Copyright © What The Hell? Security There are 3 kinds of security in business: Good security, acceptable security and bad security. Good security is the kind that works for the business and for the people who work in it. It aligns with universally known objectives, and is communicated in a way that motivates people to [...]
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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 [...]
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Copyright © What The Hell? Security Few security happenings leave me speechless. The FTC’s insanely aggressive settlement over Twitter’s 2009 privacy gaffes practically yanked my tongue clear out of my mouth. First off, let’s be honest with ourselves for a minute. This is Twitter we’re talking about. Twitter isn’t a bank. It isn’t a medical institution. [...]
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Copyright © What The Hell? Security Paul Vixie, venerable champion of DNS, writes a brilliant piece titled What DNS Is Not. Vixie understands what most people don’t, or if they do, they’re too damn quiet about it. When you take a solution to one problem, and apply it against a different problem, you can create [...]
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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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