Category: deep thoughts
Naming and shaming
So here’s a bit of an odd story… according to the Financial Times, the US Federal Reserve has publicly sanctioned…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
als, bls, cissp
Those of you who have the misfortune to know me personally know that information security is but one piece of…
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…
is the news toxic?
This is a really well written critique of our addiction to the news. According to the author, “News is…