Posts about cybersecurity, data protection, and secure coding practices
In the pantheon of spectacular IT disasters, few shine as brightly (or should I say darkly?) as the 2017 Equifax data breach. This wasn’t just …
In the annals of catastrophic data breaches, the 2017 Equifax incident stands as a special kind of security disaster—a perfect storm of negligence, …
It began, as many great security incidents do, with a seemingly innocent pull request to an obscure utility library. No one paid much attention to the …
The perimeter is dead. This mantra has been repeated so often in security circles that it’s become …
On April 20, 2011, millions of PlayStation users attempted to log into the PlayStation Network (PSN) and were greeted with an ominous message: …
“Your password is incorrect. Please try again.”
From the evening of June 15 through June 18, 2024, those seven words became a nightmare …