by dianak | May 17, 2018 | Security
So you maybe saw the news that Joe Sullivan is going to Cloudflare? If the name isn’t familiar to you, this is the person who was fired from Uber as fallout from their breach shenanigans: i.e., systematically covering up the breach, paying off the attackers,...
by dianak | May 10, 2018 | Security
So I came across this article today through Twitter, about how “the Internet is going the wrong direction”. In general, I don’t disagree with what he’s saying… moreover, I’m in general alignment with the spirit of it. There was...
by dianak | Dec 5, 2017 | Security
It’s December, which means three things: Thanksgiving is over, it’s cold in New Hampshire (so, so, so very cold), and security predictions are here. Call them “cybersecurity predictions” if you must (because, like, all the cyberz, amirite?) or...
by dianak | Nov 30, 2017 | Security
You maybe heard about the MacOS root password issue (i.e. #IAmRoot)? If you haven’t heard about it and you’re reading this on a Mac running High Sierra, go patch. Seriously. Go do it now (we’ll wait) — and also maybe bookmark this link in...
by dianak | Nov 27, 2017 | Security
Uber, amirite? Here’s the quick thirty-second post-vacation catch up for those (like me) that have been out of the loop because vacation. First, Uber got hacked, potentially exposing data from up to 57 million people. The data in play included driver license...
by dianak | Nov 22, 2017 | Security
So OWASP has published the 2017 Top 10. For those that follow this stuff, you’ll notice that they went with RC2 (second release candidate). This means that they removed the highly-controversial A7 (“insufficient attack protection”) from RC1 and...
