Former Microsoft Security Advisor Caspar Bowden gave a presentation at 31C3, the hacker conference in Hamburg last month, that gave the conspiracy theorists some more ammunition. An article on his presentation appears here, his slides are here, and a video of the talk is on YouTube here. A quote from the article gives you a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lewitt, Hackman, Shapiro, Marshall and Harlan, a law firm based outside Los Angeles, has an interesting take on software licensing. They don’t say whether they have been representing plaintiffs or defendants in software piracy lawsuits, so I don’t know if there is a bias in their blogging, but it is an interesting point of view. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]VentureBeat wrote an interesting item pointing out some of the obvious things that Target messed up. Fixing these items won’t stop every attack, but it certainly would slow the attackers down. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court recently Target missed the ball on a few things. Of course, at this point, these are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Katie Moussouris, formerly an executive at Microsoft and Symantec and now an executive at HackerOne, which as best as I can tell manages bug coordination with third parties for very large, well respected companies, tells a story about an over enthusiastic security person at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. She was tapped for secondary […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In some sense, cyber attacks are no different that physical world attacks; in other ways, they are completely different. Let’s assume that you did not physically catch some bad guys that broke into a building. Do you know who broke in? On rare occasions they leave something behind – there have been instances so rare […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The media has been talking about the feds running Stingrays and Dirtboxes to gather cell phone data on potentially thousands of Americans. The government’s take on this has been that a warrant is not required. The FBI made their position known in a private briefing to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The result was […]
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