David Holmes

Travel pressure around privacy and compliance is forcing mobile endpoint software to evolve. Media coverage of recent airport phone searches has privacy enthusiasts worried,...

1992 was both an ending and a beginning. It was the year I lost my beloved grandfather, and I’ll never forget his final words...

Forward Secrecy’s day has come – for most. The cryptographic technique (sometimes called Perfect Forward Secrecy or PFS), adds an additional layer of confidentiality...

The first time I heard about distributed brute-force login attacks was from master web application firewall (WAF) administrator Marc LeBeau. At the time he...

An orchard of cybersecurity law is growing in Asia. Now based in Singapore, your intrepid reporter is bumping into these cyber laws not as...

At a white elephant party in northern Colorado in December, a friend of mine was telling me that he’d borrowed against his children’s college...

At least two additional security vendors, including IBM and Palo Alto Networks, have been added to the list of vendors vulnerable to a variation...

What a timely way to end this series on Threat Modeling the Internet of Things (IoT). An advanced thingbot, nicknamed Reaper (or IoTroop), was...

Even with catchy branding and cute mascot and a theme song, these two SSL/TLS vulnerabilities nearly went unnoticed last week. The WPA2 Key Reinstallation...

For the first time, one of the largest cyber security conferences in the ASEAN region, the Singapore Internet CyberSecurity Week (SICW), had a track...

I’ve been attending the DEF CON hacker conference for 18 years. This year, I was starting to think “I’m too old for this stuff!”...

One of the most bizarre beginnings in movie history involved a young Paul Newman decapitating a streetful of Duncan Model 50 parking meters in...

Part 1 of this series posited that the Internet of Things (IoT) needs a more rigorous security application than it currently has, lest we...

In 1969, Apollo 11 landed men on the moon, marking the first time in human history that people walked on a surface other than...

Sometimes a headline succinctly and cleverly captures the essence of a simple situation. Note last week’s headline about the apprehension of a nearly naked...

This time every year I tell myself the same thing: “You’ve got to cut back on the drinking.” But I’m not about to listen...

Municipal planners in Europe are embracing digital technologies to deliver various services to the citizens. Smart-city services connect Internet-enabled sensors on buses, in rental...

Are Too Many Companies Putting Identity and Access at Unnecessary Risk in Their Move to the Cloud?I was chatting with the CSO of a...

DynDNS (or just Dyn now) got blasted with #DDoS twice last Friday. Since Dyn is the major DNS provider for Twitter, Github, and Spotify,...