Securology

Anyone who pays any attention to DRM will extrapolate the general principle: You can never prevent an end-user who has physical control of...

Wouldn't it be really scary if physical locks in large planned cities like NYC were designed to use skeleton keys-- master keys that are...

Because you never know when you just might need to have this skill:

It's very common for Hello World example apps in textbooks or other educational literature to promote insecure software building practi...

With the news containing stories of malware distributing via compromised Certificate Authorities , it makes sense that some IT Security blo...

Bourtange Star Shaped Fort Taking a blast from the past that still has some application in today's physical security landscape ...  ...

Do you live in an area that is likely to have civil unrest and protests?  Perhaps having a Press Pass may get you out of trouble.  ITS Tacti...

The folks over at ITS Tactical have an interesting article on securely disposing paper documents . Here is an excerpt: Reconstruction ...

Do you have a house/door key lock that you no longer want somebody to have the ability to unlock, but you don't have time to change th...

A recent media buzz this week involves so-called "side channel" attacks or leakages of information from human brain to compute...

Reuters is running a story that should amuse any computer security professional: Experts hope to shield cars from computer viruses . An ...

Ken Thompson is on the left. That's not Adam Savage on the right. If you work in computer security or software development, and yo...

Breaking into a hotel room with less than $50 in hardware The technical security media has been all abuzz about a recent Black Hat prese...

It should come as no real surprise: MS-CHAPv2 is broken .  It's an ancient scheme.  If you were paying attention, you would have migrate...

Skype has had its moments in security history over the past several years, like the allegations that governments of certain countries have...

This is an interesting infographic that is floating around that depicts the statistical likelihood of dying from any given event. It...

This is an interesting article about recent studies in the psychology of honesty and lies .  Turns out that it's possible for a clever...

For your developer friends (or you), Troy Hunt made his book about the OWASP Top 10 web security flaws as implemented in .NET available as...

This is a bit of a stretch from the normal topics, but in a severe disaster scenario (think Hurricane Katrina or third world country), it ma...