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Three Resolutions For Mac OS X Users
In 2011, we saw a large increase in web site exploits that exposed private user data as well as a breakdown in the trust of SSL (for various reasons) and the introduction of real malware on to the OS X scene. If there were just three…
An Open Letter to IT Vendors For 2012
2012 is nigh upon us and with the new year, I am throwing down a challenge to each and every IT vendor out there. 2011 was a brutal year of incidents, breaches, outages and FUD and the last thing anyone needs is a repeat performance.…
Still Not A Fan Of Paywalls
As you can probably tell from a previous post , I'm not a fan of paywalls—especially poorly implemented ones. Clicking on a link in an RSS feed post and having it land on a page, only to have it smothered in an HTML layer or — in the…
Predictions? Humbug! Resolve Is Where It's At
This is the time of year when pundits and armchair/amateur analysts make predictions for the coming year. Given that only a tiny fraction of them predicted the Sonage of 2011 (not Sony specifically or the level of pwnage) or the…
You're The Mayor of FUDville!
Given the plethora of FUD-dropping in the article, I could only think of one way to do it justice, and that was a paragraph-by-paragraph check-in via: Every FUD-check…
DNSChanger Detector
The FBI made a tool to help you determine if you were a victim of the DNSChanger…
Why Didn't They Just…?
A while back I was engaged in a conversation on Twitter with @diami03 & @chriseng regarding (what I felt was) the need for someone to provide the perspective from within a medium-to-large enterprise, especially when there are so many folks…
Mid/Northern New England Tweetup
It's at Fort Foster. We thought about it a bit late in the season so no pavillion, but I'll be there wicked-early and have a gazebo-like covering setup over some tables. I highly suggest bringing folding chairs. There is a nominal entrance…
Your New Mega Security Program
Everyone who can read this blog should remember the Deepwater Horizon spill that occurred in the Spring of 2010; huge loss of life (any loss is huge from my persective) and still unknown impact to the environment. This event was a wake-up…
What Can We Learn From The @lulzsec senate.gov Hack Dump?
What can the @lulzsec senate.gov dump tell us about how the admins maintained their…