Last month, a Rolling Stone journalist named Michael Hastings was killed in a traffic accident. There is a lot of chatter among conspiracy theorists that someone, somehow, took control of his vehicle and caused the crash.…
If you are looking for reasons to be optimistic and happy with the state of computer security, don’t read this article. Several governments have banned Lenovo computers from their intelligence operations, citing concerns over possible…
I come from a family of people who worked in the trades. My dad was an electrician. One of my uncles was a pipefitter. Another worked on an automotive assembly line. I have cousins who…
Renowned hacker Barnaby Jack is dead. This is a sad day for the computer security community. Barnaby Jack shot to stardom in 2010 when he gave a live, real-time demonstration of how to hack into…
The new school year is rapidly approaching. A new adventure! I was thinking about the start of the year as I was getting ready to start a triathlon last weekend in Indianapolis. This may seem…
According to a recent study by the Cloud Security Alliance, foreign companies are beginning to shy away from using US-based cloud computing services because of their fears concerning the NSA’s PRISM program. The study found…
If a programmer coded an organization In the same way she codes an application What an amazing organization it would be. Wall Street would surely go bonkers As every competitor it conquered Faded fast into…
I don’t know what to make of this article. As an information security educator who preaches safe dex (data exchange) and teaches the science and technology of practicing it, I’m heartened to see that the…
Internet giants Google and Facebook both rolled out changes to their user interfaces over the past couple of weeks. In my opinion, one of them did it the right way, and the other continued its…
This is an excellent article about a female mathematician and early computer scientist named Margaret Butler. Margaret started out studying the social sciences, but she found herself drawn to mathematics, where the challenge and resulting…