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What I’m Thinking About May

What I’m Thinking About May

Safety, Security, and Privacy Safety, Security, and Privacy continue to be merged together as IoT increases its reach into new devices. IoT devices are being develope with littl...

What I’m Thinking About March

What I’m Thinking About March

Lots of lost certificates 23,000 HTTPS certificates axed after CEO emails private keys | Ars Technica The email was sent on Tuesday by the CEO of Trustico, a UK-based reseller o...

What I’m Thinking About January

What I’m Thinking About January

Spectre & Meltdown

Lazy Days in the Cloud

Lazy Days in the Cloud

The cloud brings scalability, reliability and security features that allow companies of all sizes to run their online business efficiently. These powerful capabilities often bri...

Digital Currencies

Digital Currencies

I recently got interested in Digital Currencies, such as Bitcoin and others and decided to start learning about what they were, why they’re interesting, and how to invest. There...

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New Mac Install Guide

This guide may help you install some required and some helpful settings on a new mac. I originally wrote this for my company, Security Innovation, where we have very strict comp...

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My Experiences with IOS8 and Yosemite so far

I’ve been running iOS8 and Yosemite for a while now, (since early beta, actually). There were some real challenges in the early betas, but the latest version is pretty solid, bu...

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Anatomy of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack

The recent wave of DDoS attacks on banking web sites, and the Spamhaus DDoS attack (which was three to five times greater than the biggest attacks against U.S. banks) is reinfor...

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How Much Security Does Obfuscation Get You?

In November of last year engadget ran a story explaining how easy it was to decompile Windows Phone 7 applications. A lot of developers were surprised that their apps could be r...