by dianak | Oct 2, 2019 | Security
So October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month… again. It’s also Vegetarian Awareness Month (a nice counterpoint to it also being National Sausage Month). Now, fair warning that I griped about it last year, but I’ve never been one to stand...
by dianak | Oct 16, 2018 | Security
Peter Neumann once famously said,”If you think cryptography will solve your problem, then you don’t understand cryptography and you don’t understand your problem.” I guess his exact construction was maybe a little different (in at least one...
by dianak | Oct 15, 2018 | Security
In an interesting turn of events, I read this morning that the North Dakota Securities Commissioner has decided to intervene in a few different ICO’s. The first thing I thought on reading it was thanks to “l33tdawg” over at Hack in the Box for...
by dianak | Oct 9, 2018 | Security
I came across this article today about how people continue to break TLS sessions for monitoring purposes. Like, in exactly the way that US-CERT warned everybody not to do last year. As background, there are essentially two ways in common usage to do monitoring from a...
by dianak | Oct 8, 2018 | Security
What do sausage and cybersecurity have in common? The answer apparently is “October.” October is cybersecurity awareness month; it’s also national sausage month. One would assume that’s coincidence, but who knows what dark forces (with...
by dianak | Jun 11, 2018 | Security
Cryptocurrency prices are down in the wake of the recent Coinrail hack — it’s worth a read, but in a dance we’ve all been through before, Coinrail announced that they were the victim of a hack whereby the bad guys made off with about 30% of their...
