Category: deep thoughts
Something about (Japanese) foxes and hen houses
Not strictly a security story, but interesting and alarming… Japanese authorities have decided that: It is permissible to make contributions to politicians using cryptocurrencies like…
Naming and shaming
So here’s a bit of an odd story… according to the Financial Times, the US Federal Reserve has publicly sanctioned an ex employee of a…
So your third party has been breached…
Another day, another third party security compromise story… this time it is Indian outsourcing giant Wipro. The firm has confirmed that a small number of…
Something’s not quite right…
Apparently, I am a man ahead of my time. While I have always sensed that there is something not quite right about the universe, scientists…
In DPRK, Linux Watches You
A presentation from this past week’s Chaos Computer Congress shows how totalitarian states (like, in this case, North Korea) can leverage open source software in…
The Practitioner’s Perspective on Cybersecurity – June 2015
On June 16th, 2015, I was privileged to participate in a panel entitled “The Practitioner’s Perspective on Cybersecurity” at the SmartBrief Cybersecurity forum, held at the…
What should InfoSec people be doing?
Every once in a while, I like to take a step back and look at just what it is that I as a Security and…
no, it’s not the end user’s fault
According to a survey released by endpoint security solution vendor Bromium, 79 percent of surveyed information security professionals view end users as their “number 1…
als, bls, cissp
Those of you who have the misfortune to know me personally know that information security is but one piece of the pie that is Al…
galaxy s5 fingerprint authentication and lastpass
Interesting blog post from Graham Cluley on LastPass’ support for using the Galaxy S5’s fingerprint reader as the key to your password vault. Since the…
