Category: online security

I have been noodling around with ChatGPT recently and have found a nice little use case that I hope someone with more coding skills and…

For a third party, knowing what people from company X are asking of ChatGPT (or any other generative AI) could be quite interesting and profitable…

Security professionals (and the people who measure our performance like auditors and regulators) have traditionally taken a stance that “all serious vulnerabilities should be patched”…

The cryptocurrency world has been the scene of some *wild* stuff lately… and a recent lawsuit filed by IRA Financial Trust against Winkelvossian crypto exchange…

We need to work with system designers and developers to make them understand that using a secure credential vault with programmatic access is not an optional luxury – it is a basic security requirement. Credentials do not belong in code, even if that code is stored in a safe inside a vault inside a volcano.

Way back in 1977, a computer scientist from the University of Nebraska coined “Weinberg’s law:” If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then…

Yet another example of how LinkedIn can be abused by the bad guys… a phishing campaign which used job titles scraped from user profiles to…

UPDATE: The three major US mobile carriers have closed this particular loophole… however, it is not clear if carriers in other parts of the world…

The headline is eye catching: a data breach at a highly respected security training organization when an employee falls for a phishing email. It is…

Yes, I know it has been quite a while since I have posted anything to the old blog, but I do have an excuse… in…