Today I Learned

Hacker Silhouette, via Wikimedia Commons They want to help keep people safe. That’s a motivation I certainly support, but it’s important to be sure that your actions actually support your goal. On the 1-Dec-2025 episode of Cybersecurity Today, host David Shipley (whom I have mentioned before) talked about a new (at that time) website called Stop Hacklore! They describe themselves as “a group of current and former CISOs and security experts” who “want to offer guidance that ma

Artificial Intelligence, via Wikimedia Commons “People grow through experiences, if they meet life honestly and courageously. That is how...

#TIL that the iconic image of the album cover for the famous album The Wall was not actually the original cover. In fact, the text “Pink...

The film Highlander ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_(film )) was enormously popular when it came out, as were several of the...

In his classic series, Martial Arts and Ways of Japan (Weatherhill, 3 volumes, 1973–1974), Donn Draeger ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

“Zero-day” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_%28computing%29 ) or “0-day” (also pronounced “oh-day”), is another term that we hear...

When considering the term “dark web”, I had trouble deciding whether to post under InfoSec Basics or InfoSec Bullshido. On the one hand,...

Bullshido ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bullshido ) is a term referring to exaggerated or fraudulent claims around martial arts. The...