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SKYPE: (S)ecurely (K)eep (Y)our (P)ersonal (E)-communications
SKYPE: Securely Keep Your Personal E-communications From time to time people get new computer equipment and need to (re-)install all their favorite programs. Often a painful and time-consuming job, but...
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Super Tuesday malware attack targets US voters
If you're following the US elections, don't be duped into infecting your computer.
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Updated: Serious security hole in iOS 5.1? Perhaps not..
Is iOS 5.1 allowing people to access your iPhone or iPad without a pass code? Perhaps not, but we were duped!
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The Basics: Public Key Crypto … Diffie-Hellman Style
I’ve always been a big fan of understanding the basics of infosec to help your career in the long run. Fitting that this past weekend I came across a great little 5 minute video explaining how public...
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How To Get An Invite To Next Years Security Bloggers Meet-up
As I wrote about earlier this years RSA Security Bloggers Meet-up was the best one yet! We had over 170 people, mentalists/magicians, photo booths, great food, top shelf liquor and most of all the...
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Top 3-5 Things to Remove from PCI DSS
Chip, by Declan Jewell PCI DSS 2.0 has been out for over a year now, and the feedback period is almost closed (ends April 15). If you have not submitted feedback yet, do so! But here’s an interesting...
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SecOps – A step closer to bridging the Security Operations and IT Operations...
Today's post is a guest-blog by Scott Edwards, from the HP BSM (Business Service Management) group - oddly enough not a 'security' function - but as I promised in a previous post to provide more...
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Security isn’t the only thing tricky to quantify
At the RSA Conference last week, I had an interesting discussion about quantifying security. I was eating the food and drinking the beer that some vendor had cheerfully provided when I got into a...
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Collusion: Web Tracking, Visualized
Want to discover the tangled web of cookie tracking, on your own device? Examine the well-crafted and succinctly engineered Mozilla Foundation Firefox add-on monikered Collusion. Atul Varma’s...
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Computer Security Trends and Threats in the Federal Sector – Future of Security
By now we are well aware that advanced persistent threats (APTs) and other cyber attacks can and will wreak havoc -- and IT security professionals are justifiably concerned. A recent ESG research...
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The Importance of Being Earnest – About the Application Layer
As a long time security professional and Veracoder heading Product Marketing, Sam King has seen investments in security go up exponentially over the years. Even with all that additional investment,...
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It’s Impossible to Secure Everything, So Focus on Your Adversaries
Vulnerability protection is reaching infinity, so why not focus on something that's probably far less, your adversaries.
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Nitrozac and Snaggy: Bachelor iPad
via the comic genius of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech™
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Chrome falls in first five minutes at Pwn2Own vulnerability contest
Chrome's boastful track record of fending off vulnerabilities in bug-hunting contests seems to have come to an end.
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Net accesses …
So, I’m always excited about CanSecWest, and I was yesterday, as I got ready. I went to do a last minute download of email. (Yes, the conference provides wireless, and it usually works, after a few...
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Banking on Badb in the Underweb
Underground Web sites can be a useful barometer for the daily volume of criminal trade in goods like stolen credit card numbers and hijacked PayPal or eBay accounts. And if the current low prices at...
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FBI arrests 6 — Anonymous Sold Out by One of Its Own
A member of the infamous Anonymous-LulzSec hacker groups, Hector Monsegur, known as Sabu, appears to be the primary snitch in the arrest of five other members of LulzSec announced by the FBI this week.
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Cloud storage data risks and encryption
Are you encrypting the data you keep in the cloud? Or are you trusting the cloud storage providers to do a decent job at security?
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There Is No Camera Lock Screen Bypass in iOS 5.1
There have been reports (and here) of iOS 5.1 containing a camera bypass tied to the new camera shortcut on the lock screen. The people who have reported this are sadly confused about the security...
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