Email Strategy
I’ve seen a few different articles about people’s different e-mail strategies and they certainly seem to be a hot topic. With our ever reliance on e-mail as a primary mechanism ...
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...
Developing Tools for Professional Hackers
Professional hackers or security testers tend to write a lot of code. We write exploit code, fuzzers, code to handle esoteric protocols and data structures, unpackers, disassemb...
Finding Your Inner Evildoer (4/4): An Evil Streak
We’ve made it to the last part of my four part series on what makes a great security tester or hacker. Even though this fourth piece is what I consider to be the most important ...
Finding Your Inner Evildoer (3/4): A Good Imagination
In my previous posts I talked about what an overview of what makes a great security tester, and in depth about what it means to have complete knowledge of the system. If you hav...
When to Rebuild Your Process from Scratch
A few months ago I had the opportunity to rebuild the way we operate the services branch of our company. If you’re not familiar with my background I lead a team of the security ...
Finding Your Inner Evildoer (2/4): Complete Knowledge of the System
In the previous post I described an overview of the three traits I look for in great security testers: Complete Knoweldge of the System, A Good Imagination, and An Evil Streak. ...
Continuous Incremental, Personal Improvement
I am an optimizer. I try to optimize nearly everything in my life. This, I think, is why I tend to spend so much time on personal productivity, time management and other persona...
Finding Your Inner Evildoer: Part 1
As a Security Tester, or hacker, I have one of the most exciting and creative jobs in the industry. We are asked to find as many critical security vulnerabilities in complex sof...
Which is More Secure: Windows or Linux?
Somebody on LinkedIn asked the above question to a group I’m part of. I decided to answer it thinking “Oh, I can chime in with a quick little answer”, but the more I wrote the m...