Copyright © What The Hell? Security [For context see "The FTC's Bitter-Tweet Victory over Twitter"] The Federal Trade Commission today issued a clarifying statement regarding its recently announced ruling that Twitter had not lived up to its promise of years past to protect consumers’personal information. “The FTC wishes to reiterate our ruling that Twitter did [...]
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Copyright © 2010 What The Hell? Security San Francisco, Calif. — A man who spent the last 9 years in a phishing-induced coma awoke today — only to relapse minutes later upon learning that absolutely no progress had been made on the anti-phishing scene since 2001. In an exclusive interview held at Sanford Wallace Memorial [...]
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Copyright © 2010 What The Hell? Security Back in the mid-1970s somebody came up with a clever way of flipping a penny into half a buck: the Lincoln-Kennedy Penny. The least interesting part of which was the defaced — well, technically it was enfaced — coin. What people were actually interested in was the litany of [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security It’s easy to jump to conclusions. I illustrated this to my youngest, who are twins, when they were five. [Sidebar: I wanted to do this when they were four. But that being the year they learned that racehorses used to end their careers in glue bottles, I figured [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security My previous entry likened security to an opposable thumb on the hand of reliability. This metaphor is also helpful when somebody asks you the dreaded “So, what’s the ROI on security?” Just hold up your palm and say “20% of this.” And if it’s your CFO asking, be [...]
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