Category Archives: Security
Security Heartache
For the second time in as many months, a grave bug has emerged in core...
Calling for a uniform approach to card fraud, offline and on
This blog is an edited extract from an article of the same name, first published...
Who’s listening to Ed Snowden?
In one of the most highly anticipated sessions ever at the annual South-by-Southwest (SXSW) culture...
gotofail and a defence of purists
‘The widely publicised and very serious “gotofail” bug in iOS7 took me back … Early...
FIDO Alliance goes from strength to strength
With a bunch of exciting new members joining up on the eve of the RSA...
Security Isn’t Secure
That is, information security is not intellectually secure. Almost every precept of orthodox information security...
The Snapchat data breach
Yesterday it was reported by The Verge that anonymous hackers have accessed Snapchat’s user database...
The ROI for breaching Target
An unhappy holiday for Target customers A week before Christmas, Target in the US revealed...
My analysis of the FIDO Alliance
I’ve written a new Constellation Research “Quark” Report on the FIDO Alliance (“Fast Identity Online”),...
Are we ready to properly debate surveillance and privacy?
The cover of Newsweek magazine on 27 July 1970 featured an innocent couple being menaced...