Collaborate Disseminate
Way back in 1977, a computer scientist from the University of Nebraska coined “Weinberg’s law:” If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then…
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Yet another example of how LinkedIn can be abused by the bad guys… a phishing campaign which used job titles scraped from user profiles to…
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Using SMS as a second factor for authentication has always been a bit iffy, due to the risk of “SIM swapping” attacks. However, many people…
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Whenever it seems like the challenges of protecting my employer from risks to information security or business continuity are towering above me, I stop and…
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An interesting piece in the Harvard Business Review highlights the one of the challenges information security professionals face when dealing with security awareness; we actively…
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The headline is eye catching: a data breach at a highly respected security training organization when an employee falls for a phishing email. It is…
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Yes, I know it has been quite a while since I have posted anything to the old blog, but I do have an excuse… in…
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In my last post, I went on about how the real perimeter of your network is at your users’ workstations. The actions that humans take…
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I was thinking about the way that the concept of a “perimeter” has changed in the time I have been in information security. (Obviously, I…
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Attackers have responded to improved security against malware in Windows environments by “living off the land” (LOTL) – using the tools already present in the…
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