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As you may recall, late last fall, Sony Pictures Entertainment acknowledged that their entire IT infrastructure had been severely breached.  At the time, the attackers were announced to be the North Koreans.  But serious analysis absent political axes to grind has put that conclusion in…

What price do we pay to play our favorite games?  Especially the "free" ones? Privacy.  It's not that we don't value it.  We do; we treat it as currency.  And it's sobering how lavishly we spend it. I just sampled the permissions requested by the…

My home tech to-do list (in no particular order) Network Zones: I would like three segregated network zones in our home LAN.  One for our general purpose computers, one for our Android and BlackBerry devices, and one for our printers and connected entertainment boxes (Roku,…

Every month at my office, I hold an informal Lunch & Learn.  I take the opportunity to enlighten any of my colleagues who want to listen about some topic related to Information Security.  This is available to anyone in our IT operation who's interested, anywhere…

In a summary report by a researcher from GFI Software, a security products company, we learned yesterday that the count of vulnerabilities discovered in 2014 was up over the previous year. Who wants pie? The counts of the vulnerabilities researchers have discovered in your software…