Cloud Computing

The DigiNotar Breach: Another Exposure of Negligence

Posted by on September 6, 2011 at 5:39 pm

In case you have not heard, another SSL Certificate provider, Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar, a subsidiary of Vasco Data Security, was breached recently and from the preliminary report coming from the company that did an audit, it looks pretty bad. Some of the names in the list of bogus certificates generated by the attackers include [...]

Privacy: How To Lock Down Google’s Chrome Browser

Posted by on July 8, 2011 at 3:20 pm

Google’s Chrome browser is quickly becoming a favorite of users in the ever competitive Internet browser market mostly because of its perceived speed and clean interface. A lot of the accolades are warranted, but my focus in this write-up is on the area of user data privacy and how the Chrome browser seems to have [...]

The iCloud and Another Cry of The Death of Windows

Posted by on June 14, 2011 at 4:34 am

Apple has thrown its hat into the cloud “gold rush” ring and all of a sudden, we have started hearing the old but boring cries of the death of Windows. A lot of noise is being made about Steve Jobs’ statement that “We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a [...]

The RSA Breach: Time for Full Disclosure?

Posted by on June 3, 2011 at 12:06 pm

As more companies with national security interests come forward with admission of breaches related to the hacking of RSA’s SecurID technology, one wonders if it is time for RSA to break its stubborn refusal to tell the public what exactly was stolen or when the breach actually occurred. At this stage, it is not just [...]

Encryption Tools for the Mobile Executive

Posted by on May 28, 2011 at 10:49 am

Most companies provide their senior executives with laptops or netbooks and tablets so they can be productive even when on the road. This is even more true of corporates executives who sometimes demand anytime, anywhere access to data residing on corporate servers. The big corporations can afford to spend millions of dollars on data protection [...]