Keeping Privacy Afloat During a Pandemic

The world is navigating uncharted digital waters and facing evolving challenges to maintain patient privacy. Protected Health Information PHI is a ship sailing in a sea of digital risks and vulnerabilities. Humans wreak havoc at every turn - not always intentionally - and actions during times of...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of sj-tw-sec contain malicious code. The package downloads and runs a script that opens a reverse shell in the system. Recommendation Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer...

‘Snowden Refugee’ Has No Regrets for Helping Whistleblower

LEIPZIG, GERMANY – Refugee families located in Hong Kong that helped shelter Edward Snowden in 2013 are under crushing pressure to cooperate with local authorities or face deportation to their countries of origin, where they face an uncertain fate. However, despite years of what their lawyer call...

GDPR: A Compliance Quagmire, for Now

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR has gone into effect – but questions as to what compliance actually means are far from settled. While the GDPR is a European regulation, it affects any organization that handles data on E.U. citizens, whether they be customers or...

Please don’t buy this: smart locks

We all like buying the latest and greatest tech toy. It’s fun to get new and novel features on a product that used to be boring and predictable; a draw of the original BeBox amongst many was a layer of “das blinkenlights” across the front. But sometimes, the latest feature is not always the...

Marcus Hutchins' Only Certainty is Uncertainty

The particulars of Marcus Hutchins’ indictment last week on charges the WannaCry hero three years ago wrote a banking Trojan have created another divisive information security storyline. While experts in the community rallied over the weekend to raise funds for his bond and wrote letters of suppo...

Yahoo Tells SEC Executives Failed to Act on Breach

Yahoo’s quarterly SEC filings have been the only window into the massive data breaches that have exposed more than 1.5 billion records in the past four years. This week, Yahoo’s Q4 2016 filing was made public, and the view got uglier. The company admitted to the SEC and its investors that its...

Not So Fast! Boyd OODA Looping Is More Than Speed

The name "John Boyd" and the term "OODA Loop" are probably familiar to many of the readers of this blog. I've mentioned one or the other in 2006, 2007, 2009 twice, and 2014. Boyd was a fighter pilot in the Korean war and revolutionized thinking on topics like fighter design and military strategy...

Amazon Web Service Down, No Timeline for Remedy

Amazon Web Service’s AWS Elastic Compute Cloud EC2, based in Northern Virginia, went offline early this morning, taking with it a number of popular sites including, news aggregator Reddit and question and answer site and TechCrunch darling, Quora.The Web hosting firm’s Relational Database Service...