Infosec Practitioner
Android is the most popular mobile OS in the world. It also has some of the most frightening security holes, currently Stagefright. The carriers know this and use it to legally to seemingly extort their customers. Apple has one thing that Android doesn’t have, and that is a decent patch cycle. You can see people…
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Last week, the Office of Personnel Management revealed it had been hacked. The White House and FBI are wanting backdoors in encryption. The world of politics not only wants us to be spied upon, but less secure and then complains about being hacked. The “fun” of a bill such as CISA is how vague they…
After a few years of swearing up and down, I finally made it to Thotcon. It was definitely an experience with good and bad. I found out about Thotcon a few years ago, but it always seemed to either conflict with my schedule, or I couldn’t get time off work for it. This year was…