by dianak | Nov 15, 2017 | Security
Have you noticed a sudden surge in interest about “digital transformation” out there in the wild wild word of web? I have. It’s a whole thing nowadays. I usually don’t comment on stuff like this because, frankly, I’m a practical guy...
by dianak | Nov 10, 2017 | Security
Have you heard about the Vault 8 stuff? If you haven’t, Vault 8 is a new repository at Wikileaks for US Intelligence software tools. One particularly interesting thing they put out there is Hive — I’ll warn you that I haven’t gone through it...
by dianak | Nov 8, 2017 | Security
Last week was a huge news week for Twitter security apparently. There were a few stories about it: Trump’s feed was deleted for eleven minutes by an angry customer support rep leading to a host of folks calling for better security for the platform, there...
by dianak | Nov 7, 2017 | Security
Ah Equifax. For connoisseurs of human folly, it is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Today we have a report from Equifax, commissioned by their board, that concludes that those executives that sold their shares just a few short days after the breach were all...
by dianak | Nov 3, 2017 | Security
So this morning, I came across this article. It describes a call to action, given by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) at the FCW (Federal Computing Week) “Big Issues Conference”, about the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF). In general, it makes me feel...
