Month: May 2011

americans are more gullible in the morning…

…at least according to this interesting blog post from OpenDNS’ Allison Rhodes.   It makes sense to me… in the AM, we are all going…

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off to deepest, darkest africa

Tomorrow afternoon, a group of my Liquidnet colleagues and I will be boarding a flight for Amsterdam to connect with another flight to Kigali, Rwanda….

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it’s not always nice to share

From the department of things that should be common sense, but are not… it is not safe to put confidential data on cloud based file…

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here… have a pill… what’s the worst that could happen?

Spear phishing has been in the news quite a bit lately – it seems like just about all of the recent high profile hacks began…

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secure your computer the nsa way

The National Security Agency isn’t all about listening in on other people’s conversations or being the object of insanely paranoid fantasies.  The NSA also has…

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a post mortem tribute to (less than) mediocrity

I love the obituaries in UK newspapers… none of that namby pamby covering up of the dearly departed’s foibles or less than stellar achievements.  This…

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cloud security outlook… still, well, cloudy

Cloud storage provider DropBox provides a great example of some of the security issues that individuals and companies face when entrusting sensitive data to the…

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