My first paycheck from Google! - A look into making money with your blog.

Yay! My first paycheck from Google! Enough money for.... something I guess.Yes. It is possible to make money with your blog. I have always dreamed of working for Google. Even though that probably will never happen, I now can at least pretend it is happening, because Google sent me a paycheck! Just under $120. Woot!Read article...

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Why Business Methods Are as Important as IP to China

Courtesy of China Defense Blog, I just read a fascinating (if you like aircraft) report on China's capability to natively produce jet engines produced by China SignPost titled Jet Engine Development in China: Indigenous high-performance turbofans are a final step toward fully independent fighter production (pdf).It's common to see open source reports describing how the APT seeks intellectual property (IP), which many people read as plans, designs,...

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Get-Winevent Part III: Querying the Event Log for Logons (Part A)

The following is a digression on using Powershell's where-object (filter) to query System and Administrative events with 'Get-WinEvent'.  I like this method of querying the event logs because it is "pipeline" oriented and allows me to re-use/amend/copy previous syntax.  I was having some concern understanding a mysterious problem: my Windows 7 PC spontaneously un-sleeps itself and seemingly commences a log-on. I wanted to understand why...

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With "Cyber" Attacks, Effects Matter More Than Means

I enjoyed reading Stuxnet Poses Interesting International Cyber Law Issues by Rick Aldrich in IAnewsletter Vol 14 No 2 (pdf). I've known the author since my days in the USAF and he's very clued-in as a CS grad from USAFA and a lawyer who worked for AFOSI. I'd like to share a few excerpts. Please try to avoid fixation on Stuxnet if that topic bothers you. Stuxnet is not the core of Alrich's argument.Article 51 of the United Nations (UN) charter...

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Old Photo Restoration using the Gimp (How to Remove a Moiré Pattern)

For this past Father's day, I worked with my brothers to create a slideshow of our awesome dad. My older brother scanned old photos from slides and photos, I did some of the photo restoration and my younger brother put the photos together and made a fun slideshow.For this tutorial, I will show you how I did some of the restoration techniques; specifically, I will talk about how to remove Moiré other patterns on the photo. (A Moiré pattern is the...

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Is Digital Security Possible?

"Africa is not a continent which is any longer isolated. It is not a place where people are uninformed. It is the fastest growing market for cellular phones. Information, whether it is in the townships or wherever, now passes very quickly... And this is not an issue which is going to go away. Nor is it an issue that is trivial for those of us that live here as we do here." JAMES WOLFENSOHN ex-President of the World Bank Below is a philosophical comment I  posted on Dark Reading today:"It has occurred to me lately (because of...

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Security Conference Recommendations

After my post Bejtlich Teaching at USENIX Security in San Francisco 8-9 Aug a reader asked the following:Richard,I was curious if you could suggest other security conferences that either you have attended or have heard are better than average? It seems as though everyone and their brother sponsor some sort of security conference and it is difficult to tell how educational they will be just by reading the website. Perhaps you could provide some insight...

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China's View Is More Important Than Yours

In my post Review of Dragon Bytes Posted I wrote the following to summarize analysis of Chinese thoughts on cyberwar, as translated from original Chinese publications:The Chinese military sees Western culture, particularly American culture, as an assault on China, saying "the West uses a system of values (democracy, freedom, human rights, etc.) in a long-term attack on socialist countries... Marxist theory opposes peaceful evolution, which... is...

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