These documentaries will melt your heart into a happy puddle

It’s Easter holiday and time to relax. The telly is mostly  full of boring shows and there’s no new episodes of the series I follow. Sigh. Thank God for YouTube and Chromecast. Here’s a few documentaries I’ve seen this week. People & Power – Syria’s Electronic Armies By happenstance I managed to catch this excellent

Norwegian Bank Account Numbers

Today I’ll teach you how to extract information from Norwegian bank account numbers. History lesson The Norwegian account number system was introduced in 1967 for automatic data processing of checks and other documents. Norwegian Bankers’ Association and the Savings Banks Association in Norway decided on using an eleven-digit number for account representation. Format Digits of an account number

Hacker documentaries – the great popcorn massacre

Some evenings I just feel to sit down and watch documentaries together with my cats colleagues. Today I bring you a small selection of my favorites. So, hook up your Chromecast and enjoy! Defcon 20 documentary Defcon is one of the world’s largest annual hacker conventions, held every year in Las Vegas. I haven’t attended it,

Ports. Everybody needs a port. Sometimes.

Ports. Everybody needs a port. Sometimes. Today we are going to talk about ports. As used by TCP and UDP. Except, I am not going to mention TCP and UDP from now. In fact I’m not to talk about the technical details of ports – or what a port is, either. Today I look into port

Henry Fords dreams of cars and telesurgery

Back in the day an ingenious man strolled about with huge important plans. He wanted to make life easier by offering technology, but the road wasn’t paved with gold. After some struggle he stated something incredible smart: “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with

Anonymous Operations and interventions

Based on the recent terrorist attack on Paris – France – Anonymous has set out a new operation fighting ISIS by knocking out their online communications lines. They launched the operation on YouTube – like any other operations they’ve launched. Just to name a few operations from current year: Operation Charlie Hebdo: shutting down Islāmic terrorism online. Operation

Fake recruiters on LinkedIn

According to SecurityWeek News the LinkedIn accounts of security specialists have been bombarded lately with recruitment requests from numerous fake accounts. Supposedly someone are trying to map out their networks. The fake recruiter accounts follow the same template using an image of an attractive woman to lure the specialists in. Those same profiles are also sprinkled

How to handle snooping employers and bankruptcy

Are you using your work computer for personal use? If you are, do you think your personal data is safe from prying eyes? Today I am looking into some issues you must be aware of before reaping the benefits from your employer “sponsoring” you with a free computer. I also sum up this post giving a solid advice learned

Steaming on Cloud storage

Today I am letting some steam out. Cloud storage is great, but sometimes it frustrates the hell out of me. There are many cloud storage services on the market today. Just to name a few there’s Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, SugarSync, Box and iCloud. There is no shortage of such services on the Net, even though some

Cybrary.It Online Courses

Are you sweating over books on information security that just don’t keep their promise? Are you looking on YouTube videos made by script-kiddies but still looking for advanced topics?  Then I got news for you! There’s a new learning resource in town to combat dry books and mediocre YouTube videos. Meet Cybrary! Cybrary is an online learning