Confessions of a C-List Information Security Celebrity

PhoneBoy in PhoneBoy’s Security Theater

Jan 25, 2016

It could be that, among other things, retailers are reacting to shoppers’ sentiments. One in five consumers names transaction time as their biggest concern when using an EMV-enabled…

PhoneBoy in PhoneBoy’s Security Theater

Jun 8, 2016

Good Password Hygiene Key To Protecting Social Media Accounts

PhoneBoy in PhoneBoy’s Security Theater

Jan 28, 2016

Lead By Example

If the security industry itself can’t be bothered to fix security issues in a timely manner, how can we expect customers to apply…

PhoneBoy in PhoneBoy’s Security Theater

Feb 24, 2017

Cloudflares With a Chance of Goatse

As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Cloudflare had a case of CloudBleed, causing what amounts to a…

PhoneBoy in PhoneBoy’s Security Theater

Feb 12, 2016

Why I’m in Information Security, Apple Epoch Reboot Loop Edition

Undoubtedly you’ve heard by now of the bug that occurs when you manually set the date back on your 64-bit iOS device to 1/1/1970: the device gets locked in a reboot loop. If not, there’s an article on Ars Technica or…

PhoneBoy in PhoneBoy’s Security Theater

Dec 23, 2015

Palo Alto Networks Is Evading The Truth

Here’s a summary from A Letter to Palo Alto Networks Employees and Customers:

Vulnerabilities in several intrusion detection products were reported by The SANS Institute 3 years ago in a white paper called Beating the IPS, including…