Probing the Whole Internet for Weak Spots

When a major flaw in the encryption that secures websites was revealed this March, Zakir Durumeric, a research fellow at the University of Michigan, was the first person to know how serious it was. By performing a scan of every device on the Internet, he realized its...

Is Amazon AWS Really HIPAA Compliant Today?

Amazon released a whitepaper called ‘Creating HIPAA-compliant Medical Data Applications with AWS’.  There is plenty to comment on, but for now I want to draw attention to some security concerns I have around AWS and thus its current readiness to handle data that...

Thank you Sony! Cybersecurity stocks soar

The massive Sony hack may have killed “The Interview,” but it’s breathing new life into cybersecurity stocks. Wall Street is betting all the attention on the Sony incident will encourage companies to ramp up spending to defend themselves from a...