“Forgive yourself for not knowing better at the time. Forgive yourself for giving away your power. Forgive yourself for past behaviors. Forgive yourself for the survival patterns and traits you picked up while enduring trauma. Forgive yourself for being who you needed to be.”
~Audrey Kitching
“If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.”
— Wally Lamb
ANALYSIS: TRUE. College Does Not Make You A Better Person.
“If we reach a point at which our elites — almost all of whom have
college degrees, and almost all of whom credit those degrees as the
reason for their success — begin to disdain and dismiss those who do not
have degrees, we will reach a point at which we have created a de facto
cultural underclass. In a nation premised upon equality, this would be a
disastrous social development.”
We have reached that point already.
We have reached that point already.
Dear hackers: If you try to pwn a website for phishing, make sure it's not the personal domain of a senior Akamai security researcher
Crooks fail to hijack infosec bloke's site to dress it up as a legit Euro bank login page
Exclusive Think you have bad luck? Imagine being the script kiddie who inadvertently tried and failed to pwn an Akamai security pro.
Larry Cashdollar, a senior security response engineer at the US-based global web giant, told us late last week he just recently noticed something peculiar in the logs on his personal website. Further investigation turned up signs of someone scanning for remote file inclusion (RFI) vulnerabilities.
Follow up to my previous postings via BeSpacific – Skip Cash for Equifax Breach and Get Credit Monitoring, F.T.C. Tells Victims – more guidance via the Washington Post – “It’s been less than two weeks since the Equifax data-breach settlement was announced, and already at least two websites trying to scam information-seekers have been shut down. Thus begins the effort to catch unscrupulous individuals looking to make a buck off the credit bureau’s major data breach. Let me say this now, because I have no doubt there will be many email phishing attempts, telephone calls and probably gift-card scams trying to capitalize on Equifax’s $700 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission: If anyone calls or emails you about the settlement, do nothing — and I mean not a single thing — until you verify the information with the Federal Trade Commission or your state or local consumer-protection office.
Crooks fail to hijack infosec bloke's site to dress it up as a legit Euro bank login page
Exclusive Think you have bad luck? Imagine being the script kiddie who inadvertently tried and failed to pwn an Akamai security pro.
Larry Cashdollar, a senior security response engineer at the US-based global web giant, told us late last week he just recently noticed something peculiar in the logs on his personal website. Further investigation turned up signs of someone scanning for remote file inclusion (RFI) vulnerabilities.
Follow up to my previous postings via BeSpacific – Skip Cash for Equifax Breach and Get Credit Monitoring, F.T.C. Tells Victims – more guidance via the Washington Post – “It’s been less than two weeks since the Equifax data-breach settlement was announced, and already at least two websites trying to scam information-seekers have been shut down. Thus begins the effort to catch unscrupulous individuals looking to make a buck off the credit bureau’s major data breach. Let me say this now, because I have no doubt there will be many email phishing attempts, telephone calls and probably gift-card scams trying to capitalize on Equifax’s $700 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission: If anyone calls or emails you about the settlement, do nothing — and I mean not a single thing — until you verify the information with the Federal Trade Commission or your state or local consumer-protection office.
…Please, for your safety, if you’re searching for information connected to the settlement, go to ftc.gov/equifax. There you’ll find details about the settlement, and you’ll be sent to the real website to file a claim. I also want to warn you that you may get phishing emails or scam telephone calls pretending to be from the administrator handling the Equifax settlement…”
See also via Fortune – Equifax Data Breach Victims Drained Its $31 Million Settlement Fund in a Week
CRINGEWORTHY: When Jeffrey Epstein Was Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Bachelor of the Month. In July 1980, the predatory financier was featured as the magazine’s “Bachelor of the Month” seeking a “cute Texas girl.”
Here’s how the listing looked back then:
While Cosmo couldn’t know in 1980 what was around the corner for Epstein in future decades, it’s a particularly creepy anecdote in hindsight, given the low moral tenor of the times. In September 2017, after Hugh Hefner died, but just before the Harvey Weinstein story sent the Sexual Revolution into its French Revolution phase, Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote an article for NRO titled “Hugh Hefner, Gangsta Rap & the Emerging Moral Majority.” “Slowly, however, the elite of our culture seem to be drifting toward a new, far-more jaundiced and suspicious view of popular culture from the 1960s to the 1990s.”
Here’s how the listing looked back then:
While Cosmo couldn’t know in 1980 what was around the corner for Epstein in future decades, it’s a particularly creepy anecdote in hindsight, given the low moral tenor of the times. In September 2017, after Hugh Hefner died, but just before the Harvey Weinstein story sent the Sexual Revolution into its French Revolution phase, Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote an article for NRO titled “Hugh Hefner, Gangsta Rap & the Emerging Moral Majority.” “Slowly, however, the elite of our culture seem to be drifting toward a new, far-more jaundiced and suspicious view of popular culture from the 1960s to the 1990s.”
