Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for April 19, 2015

Can you verify how you spell your password and what is your Mother’s maiden name and also the last 4 of your social and the code on your credit card you can never be too secure you know. Thank you oh I also am conducting the security for your bank can I have verify the password and pin for that too.

To be fair, some of the crazy-balls stuff that goes into technical attacks are now starting to sound like movie junk. ASLR deslide to ROP the kernel into mapping a mapping page into userland to flip NX bits? Send nanosecond reset blips to the CPU to run it in “drunk” mode, so it accidentally forgets to unmap the master decryption key before running the external ROM (30c3 5290)?!.

And then there are still websites where the (FORGOT PASSWORD) link emails you your plaintext password. Duh that’s going to get robbed just to train a password hash cracking dict, regardless of how meaningless the website is otherwise. Sigh.

Hi. I’m your bank. Someone has been trying to break into your account. We need you to identify the illegal transactions. First, to verify that you own the account, can you please repeat your account number and PIN?