Identity Officer

This morning, Dave Kearns of KuppingerCole revived an old conversation started by my friend Matt Pollicove of CTI back in 2006 about the potential need for an Identity Officer. I had some comments then, but I wanted to add another thought now that I’m …

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Fake Opera ‘update’ pushes Zbot malware

Norway’s Opera Software has issued an advisory this week detailing a June 19 attack by hackers who breached the company’s network and used one of its older, expired code-signing certificates to digitally sign a Zeus-based piece of malware and package i…

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Facebook Fix SMS Hack Bug

A UK security researcher has disclosed a bug in Facebook’s code that allowed him to take over any Facebook account in less than a minute – and earned himself a $20,000 bug bounty in the process.

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Bruce Schneier joins EFF; stays with BT

Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies and other books, founder of Counterpane (now BT Managed Security Solutions), and designer of the Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms, has joined the board of EFF.

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