Essays

Adding Guardrails To A Cloud Account After The Fact

Setting a new cloud account well is reasonably simple, but what about accounts that are already active? Here are some tips to add guardrails after the fact.

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Update Your iPhone Now (iOS 14.4.1)

iOS 14.4.1 fixes a couple of critical cybersecurity issues. Make sure to update now.

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Clubhouse's Entirely Predictable Privacy and Moderation Issues

Clubhouse is the hot new social network. It's a promising audio-only network that now boasts over 2 millions active weekly users. During this rise, it's committed some easily avoidable and obvious mistakes around privacy and content moderation. Can they recover?

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Security and Privacy Are Linked

Security and privacy are linked yet for some reason, you see privacy experts ignoring the impact of security and security experts who are unconcerned with privacy. Why?

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Major Ransomware Services Busted

Emotet and NetWalker are both taken offline within days of each. A big wins for users, law enforcement, and international cooperation...at least for a little while.

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Parler Pas: Fringe Social Network Offline

Parler gets deplatformed and can't find any organizations that want to work with it. It's about time.

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AWS re:Invent 2020, Week Three

Week three of three (!) for AWS re:Invent 2020 kicks off and this post will be my "live blog" for the week. Check back often for reactions, news, and tips on how to get the most out of the week.

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AWS re:Invent 2020, Week Two

Week two of three for AWS re:Invent 2020 kicks off and this post will be my "live blog" for the week. It will be neither "live" not probably completed this week. Check back often for reactions, news, and tips on how to get the most out of the week.

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