I Am Security

Category: Opinion

  • Offtopic – a story about customer service (or lack of such)

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    So some of you know that I switched (back) to a mac. Great. One tiny thing mudded the whole experience – a couple of days after getting the Macbook Pro, I’m finding a single “stuck” pixel. Really annoying (nothing life-threatning, but definitely not Apple-like…). So I call support. Great guys on the phone, really appreciative…

  • The China/Google thing, accountants and other miscreants

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    Aha! Can’t believe I managed to avoid the unbelievable hype flood that swept across the interwebs in the last month. And to think that the last post (long overdue, I know… had REALLY good reasons for not being able to post anything) was somewhat oracleish in predicting that this would be the focus of this…

  • CyberCrime, CyberWarfare, and 2010

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    I’ll spare you the “2009 security in review” which you can read just about anywhere else you go now. I’ll also avoid the “what to expect in security in 2010” because everyone would just reiterate the same stuff they saw coming to life in 2009… What I would do is give a quick preview on…

  • Mapping and Security Research

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    From the “We should have trademarked this” department: McAfee came out with their “Mapping the Mal Web“[PDF] report and are proving that innovation is best left for the smaller players to meddle with, only to be used later by the big guys. Not that there is anything revolutionary about the report – it’s the same…

  • AHA! A blast from the past…

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    I just ran across this great blog post from Lori MacVittie at Web2.0 Journal. Can’t say exactly why it sparked my interest, but after reading it I realized this may be Freudian… The proposed Anonymous Human Authentication (AHA – great acronym Lori!) proposed in it closely resembles a technology we worked on back in the days…