In February this year we launched ThinkstScapes as a Security Intelligence subscription service. It was originally aimed chiefly at adding context & clarity to newly published research and conference proceedings. The subscription also catered for periodic updates and commentary via “Ad Hoc” updates. We just wrapped Quarter-1, so figured a quick round-up of Q1 would make sense. Interestingly the adhoc updates turned out to be quite popular with customers (forcing us to pay far more attention to them) and in …
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I wrote a piece for Al Jazeera on cyber-war, asymmetry and the recent news around possible military reprisal for cyber attacks. You can read the full piece [online here.] …
*oops* We forgot to mention that we updated iTried in the App Store. (iTried is the tiny app that takes a photograph on your Mac whenever the screensaver is disturbed). The new version will allow you to post the pic to twitter whenever it takes one (or whenever it can) which gives you 2 cute possibilities: The ability to remotely see who has been at your Mac The all important ability to track you own haircut over time ;> Check …
We wanted to quickly announce the availability of http://cc.thinkst.com (a resource in need of it’s own domain & a better name.) CC is a simple application that aims to give us a single point where one can search and browse infosec conference talks and materials*. Quick OverviewOne of the cool things about having all of this data in a central db is that we are just as easily able to search by topic (http://cc.thinkst.com/searchMore/foo/) as we are by speaker (http://cc.thinkst.com/searchMore/halvar/)Finding …
The folks over at the Infosec Network have recently started doing interviews with security researchers. They have interviewed some real rock stars so far ([Charlie Miller], [HD Moore], [Joanna Rutkowska], [David Litchfield], [Matthieu Suiche], [Dan Kaminsky], and [Jeremiah Grossman] ) so i was pretty flattered when they asked me.. My interview is up [here] complete with dodgy photo and embarrassingly bad answers.. …
The Verizon RISK Team has once again released their annual Data Breach Investigations Report. [Grab it Here] Once more, the report makes for interesting reading and this year the discussion point is bound to be the marked decline noted in compromised records (From 361 million in 2008, to 144 million in 2009, to 4 million in 2010). We will kick off a ThinkstScapes adhoc update to customers analyzing the report, but thought one of the interesting points to note was …
I wrote a piece on Cyber War, and what the recent HBGary breach teaches us about the current landscape. While I still feel bad for anyone who has their mail spool exposed to the world, the HBGary mails give us an interesting insight into a part of the world seldom seen by all. Check it out [here] …
(This Post was written for ITWeb for the Upcoming ITWeb Security Conference) A security guy talking about impending doom. How rare! Except I’m not talking about the next Botnet, virus or nuclear reactor destroying worm, I’m talking about the crisis of confidence that’s heading our way, and the fact that we seem completely oblivious to its arrival. We (in the field) have been building a house of cards, and some day really soon it’s going to come down around us. …
The guys over at the Eurotrash Information Security Podcast had me on last week. We discussed HBGary, Thinkst, ZaCon and a bunch of other stuff.. It was pretty enjoyable (although i tried listening to myself and think its a lucky thing i dont do this too often). You can grab it [here] …
A quick note to Welcome Jameel Haffejee (email) to Thinkst. Some of you might remember him as “the guy who did the Power Shell talk at Zacon2”.. (The talk was cool, but (in truth) I remember him as the guy that sponsored the coffee!) Jameel has signed up as a Developer and future world-denter, so you should be reading more of him here soon.. Hello World! …