You are sick of remembering hundreds of passwords and changing them every few months. Passkeys may be the user-friendly solution that finally replaces passwords.
This is a paraphrasing of an actual question that I got a few weeks ago. Online privacy is a challenging subject for practitioners. On the one hand most people are…
I have written about passwords a bunch of times before, mostly arguing in favour of password managers and against rules regarding password complexity and periodic password change. An increasingly growing group…
The use of password managers is gaining traction as people realise the intractability of storing unique long passwords in memory. There are some challenges related to password managers that you…
Google is leading the push to an encrypted and more secure internet. The Chrome browser’s security team is changing the way Google Chrome handles web pages, with Firefox playing catchup.…
26 February 2017
26 February 2017
Security
browser, chrome, cybersecurity, firefox, http, https, internet, internet explorer, security
The Cuckoo’s Egg (1989) is probably THE classic true computer security incident response story. Cliff Stoll, a man with a doctorate in astronomy, gets a job maintaining the computer systems…
15 January 2017
15 January 2017
Security
book, cliff stoll, DFIR, hacker, hacking, incident response, review, robert morris
My blog has been slightly inactive on account of my travels. Here is a little Christmas gift. This article contains points that I have distilled from a presentation that I…
21 December 2016
21 December 2016
Security
backup, browsing, cybersecurity, password, patch, security, update
This is an article of a series on a group of security products known as SIEM: security information and event management. This article introduces SIEM. You have decided to get a SIEM…
This is the first article of a series on a group of security products known as SIEM: security information and event management. You are probably familiar with the fact that…
‘Ghost in the wires’ is the autobiography of Kevin Mitnick, the “world’s most wanted hacker”. The book came out in 2011. Mitnick now claims to be reformed and has his…
05 October 2016
05 October 2016
Security
book, criminal, cybersecurity, hacker, hacking, mitnick, security, social engineering