One of the big questions that I often get is: How does someone become successful in a cybersecurity career? In this blog I want to share with you the three key lessons I’ve learned during my 18-year journey in the cybersecurity industry. These lessons have paved the way for my success, and I believe they […]
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Let’s talk about a topic that’s incredibly important for your privacy and data security. In this blog I’m going to talk about why you should opt out of the sharing of CPNI data and why that seemingly simple annual email from your mobile phone provider is more significant than you might think. What is CPNI?
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If you attended my talk “Using Technology to Defend Digital Privacy & Human Rights”, thank you! Here’s a list of supplemental material discussed during the presentation as well as where you can find out additional information about the topics covered. I’m happy to answer any questions that you might have via Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
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Kevin Johnson and I will be speaking at Notacon this Saturday at 1pm! We are giving our third and final Social Zombies talk on hacking Geolocation and social networks: Social Zombies Gone Wild: Totally Exposed and Uncensored. Lot’s of fun is planned!
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I have updated the Facebook Privacy & Security Guide to version 2.2 over on SocialMediaSecurity.com. If you’re not familiar with the guide it is an easy to use guide which helps you set the recommended privacy and security settings on your Facebook account. It’s free, printable and meant to be shared. This update includes details
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Ever since I started the Facebook Privacy & Security Guide back in October 2008 I knew that Facebook’s privacy settings were confusing for the average user. Many of my concerns back then centered around friends and family that had no idea there were even privacy settings to configure on Facebook. It has also never been
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As most major news organizations and blogs have covered the changes that Facebook has made from a high level, I wanted to focus this post specifically on Facebook’s “Open Graph”, “Social Plugins” and “Instant Personalization”. In my opinion, these are three changes that will significantly impact the way you and your friends use Facebook. As
Everyone has probably already heard that Facebook rolled out new privacy settings today. If you haven’t seen them or gotten the following pop-up box on login…you will soon: There are a great deal of articles already out about how this is such a great improvement and how these new settings give you more control over
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I wanted to get this post up before I leave for DefCon since it will be hard to have time to blog in Vegas. In a nutshell, I started a new web site called socialmediasecurity.com. This was originally a project that I started to move my social media research over to a separate web site
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This is really cool. The guys that brought you the JanusVM Internet Privacy Appliance are about to release instructions on how to make a hardware privacy adapter. What is a hardware privacy adapter you ask? Via Hack a day: “It’s a small two port router. You just plug it in-line between your computer’s switch and
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