My beef this week is software bugs. Specifically, security related software bugs. I am constantly amazed at how little attention some software companies give to security in their code. Recently, I witnessed one such...
With the news last week of a young lady pulled off a plane because of her “provocative” attire, I figured it was time for an airline security take as this points to the basic flaw in our approach to security for air...
I suppose me being someone involved in “security” and it being the sixth anniversary of 9/11 (I guess 9/11 has become a noun now, like Christmas or Easter), I’m supposed to put out an obligatory post on my thoughts...
Well this week, we were treated to the Great Banking Outage of 2007 sponsored by Wells Fargo and most of the customers were treated to a day of 100% illiquidity. While it has been under reported, this has to rate as...
We in computer security are the red-headed step children of IT. The result of our job is a zero sum gain. If we do our job right, nothing happens. Costs don’t go down, sales don’t go up. It’s hard to justify our...
Now that the craziness of Blackhat/Defcon week is over, I feel I can put down some words about what we will be raving about on there which is what life in the Infosec industry is like. First of all, who are we, as a ...