Recommended reading from mrdenny for August 24, 2012

This week I've found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I've found this week. Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install Crisis Trojan Makes Its Way Onto Virtual Machines Split strings the right way – or the next best way Don't Use Passwords That Can […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for August 24, 2012

This week I've found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I've found this week. Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install Crisis Trojan Makes Its Way Onto Virtual Machines Split strings the right way – or the next best way Don't Use Passwords That Can […]

My First Days With Windows 8 RTM

As I'm as MSDN subscriber I was able to download Windows 8 from the MSDN website on August 15th and get it installed.  At this point I've upgraded all three of my machines so I wanted to give you a review of what I like and don't about the new OS.  Before I go on I'm […]

DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters

This was reposted from The Ada Initiative http://adainitiative.org/2012/08/defcon-why-conference-harassment-matters/ written by Valerie Aurora. They get all the credit for this, not me. This weekend was DEFCON 20, the largest and most famous hacker[1] conference in the world. I didn’t go to DEFCON because I’m a woman, and I don’t like it when strangers grab my crotch. […]