Infosec Practitioner
It is described at times as an arms race. Information Security always seems to be behind the bad guys. Can this ever change? We all know the routine by now. New exploit, new signatures, new patches, new updates, new exploits. Rinse, lather, and repeat. We hear of the next big thing to be adaptive. Heuristic…
For years there has been the whole what is more secure, Open or Closed source? Microsoft has and still takes a beating over this. Truth, though, is a different thing. We all have heard of Heartbleed by now. The 2 year old security gap in OpenSSL has been all over the news. During all of…
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It is that time of year. Holiday shopping, Black Friday, Cyber Monday (that still sounds like a XXX movie), and the like. Special offers abound, and the bad guys are ready to get you. Some simple steps to stay safer during the holidays. This is the time of year that the criminal digital underground loves….