Trey Ratcliff writes about photographing Hans Zimmer, his crew, and an orchestra recording a score for one of the Batman movies. The story is entertaining and amazing. The photographs are exquisite.

Behind The Scenes With Hans Zimmer
Stuck in Customs

Kevin Marks has written an excellent article on how web pages are being made very hard to read because it’s the in-style thing to do.

There’s been a lot of discussion about the insecurity of the internet of things (IOT) devices such as security cameras, DVRs, thermostats and more. Frankly, many of these are Linux systems that are poorly prepared from a security standpoint and sometimes blatantly exposed. Such devices were used in the recent, massive attacks against the DNS service.

Rowhammer is a sophisticated, clever and dangerous way to attack computers and Android phones. Dan Goodin reports in Ars Technica.

Well, in my earlier post on security tips I mentioned links in email. According to an article in Business Insider, that’s exactly how John Podesta’s account was compromised.

Steve Gibson from Security Now provided two excellent sources this week explaining what’s happening when lithium ion batteries fail.

This is why I only buy Lightning cables, chargers and batteries for Apple products from the Apple Store. It’s just too risky to buy them anywhere else.

“Leo Leroy Beranek (September 15, 1914 – October 10, 2016) was an American acoustics expert, former MIT professor, and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (now BBN Technologies).” from Wikipedia.

There’s been a lot of talk about space exploration and development. Here’s a slightly more practical sounding vision from the United Launch Alliance (ULA).

The information world is a dangerous place these days. You can lose everything in an instant. There’s more at stake. The biggest one is probably your personal and family pictures. The next is personal financial and other important information, documents, etc. I don’t know if it’s any more dangerous but more of us have more important information stored on our computers and other devices.

Here’s my own list of the basics. There’s nothing original here. You should hear about the same thing from any security or IT professional.