Tag: hacking

  • Seeing RED in your future? – Recap from DerbyCon 3.0

    Yes, I know, It’s been a while since I updated anything here. Work, life, etc… So here’s a quick update/recap on some of the latest: SecurityZone 2013 was an excellent experience. Always great to get back to Cali to meet who are now friends rather than just colleagues and conference organizers. I delivered the keynote…

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

    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

    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 –…

  • Vegas 2012 by the Numbers

    So, I’m finally back from a very long week in Vegas. How long you ask? well, here are some numbers that start to reflect how it felt: Number of days in Vegas: 6+1 (un-planned extra day due to a missed flight) Number of conferences attended: 3.5 (BlackHat, BSidesLV, Defcon, and IOAsis counts as a 1/2…

  • This one time, at Defcon… (a blast from the past)

    Wow, there’s a blog here… Lucky for me there are other people who write new content that somehow relates to this blog so I have a chance to point to them and say “cool stuff, look there!”. My good friend Itzik Kotler has just written a blog post about bypassing DLP systems using some of…