I Am Security

Category: Opinion

  • Hiding behing the keyboard

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    This post is basically a placeholder to make sure that the materials concerning an ongoing investigation are published for everyone to see. The other reason is that it seems like people think they can get away with anything when hiding behind a keyboard. WARNING – this post contains direct transcripts from online chats, some of…

  • Do as I say, not as I do. RSA, Bit9, Adobe, and others…

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    So you thought you had everything nailed down. You might have even gone past the “best practice” (which would have driven you to compliance, and your security to the gutter), and focused on protecting your assets by applying the right controls in a risk-focused way. You had your processes, technologies, and logs all figured out.…

  • Phishing/Threatening done wrong

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    It’s been a long time since I posted here since life and work really got in the way (in a very good way!) to publishing here. But I just had to share this as it has some relevance to security… So, woke up this morning to an email claiming to be from FARC (yes –…

  • Ambulance chasing or DNA research?

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    I am fortunate enough that some of the new topics that I have discusd lately have generated interest in the community and the industry. As such, there are obviously  voices that do not agree with the approach (I still like to call is SexyDefense, although the more adult part of me agreed to SDES –…

  • Apple, meet GPG, GPG, meet Apple.

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    Why is it so f&^#ing difficult to get this right? I’m looking at you “recently identified as the most valuable public company” – Apple! The guys at GPGTools are doing some fantastic work in bringing a comprehensive GPG implementation into Mac OS X, and Apple seem to not only ignore the need for such an…