The StealthGenie Spyware Indictment and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. When Ferris Bueller took his famous “Day Off,” he entrusted his…
DetailsThe Silver Lining of an Intense Security Week
As security practitioners, we know that nary a day goes by when our schedule for the day (or week) goes as planned. There is always an alert to address, an…
DetailsApple the Choice of Pedophiles? Law Enforcement Just Doesn’t Get It.
Law enforcement’s response to the announcement by Apple (and later Google’s Android) that it would be encrypting by default the contents of users’ phones was met with predictable outrage by…
DetailsThe Thanks-Rob Worm to Come
By now you have heard about a new bug in one of the most popular Unix shell programs, the Bourne Shell, or bash. If you run Mac OSX you probably…
DetailsThe Time for F.U.D. is Over… Long Live F.U.D…
I’ve been known to say that ‘I’ve been in InfoSec since before it was cool.’ After 20 years of being on the front lines, first as a consultant, then as…
DetailsSecurity Versus Compliance: What’s the Difference?
Security is the pursuit of perfect protection through ongoing tightening of defenses and preemptive activities to cover vulnerabilities. Risk management, on the other hand, is a discipline that enables organizations…
DetailsApple’s Technical Solution to Surveillance Legal Issues
I recently wrote about the efforts by the U.S. Government to force Microsoft to deliver the contents of a customer’s e-mail located in Dublin, Ireland. The Court in New York…
DetailseSentire Raises $14 Million in Series C Round
[usp_status display=”email”] eSentire, a Canadian technology and security services company, said on Tuesday that it had raised $14 million in a series C investment round led by Georgian partners, with…
DetailsComcast (Heart Symbol) Tor
In the past few days, there have been reports that Comcast, the Philadelphia-based Internet giant (and broadcast giant, and content giant, and giant giant) has been monitoring its users’ activities and…
DetailsThe Point Beside the Point
If we live in a data-centric world, it is still true that data are more immediate for some than for others. To use one individual as an example: by the…
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