I was recently asked by someone involved in policymaking for a short bulleted reading list on cybercrime and how to understand the major issues since they didn’t come from a technical background. I started writing the email and then realized I might as well post it here so I can…

And the champions just received their solid silver medals for solving the series. I wrote a book called Women In Tech that came out in 2016 which has become one of the top books on Amazon in their Career Guides lists, floating between top 10 and top 100 much of…

When you have little to no budget, how do you start spending on information security in a startup to protect customer data and operations? I was asked to comment on this via email by Zack Whittaker for a story he was doing on TechCrunch, and in responding, I found myself…

(originally posted https://tisiphone.net/2018/03/07/the-infosec-amnesty-qa/ with thanks to Lesley “Hacks4Pancakes” Carhart) Here’s why I know about this My tech journey started in academia, where I spent my time writing math in Java. As I transitioned more and more to tech, I ended up as the de facto PKI manager for several projects…

Just a few minutes ago, Twitter enabled the option to protect accounts with 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) without the user having to rely on SMS (Short Message Service, aka texting). …

Tarah Wheeler, hacker, & Sandy Clark, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Computer and Information Science ***These are the opinions of Tarah and Sandy, and do not represent the opinions of Symantec or the University of Pennsylvania*** Introduction Let’s all calm down when it comes to spreading FUD on the Internet about…