Security Through Absurdity

Primarily I will discuss security and privacy issues. Many of the blogs will be serious but the absurd will make it in sometimes too.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Who Is Killing The Anonymizing VPNs?

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The primary use for a VPN is to keep data encrypted from the point of origin to its destination. For corporations this means that when you s...
Friday, December 1, 2017

RFID Tags in Clothing – What Could Go Wrong

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Sometimes we need a break from all of the serious security issues we deal with and talk about. This blog is a break from breaches, sabotage,...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Sometimes It Isn’t All About Russia

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Saying that Russia has been in the news for espionage and hacking, etc. is like saying there’s oxygen in the air – it seems we breathe that ...
Saturday, November 4, 2017

Internal Audits, Lawsuits, and Love Letters

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What Comes to the Business Center Computer Stays on the Business Center Computer Several examples of data left behind on public computers ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Cleaning and Gutting Phish for Beginners

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To start with, beginners don’t usually clean phish but anyone can help to get the cleaning process started. Admitting that someone else has ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Living With Brian Cassin – CEO, Experian

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I have to change my address again. I don’t like where Bank of America has moved me to so I am going to move to 475 Anton Blvd., Costa Mesa, ...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

VirusTotal, Equifax, and Antimalware Products

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There is a subtle precision in the statement “VirusTotal only showed three antimalware scanners detecting malware.” If you think that means ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

New Equifax Website Compromise

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Update: Third party analysis tends to indicates something that is conceptually the same as malvertising. Watch the video and replace Equifax...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Equifax Caught Experian Falsifying My Personal Information

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One of the silver linings of the Equifax breach is their free identity theft protection. Perhaps that is the only silver lining. I was skep...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Equifax: Here Is What I Want From You

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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...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Will Passphrases Kill the Password Managers?

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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...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Evasion and Regeneration; Decoys and Deception

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I recently had an interesting conversation with Alex Gounares, the CEO at   Polyverse . Alex calls Polyverse’s security approach “Moving T...
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Randy Abrams
I am passionate about helping users to be more secure on the Internet. I have presented at dozens of international security conferences and serve on the board of directors for AVAR (Association of Anti-virus Asia Researchers. I have written many blogs aimed at average users and have created educational presentations aimed at non-technical users. My work experience includes 12 years at Microsoft. For seven of those years I was responsible for preventing the release of infected software. At ESET I blogged, participated in over 200 podcasts, provided analysis and commentary for journalists writing about security and privacy issues. I also provided training for partners throughout the world. At NSS Labs I focused on the analysis of endpoint protection (antimalware) tests.
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