DefCon 19 Interview Series – Larry Pesce

Larry Pesce is a senior security consultant at NWN Corporation, author, speaker, and co-host of PaulDotCom, one of the internet’s most beloved security podcasts.

Also the only person I’ve ever met with an RFID implant.

Larry on Twitter

Larry’s site

 

Best 'Image of the Internet' I Ever Saw

(via BrandPowder.com)

Facebook & Twitter, the websites you visit, they’re floating at the top like Google.

Were you surprised at how large the Deep Web is?

It’s also know as: the Invisible Web, the Hidden web, the Deepnet, or the Undernet.

You’ll likely never visit there. The majority is publicly accessible, but not using your browser.

Surfing the Deep Web looks like this.

(NOTE: that’s just some Linux, not the actual Deep Web. Just wanted to give you a graphical example of how cruising the Deep Web is non-graphical)

Remember when that ‘User Based Billing’ incident happened in February ’11? And I made that rant-y video? Fast forward to 0:37, I’m talking about the Deep Web there.

Deep Web on Wikipedia

In my sidebar is another “internet in an image” image, it’s black.

 

Change Your Yahoo Password Right Now

Yahoo! had a major security breach yesterday.  

An estimated 450,000 passwords were stolen.  

The passwords were stored on Yahoo!’s servers in plaintext, meaning, not encrypted, could have been kept safer.  Expect Yahoo! to take some heat for that, which is good, because doing that is dumb.

Some outlets are reporting 100,000+ Gmail, 50,000+ Hotmail accounts, and more were part of the stolen data.  Others are saying the accounts are old, only 5% are in use.

Sucuri Labs has created a way to check if your email was affected, click here.

I recommend you change your password regardless;

it’s doubtful we’re getting the whole story.

Remember too, Flickr and Yahoo are the same thing.

Further reading:

Gizmodo

Mashable

CNN