the wild web

Last week at CanSecWest, Alex Sotirov and Mike Zusman showed how extended validity (EV) certificates don't really provide much additiona...

I've been spending a lot of time thinking about context-based security decisions lately. These are decisions made on behalf of a websit...

I have been trying to keep this blog fairly technical, but since I haven't posted anything in a while and I've more or less changed ...

Yesterday my laptop's hard drive made some funny noises, so I shut the sucker down, and guess what? It wouldn't come back up. I rep...

Tax Phishing season is open. Go catch yourself a good one!

I'm a little disappointed at Apple. While I think the iPhone is a pretty nice piece of work and their browser is pretty nice too, I d...

According to my colleague at Symantec , Drive-By Pharming has been spotted in the wild . Maybe this indicates that attackers read academic ...

I'm traveling right now and I am taking along my teeny little 12" PowerBook which has been good to me for many years. Only, this t...