Security Through Absurdity

My credit scores. I want my credit scores. I know you’ll give me a year of free credit monitoring, but I’m pretty sure that is only to t...

I won’t keep you hanging… … … much... the answer is no! If the answer was all you needed, then thank you for visiting my blog. If you woul...

I recently had an interesting conversation with Alex Gounares, the CEO at   Polyverse . Alex calls Polyverse’s security approach “Moving T...

The answer looks like yes, but ask a lawyer for a legal opinion. I have confirmation from a lawyer that I am correct. Comcast’s most rec...

At least yours shouldn’t. Your enterprise should not care about the 10,000 most common passwords and the reason is unbelievable! Out of the...

A long time ago an engineer invented a technology for computers called PCMCIA. To the best of my knowledge PCMCIA stands for P eople C an’t...

Despite the fact that sometimes I discuss serious security topics, the name of this blog is after all “Security through Absurdity” and so a...

Barkley, a self-proclaimed security company, has revived the 1990’s era Rosenthal Virus Simulator; an application that called false positiv...

The “I Can Use Facebook Any Time I Want To” Offspring Password Reset Attack No matter how ridiculous, every "cyberthreat" must...

It has been so long since I posted here that most of the posts were irrelevant. I did leave the two rules you damned well better know post t...

Phishing is a wide spread Internet plague that is often used to fraudulently obtain usernames and passwords, bank account numbers and PINs...

I will use this blog to comment on security and privacy issues, but now and then any topic will be fair game! Steganography at work here!