Not too long ago, I read a product review of crosscut shredders in a popular financial magazine. Under the guise of promoting personal security to prevent identity theft, a reviewer put a handful of shredders through a set of tests. One of the tests was to see how long it took to re-assemble a [...]
A few images from the past few workdays of my life, and some explanation:
To the left is a tag cloud associated with vulnerabilities. These are pouring into an ASERT-internal application we use to track activity in news and vuln reports, as well as malware reports from third parties. We have tagging built into it, [...]
USENIX security and Blackhat collided for the first time this year.
While the rest of my coworkers bounced between parties^H^H^H^H presentations in Vegas, I sat in a Vancouver hotel room reviewing papers with a program committee between talks. The divide between those who break and those who build was never starker – with the exception of [...]
Las Vegas was an absolute blast! Not just because Arbor had an awesome turn-out for its annual poker tournament (nice job, Lisa and Robin!), but also because the Black Hat sessions that we attended were amazingly strong. Having attended the conference for a number of years now, I was glad to see that CMP Media’s [...]
Have you ever taken a moment to realize that the primary reason the information security industry even exists is because a noted lack of pedantic people both in the RFC world of the 1980s and the software engineering world up until the mid 1990s? Yes, there was actually a time where people did not consider [...]
