CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OR LEARN MORE Sometimes, you have to try new things. So, here goes. I’m hosting a conference. Hopefully, a different kind of security conference. In Washington D.C., on Oct. 3. Please consider going, or share this invitation with someone who might be interested. Here’s the big [Keep reading]
How did the anonymous op-ed writer communicate with The New York Times, and how is the Times working to keep the identity of that person a secret? I posed this question to computer security friends recently as an academic exercise, but it’s not academic now. President Trump appeared on Friday [Keep reading]
I’m not really one for anniversary stories — they tend to be pretty artificial news hooks. But one year after what many think is the most significant hack of U.S. consumer data in history, it’s certainly worth taking stock of what’s happened since. For starters, Equifax has increased the amount [Keep reading]
Mark Zuckerberg never set out to be the world’s editor in chief, but here we are. And sorry Mark, you are a terrible front page editor. Hearings in Congress today dug into the weeds of why Americans feel like social media is letting them down — it was a ready-made [Keep reading]
The folks at Grow recently asked me to examine the potential for a cashless society recently. With each new cash-like app and each store that declines cash, a cashless world seems closer. But not so fast. My conclusion: Given that billions of notes are still in circulation – and cherished [Keep reading]
The most patriotic thing every American can do right now is avoid clicking on any links in emails. Ever. Log in to websites the old-fashioned way, by typing the URL in the web address field at the top of your screen. (Or copying and pasting a link you want [Keep reading]
“Hey – Let’s you and him fight!” is a game with two losers and one winner — the instigator who sits back and watches the other two fools fight. That’s what state-sponsored trolls are doing to America right now. Don’t fall for it. The latest example comes today from Facebook, [Keep reading]
Governments around the world are waging war on a new battleground: Social Media. Their fighting force is an army of trolls. And if you are reading this story, you’ve probably been drafted. Troll armies have helped overthrow governments and control populations. The playbook has been repeated in places like Turkey, [Keep reading]
“What kind of journalist are you? Do you write the truth? Or are you one of those fake journalists?” Because if you’re an honest journalist, that’s ok. But…” Moments earlier, I’d been having a lovely bar conversation with this man about beer at a brew pub while he pet Rusty. [Keep reading]
Not long ago, I was sitting in a coffee shop on Connecticut Avenue in Washington D.C. when I saw an alarming number of police and secret service cars zip by, lights blazing. It didn’t take long before we heard what was happening; a few blocks away, a crazy man was [Keep reading]
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