The Art of Keeping Things Done
The current field of information security is largely one of arcana, vagueness, arbitrary views, philosophy, mountaintop sages, a general lack of reliable data, and legions of vendors selling “best practices.” […]
Category Archives: Information Security
The Politics of Respect
There is a lot of perennial talk of social engineering and direct project/resource management. Attempts to solve complicated political situations with manipulation or a slick widget tend not to work […]
Specialists, Generalists, Incompetence, and Cognitive Bias
I wanted to continue a bit where I left off with a non-technical explanation of what people such as myself do and my commentary on evolving technology management. Here is […]
Agile Infosec
This is a reprint of my comment to a Joshua Corman’s posting on The Fudsec Blog. Consider going there to read his article and the discussion that followed. I can’t […]
Best of 26c3
Here is my list of the most important talks of the 26th Chaos Communication Congress [26C3] held in Berlin, Germany that was held last week. Since my German language skills […]
Swamp Computing
Tired of reading yet another cloud security article? This is really the only one you need to read. If you don’t have the attention span to read it all, read […]
Federal Data Breach Bill (H.R. 2221) Passes House
H.R. 2221 defines personal information as, “an individual’s first name or initial and last name, or address, or phone number, in combination with any 1 or more of the following […]
Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes, Drones
Tapping into drones’ video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military’s primary system for bringing overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the ground is also vulnerable to […]
Amazon EC2 cloud service hit by botnet, outage
The folks who run Amazon’s EC2 cloud service must be happy the week is nearly over. The cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) was kept jumping this past week by two […]
What we do
It’s nice that geeks are cool now. Now there are a lot of people who say they’re hardcore. Here’s some of them: These stereotypes are not who I’m going to […]
Bad Penny 