The 2018 IEEE Security & Privacy Conference is in May but they’ve posted their full proceedings and it’s better to grab them early than to wait for it to become part of a paid journal offering. There are alot of papers. Not all match my interests but (fortunately?) many did and I’ve filtered down a… Continue reading
Post Category → AppSec
Keeping Users Safe While Collecting Data
I caught a mention of this project by Pete Warden on Four Short Links today. If his name sounds familiar, he’s the creator of the DSTK, an O’Reilly author, and now works at Google. A decidedly clever and decent chap. The project goal is noble: crowdsource and make a repository of open speech data for… Continue reading
OS X XQuartz Vulnerability Test Using R
It’s usually a good thing when my #rstats and infosec worlds collide. Unfortunately, this time it’s a script that R folk running on OS X can use to see if they are using a version of XQuartz that has a nasty vulnerability in the framework it uses to auto-update. If this test comes back with… Continue reading
2012 WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report Redux
This is an inaugural post for @MetricsHulk, on the condition that there are few – if any – “ALL CAPS” bits. Q3&4 tend to be “report season”, and @MetricsHulk usually has some critiques, praises, opines and suggestions (some smashes, too) to offer as we are inundated with a blitz of infographics. The always #spiffy @WhiteHatSec released their… Continue reading