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 things I could ask Mac users to do in… Continue reading
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You’re The Mayor of FUDville!
Rik Ferguson, Director Security Research at Trend Micro, had a great tweet early last Tueday morning calling out potential FUD in an article over at The Metro: 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… Continue reading
WEIS 2011 :: Session 2 :: Identity :: Economic Tussles in Federated Identity Management
Susan Landau Tyler Moore Presentation [PDF] Tyler presented really well and it’s a great data set and problem to investigate. He & Susan shed a ton of light on an area most folks never think about. Well done. Twitter transcript #weis2011 this looks to be a “must read” resource for anyone embarking on a federated… Continue reading
Herding [Fire]sheep
By now, many non-IT and non-Security folk have heard of Firesheep, a tool written by @codebutler which allows anyone using Firefox on unprotected networks to capture and hjijack active sessions to popular social media sites (and other web sites). The sidebar/extension puts an attactive and easy-to-understand GUI over a process that “real” security people have… Continue reading