Current Events

True Hackers and Middle America

Once in a great while a technology reporter seems to ‘get it’ and publishes an acurate article without the FUD and fear mongering that usually accompanies a security related news…

Remote iPhone exploit? Big Deal.

So the folks over at Independent Security Evaluators claim to have found a remote iPhone exploit. Evidently this is big news as it has already garned an article in the…

iPhone Security Myths Busted

I know what your thinking, “Not more iPhone! Enough Already!” yeah, I know me to, but seriously there is just to much FUD floating around out there. FUD from reputable…

Hacking for Dollars $$$

iDefense just announced a bounty of $16,000 for remotely exploitable zero-day flaw in Apache, BIND, Sendmail, OpenSSH. IIS, or Exchange. This comes on the heals of the $10,000 plus a…

Mac Hack Hype

So by now you have probably heard about the MacBook Pro that was compromised at CanSecWest last Friday. Here is a quick recap if you missed it. A MacBook Pro…

Who Do You Trust?

Over and over people tell me that a product, service or other item is secure because someone else important uses it, and they are sooo important that they would never…

More Cell Phone Security Myths

I have been trying to beat people over the head about cell phone security issues for years. It amazing how much people trust those things. They look at it like…