No, it i’s not some sort of mini-Mortman! It’s micromort, or in other words, a one-in-a-million chance of death. How can you add (or is that subtract?) a micromort to your… err.. life? Here are some options (from Wikipedia): smoking…
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Quick and Dirty Risk Calculations – CSI Survey Edition
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The Computer Security Institute recently released its 2009 survey results (must register). One of the charts in the executive summary lists the frequency of occurrence in the survey population. Without any other information more pertinent or specific to your organization,…
Notes on the Heartland breach
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The Heartland saga continues and it appears that things are going its way. Not only has the company been on a campaign to make lemons out of lemonade by selling the equipment (“end-to-end” encryption) to their customers (and, presumably others),…
Should we change passwords every 90 days?
by Pete Lindstrom • • 1 Comment
[I was unsuccessful trying to post this as a comment on the Securosis blog so figured I'd post it here instead.] David Mortman at Securosis recently posted with the following challenge: Show me any reasonable evidence that changing all your…