Collaborate Disseminate
A friend of mine suggested this as a blog post, the top aviation apps that I use on my phone. Now, keep in mind, I’m a pilot. So some of the apps I use, such as ForeFlight, wouldn’t make much sense unless you are a pilot (or have had some kind of pilot… Continue reading Aviation Apps I Use
tl;dr: A seller who sold a terrible product is offering me $50 to change my review from 2 stars to 4 or 5. I’m not even sure where to start with this one. It’s a scenario that I’ve never experienced before even as one of the earliest of early adopters … Continue reading Sellers Buying 5-Star Amazon Reviews
Or, how a travel website’s newsletter clued me in to a huge security gap in a popular email protection service. tl;dr: I discovered URLs of sufficient length (over 770 characters) would bypass Proofpoint’s URLDefense service leaving the original link u… Continue reading Proofpoint Patches URL Sandbox Bypass Bug
“Oh sorry, I missed your email. It got dropped into my SPAM folder for some reason.” Isn’t that frustrating? All you did was send over a proposal and it got dropped into the SPAM folder. Perhaps it was word choice, perhaps you ended u… Continue reading Improve Outbound Email with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
Postini was a technology darling in the mid-2000s that sold email filtering technology as a service to companies struggling to combat the onslaught of SPAM and malicious emails that were sprayed at corporate inboxes. For small companies or small footpr… Continue reading Life after G-Suite/Postini
I’m not afraid to point out misleading or bad research that is funded by marketing groups strictly to gain headlines. Studies from firms like the Ponemon Institute come to mind here that give us excellent, shareable headlines supported by a house… Continue reading The Breach Research We Need
SMS-based authentication continues to be a great way to placate a user into thinking they are safe while creating an avenue for attackers to gain access to their accounts. Fabio Assolini and Andre Tenreiro from Kaspersky published some research that pu… Continue reading Pushing Vendors to Abandon SMS
I’ve had a few folks ask me if I could attribute any big life lessons that have helped me get to where I am. Things like the Golden Rule or an extremely healthy amount of respect for karma (both of which would be true for me) came to mind, but I … Continue reading Brando’s Rules for Success
Last year I released a blog post and a GitHub repository with some code to calculate how much money the PCI Council brings in annually, with an estimation of lifetime revenue. There are some MAJOR assumptions in there that can swing the revenue in eith… Continue reading PCI Council Loses $600K in Revenue, PO Population on the Decline
The Gong-fu Tea Ceremony is a storied traditional method for brewing and enjoying tea (here’s another instructional video). When you start to spend money on higher quality leaf, the gong-fu tea ceremony will yield better results for a more immersive and enjoyable tea experience. Even lower quality tea can taste much better using the gong-fu […]
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