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Federation of Excellence is not a thing

The term Center of Excellence is well known among the IT community, but can excellence be federated?

Jul 12, 2022

Image shows the head and part of the neck of a plush giraffe silhouetted against an empty spreadsheet displayed on a computer monitor.

Jul 12, 2022

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The first rule of Qualys Club is you don’t talk about Qualys Club

Here are three things that, if you are any kind of server or platform administrator, we know about you with a high degree of confidence:

Feb 17, 2022

Boromir from Lord of the Rings with the caption “One does not simply question the vuln scanner.”

Feb 17, 2022

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Butting heads with cloud security

My consulting clients are mostly large financial firms, and in recent years all of them have at least some footprint in public cloud…

Jan 21, 2022

Butting heads with cloud security

Jan 21, 2022

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Robocaller shows up in chat app

Two phone scammers walk into a bar to lament their declining revenue over drinks…

Aug 20, 2021

Two screen shots of a phone. On the left is a contact entry for “Robocall Hangup” with several associated phone numbers. On the right is a notification from a chat app that the same number is now available through that app and present in the in-app contact list.

Aug 20, 2021

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Digital identity’s Pogo problem

Tony Fish asks “Are we (the industry) the digital identity problem?” Yes, at foundational levels. This post discusses why that might be.

Aug 4, 2021

Screen shot of NoScript dialog for OrlandoSentinel.com shows 12 different domains from 10 different companies running scripts on the account creation page. This allows all of the 3rd parties to sniff the user session, including capturing credentials in real time as they are entered.

Aug 4, 2021

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Open Letter to Mike Lindell

How The My Pillow Guy can rehab his rep

Mar 4, 2021

Mar 4, 2021

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Who pays the hackers?

Who benefits the most from ad fraud? It may not be who you think.

Jul 11, 2019

Who pays the hackers?

Jul 11, 2019

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Pay-per-impression? Not impressed.

And by “not impressed” I mean that there’s a good chance that impression an advertiser paid for was coerced and likely causing bad will…

Jul 7, 2019

Pay-per-impression? Not impressed.

Jul 7, 2019

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Yandex & Facebook & Meddling, Oh My!

A couple of years ago I discovered that Yandex, roughly described as Russia’s equivalent of Google and a known SigInt partner of the…

Dec 20, 2018

Yandex & Facebook & Meddling, Oh My!

Dec 20, 2018

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Five things to take your line of smart home devices to the next level

An open letter to Samsung

Jul 2, 2018

Five things to take your line of smart home devices to the next level

Jul 2, 2018

T.Rob

T.Rob

WebSphere MQ security guy! My Tweets/views are my own. Also blogging at http://ask-an-aspie.net and http://tdotrob.wordpress.com

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