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Hushmail turns over encrypted email to the Feds

And you thought your Hushmail email was secure and private….. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai.html –Chris Technorati Tags: Hushmail, encrytped email

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The best VC post I have seen

There are a couple of VC blogs / sites that I read religiously. They are Fred Wilson from AVC,  http://avc.blogs.com and Paul Graham, http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html Even though I am no longer looking for VC funding I still try to keep my eye on that ball. You never know when you might need one. Yesterday Fred Wilson [...]

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CSI 2007 Annual Conference

Its that time of year. The Computer Security Institute is holding its 2007 Annual conference in Alexandria, VA. The dates are November 3rd to November 9th.  For those of you going you can get $100 of the full conference fee by using the code CSI2007.  Conference details and registration can be found at www.csiannual.com. It [...]

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MikeTechShow.com live tonight

My friend Mike Smith from MikeTechShow.com will be live on ComputerAmerica tonight at 10:00 PM. Mike has has been podcasting for over 2 years now. I think Mike has an excellent technology podcast where he covers material for both the novice and experienced PC user. Recently he started streaming live video of his podcast on [...]

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Bad NIC strands 17,000 at LAX

A bad network card in a PC is blamed for a network outage that stranded more than 17,000 people at Los Angeles International Airport last weekend. Here is the story. Ouch… –Chris Technorati Tags: LAX, NIC, network outage

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Whitedust.net called it quits?

I was looking for something tonight and clicked a link to a page on Whitedust Security’s news site, Whitedust.net. When I clicked on the link I got a page with only this: 14 August 2007 – 23:58 GMT With the industry and those in it so seemingly hostile to Whitedust, and pure apathy from anyone [...]

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Is Data Leak Prevention the next “big thing” in security?

I experienced first hand the IPS hype cycle working for a vendor, from early commercial products in 2003 to more mainstream adoption in 2006. My NAC vendor experience was shorter but I still was there for the big hype late last year and early this year. Was there a hype for Data Leak Prevention solutions [...]

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Illinois PKI still going…

I saw this article on Network World that talks about Illinois’ PKI program and what steps they are taking to keep it moving forward. As someone who worked in the PKI space for a while it is interesting to see PKI still in action, and moving forward.  Public Key Cryptography is a great technology that [...]

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