My buddy George at InformationWeek suggests that security breaches have negative impact on the brand. The notion of a “brand” is something I find very interesting wrt security, if only that I have heard many, many times from security folks…

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So my son saw an option in the settings for his Flip-like video camera that said “Format SD card” and assumed it meant format the video he took to save it to the SD card. Having never in his life…

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I had just finished reading Bruce Schneier’s blog post “Security in 2020” when further review of blogs I follow pointed me to Chris Alden’s post “Julian Simon, and Paul Krugman, Remembered.” Alden’s post reminisced about a 1998 issue of his…

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In security, annual recaps and predictions are often depressing and not particularly insightful. Let’s face it — it isn’t difficult to assert that there will be more nation-state involvement in increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks against foreign and domestic targets, all…

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There is plenty of discussion about the TSA scanners – they are too invasive, they won’t work, etc. I did a quick survey on Mechanical Turk of “people living in the U.S.” (I didn’t actually verify this, but that was…

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The issue of fake Internet users has been around for as long as the Internet, but it sure seems like they are really starting to proliferate. In the age of social networks and collaboration, this can be a real problem.…

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While this is not surprising, it is certainly unsettling: From the AVG Blog: Here is what we’ve found: 1 – The average age at which a child acquires an online presence courtesy of their parents is at six months, and…

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