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Social Engineering and your corporate smoking area
By forcing all of those employees to stand outside a constantly revolving, and usually insecure door, is your company leaving the backdoor open for hackers?
One could simply “hang around” these spots to learn names, politics and view samples of badges and other security devices a company may use. When I worked at a downtown high-rise, one could see the badges and learn the names of important people within large financial institutions. This information could easily be assimilated, organized and used to gain physical access to these companies.
How sure are you the person enjoying a cigarette next to you is REALLY an employee from the IT department of your company?
Workplace smoke ban a ‘gift’ for hackers
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It appears that we have a 1 in 45,000 chance that the Asteroid Apophis will slam into the Pacific ocean on April 13, 2036. Superman, where are you now?
Many people do not realize that there are 127 objects that are listed as potential impact risks, with many thousands of others probably undiscovered.
Asteroid threat demands response, experts warn
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Sphere: Related ContentSemantic Web (Web 3.0) and Beyond!
Excellent article from ZDNet regarding the future of the Web.
From semantic Web (3.0) to the WebOS (4.0) by ZDNet’s Dan Farber — Nova Spivack of Radar Networks maps out his view of the evolution of the Web over the next 25 years. Nova said he isn’t sure about exact dates or technologies on the top end of the map, but his view of ten-year blocks to fully evolve each phase is realistic. Nor should we get hung [...]
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Sphere: Related ContentHurricane Peyton
Just announced! The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a hurricane warning for the east coast of Florida.
The CAT5 storm will make landfall this Sunday, Feb 4th 2007 around 6:30 EST.
This storm is known to produce massive amounts of disruption for any defense and residents, especially Bears fans, are urged to take cover immediately.
Go Colts!
Thanks to Tracy for the image…
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Sphere: Related ContentIndiana Politics Blog
It is so fun to watch how far blogging has come. Here is a blog that is focused on Indianapolis and Indiana politics.
Jennifer Wagner runs this very insightful view inside politics locally here in Indiana. Kudos to you Jennifer, keep up the good work!
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