Linked List: March 26, 2022

Saturday, 26 March 2022

Kolide 

My thanks to Kolide for once again sponsoring DF. Kolide is a SaaS app that sends employees important, timely, and relevant security recommendations concerning their Mac, Windows, and Linux devices, right inside Slack.

Kolide is perfect for organizations that want to move beyond a traditional lock-down model and move to one where employees are educated about security and device management while fixing nuanced problems. Kolide calls this approach Honest Security.

For example, Kolide can:

  • Instruct developers to set passphrases on the unencrypted SSH keys littered throughout their devices.
  • Find plain-text two-factor backup codes and teach end-users how to store them securely.
  • Convince employees to uninstall dangerous (yet allowed) browser extensions that sell their browser history to marketing companies.

You can try Kolide on an unlimited number of devices with all its features for free and without a credit card for 14 days.

Foo Fighters Drummer Taylor Hawkins Dead at 50 

Rolling Stone:

Taylor Hawkins, the jovial, ferocious drummer for Foo Fighters for more than two decades, has died at the age of 50, according to a statement from the band.

“The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” read the message, which was posted to social media. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever.” Foo Fighters are currently on tour in South America and were scheduled to perform at Festival Estéreo Picnic in Bogotá, Colombia, at the time of Hawkins’ death, a rep for the band told Rolling Stone. No cause of death was given.

So it goes.