Google to Make Certificate Transparency Mandatory By 2017

Google is making Certificate Transparency mandatory for its Chrome web browser by October 2017. Google software engineer Ryan Sleevi made the announcement in conjunction with the CA/Browser Forum that took place in Redmond, Washington last week. The move is an attempt to reduce the number of doma...

Audio Video Media Forensics

Our media forensics practice is a fast growing part of Coalfire. Were often asked what we can do, and this post is intended to be a quick primer to provide some background if youre in need of this service and what you can expect from us and others in the field...

If we stand still, we go backwards

Recently, ppk claimed the web is going too fast in the wrong direction, and asked for a year's moratorium on web features. I was so angry I ran straight to a dictionary to find out what "moratorium" meant. Turns out it means "suspension". I got a bit snarky about it on Twitter, which isn't really...

Mozilla recommends the use of Open Source Browsers against State Surveillance

After the revelations from NSA internal documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the world knows the NSA as the Real Techie Gangster of this 21st Century, with the ability to brutally infiltrate every kind of electronic device, the Internet, and global communications. "It is becoming increasingly...

CPOs Challenged with Meeting Privacy Expectations and Maintaining Full User Experience

SAN FRANCISCO – People who interact with online services have mounting privacy expectations that run in parallel with their need for a full experience with the functionality central to those services. But can users have their privacy cake and eat it too? That’s the challenging question facing...

Security Worth Buying

I’m a dirty vendor. That may not be the best way to start a serious dialogue about security product effectiveness, but I hate to read a post on security theory by some insincere tie-wearing wonk only to discover afterwards that he or she is Lord High Poobah of Marketing at “Scaring You For Profit...