One of our consultants brought a great write up on Dan Egerstad, the Swedish security consultant who set up a series of Tor servers designed to promote anonymous browsing. Unfortunately, the organizations deciding to adopt Tor forget that unencrypted traffic can still be read, captured, and exploited. This brings up an interesting trend though. Why are people still not protecting their internet traffic? I’m not talking about browsing around and picking up the next Super Mario Bros game at Amazon, but using Outlook for email via POP3/IMAP. Compound this with the problem that most people are remiss in using unique passwords for your key accounts, and you can see how a nefarious organization with a little bit of technology could ...

Todd Wilkens posted about his personal war against Blackberries this month. As a consultant, it is not only hard to conduct meetings (where we are getting paid by the hour) with customers when this happens, but I have been tempted to do the same thing as well! I think we all tune out at some point when it comes to meetings, especially those after lunch ones. What I’m interested to know is if anyone has ever suffered a breach due to a lost blackberry. With the amount of scrutiny over email these days, I know that some caution is taken. That said, I also know that humans are lazy people and email is very pointy/clicky. I’ve seen executives forward extremely ...

With numerous retailers putting offers both online and in the store, how many of you are making the rush? Maybe because I can remember hitting the mall VERY EARLY in the morning on Black Friday as a kiddo I have never taken part in this. We also have family things going on that day, so it makes it a little bit harder. My advice to retailers, watch out. As we saw back in July, cards stolen in the TJX breach this year could likely be used on the busiest day of the year. Many years ago, I worked retail and learned to dread the day after Thanksgiving. Even on our busiest times, you could at least walk through the store ...