular, the focus is on when the employee let’s his “shields down” and goes for coffee or lunch with someone. Paul Graham has an interesting… Read More Geek Reading January 4, 2016
There are four stories that top our news for today. First, VentureBeat reports on Toshiba’s plans to fire 7000 employees. That is a big number and hopefully those people can find work quickly. VentureBeat also gives us an excellent post from Steve Blank on how 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy. Crazy isn’t… Read More Geek Reading December 22, 2015
Plenty of good articles today, but we are going to focus on security. On Threatpost, they discuss how a kids toy can be used to open fixed-code garage doors in 10 seconds. Granted, the toy is “enhanced” a bit, but it goes to show how easy it is to crack some things. Sakurity reports on… Read More Geek Reading June 5, 2015
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