RSA bribed to the tune of millions by the NSA

News that the NSA had requested the RSA to implement backdoors in their encryption has been known since September . Recently however it has come to light that the NSA bribed the RSA to the tune of $10million for these flaws to be kept in. Reuters reported on this Friday, citing that: “Undisclosed until now was […]

Department of Energy – a perfect model of Swiss cheese

In a recent published report on the DoE’s security breaches, Inspector General Gregory Friedman cited huge flaws in the departments network. In July of 2013 the DoE was again hacked, having been already hacked multiple times since 2011, this time more than 100,000 individuals had their information taken. Important information including: social security numbers, bank […]

Derby Con 3.0 Talk Accepted

My talk  “So you want to be a pen tester?” was accepted by DerbyCon. Come out and support me – or at least by me a beer :).  Per one of my previous posts – all monies earned for the talk will be donated to HFC. I would also like to do something different – […]

Capture the Flag

Recently, I attended CSC’s (my current employer) technology conference down in New Orleans. While there I participated in the CTF run by Symantec and got second place. So why brag about second place – that is exactly what my goal was. Not first. Ok I know what you might be thinking why not go for […]