Mihaela Muresan

It is interesting that the founder of one of the best antivirus program  says  " We need Internet Interpol" but nothing happened in the last 10 years since  they try to do that...  here is the article :)

http://www.cio.com.au/article/386790/auscert_2011_eugene_kaspersky_calls_internet_interpol_/

But in the same time... the police... who, of course, is not the Internet Interpol arrests some  journalist  cos he wrote and article about some vulnerabilities in Facebook's privacy controls.. which is shit in my opinion cos they should catch the real criminals not the ones who  try to help us by telling us how we need to protect  ourselves... here are the articles about the second WTF of the day....


http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/journalist-held-over-article-on-hacking-20110517-1eroe.html


and the original article who lead to the arrest...


http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/security-experts-go-to-war-wife-targeted-20110517-1eqsm.html

And in the same time some guy called "Tinkode" hacks in to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center servers... and  take information from there.. and NASA does not recognize  this... ( of course .. why would they ?) after he hacked in another  server from European Space Agency... who also does not recognize ... ( of course not... why would they? they are not idiots...right?)... here is the original article

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/hack-targets-nasas-earth-observation-system-051711

OK ... WTF? we need internet Interpol to arrest journalists, who write  articles about  security problems in one of the most public social network in the world, and to help NASA and European Space Agency to hide their impotence regarding security on their own servers? WTF?

We better start  admitting the attacks... and learn from our mistakes and stop wasting money on Internet Interpol...

again WTF?

Hmm i wonder how to start this....

Lately I got  some articles about  jobs and job interview and employers with their own  agenda....

First: It is interesting how a Google employee can be so arrogant regarding the job interview process Google has... thing is, in my opinion, they do not have a real job interview process and  every  person who does the interviews  does in fact what he/she wants... and all depends on "if he or she has or not a good or bad day".... and the line "call yourself a “10″ in Python, and we’ll have Guido van Rossum interview you" is total rubbish is like " whatever you do you are not good for us but if we are in good mood we  hire you".... WTF... that reminds me of some place i worked for almost 2 years... big corporation with huge ego and  stupid rules and more idiotic procedures... and most of all ppl who think to high about themselves but in fact they lave huge lacks of everything... and if some prick from Google  gets to tell better ppl than him that they are nothing  and he is the king just because he works at Google and they are not.... that does not looks good for Google...

Here is the article...  and  the comments are alot better than  the article...

http://allenc.com/2011/04/how-to-score-a-google-onsite-interview/

also i put here another article who shows us  how weird all the  hiring process in big companies can be ( in this case is about Google... but is same shit everywhere... )

http://ecarmi.org/writing/google-internship/


The best 2 articles  i rad this week are alot better than the Google guy one... and  those authors really touch the right  points in those articles...

First one tell us, from a team manager's view, why the interviewing ways from this days  fail to get us the right and also good employers we need in the companies ..... and he is right .... pls read this is very very interesting and good article in same time :)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/07/why-the-new-guy-cant-code/

One of the things i liked was at the end... the first from the 2 last extra article comments made by the author... where says that women are usually better than man in this... and  that made me feel good cos there are not to many guys who would recognize this... and i know on my own skin that a woman  has to be 3 times better than a guy to be considered  his equal... i will never  forget my first interview... it was me ... and another  20 guys for 1 job... and i got the job... but OMG  how much i studied for it... and how well i knew all the networking in Tanenbaum's  networking book... i still do...

Second article is about employers and their  lack of intelligence in motivating ppl who work for them... and lack of trust they have in those employees .... is sad but is true... they do not trust us and we do not trust them.. an they treat us bad and we look for other job... but what if  that would be totaly different?....

Here is the article.. enjoy it.... and maybe ( for the employers and employees) we all learn something

http://www.softwarequalityconnection.com/2011/05/i-like-my-it-budget-tight-and-my-developers-stupid/

I think that " not investing in our employees" is such very used thing in Romania this days... and is sad cos Romanian ppl have huge potential... but what good comes from that if our way of thinking and see things is same like the one  from 1800...

ok  this is it for tonight....

a great speech from one of the best security experts. enjoy.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_schneier.html

Here is his blog and the forum where he writes his monthly free article :)

http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram.html

Here is an article about  how"well protected" the data  you put on the file-sharing sites are....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/08/file_hosting_sites_under_attack/

To be honest... is not hard to guess that those  sites ( specially the ones who offer free hosting and sharing) have this problems... what shocks me is  that it took so long  for them to  see this... and by them i mean "academic researchers"...

I guess i do not have to say that I think that in Romania there are no free file-sharing sites and secure in the same time... so be careful your infos can get in the wrong hands...

all the best for everybody enjoy the article

Here is a funny story of a guy who got his computer  stolen

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1266211/6a4136c2/don_t_steal_a_hackers_computer.html

enjoy :)