Why don’t we sit around this computer console and have a sing-along?

Harnessing fire is one of mankind's earliest technological advances. A controlled, tame fire offers us warmth, light and succulent cooked food. Yet, allow the controlled fire to burn too fiercely and it risks becoming an uncontained fire. The unexpected smell of smoke or the sight of tall flames...

Lift and drag: confronting complacency and disrupting inertia in cybersecurity strategy

Within corporate cybersecurity, resistance presents in a variety of forms. Individuals and institutions alike often face overwhelming peer pressure to "keep doing what made us successful in the past." In the face of that pressure, it can be difficult to generate or sustain momentum toward...

How to Make Sure Your Browser Extensions Are Safe

As useful as all those add-ons can be, don't get complacent when it comes to making sure they're also secure...

Black Hat 2015 Keynote Jennifer Granick

LAS VEGAS – The Internet is barreling down the same road of regulation and not-so-subtle censorship that has turned every other means of mass communication into a centralized and vanilla fountain of useless information. Kinda like television. That’s the fear that today Black Hat keynoter Jennifer...

Gartner's Pescatore: Cybersecurity Complacency Everywhere

ZDNet’s Larry Dignan has an interesting report on Gartner security guru John Pescatore providing his 2010 cyberthreat assessment, noting that not a lot has changed — other than the complacency levels of companies that are supposed to be protecting your data...