Curiosity in Practice
I am reading a book and one of the questions in it was “What are 5 things you do poorly?”. I thought it was a very interesting and thought provoking question. If the question was “What are 5 things you are super awesome at?” I could whip up at list without hesitation in about 5 … Read more
Today I got a bunch of questions from people who were woke up at 2330 last night because of an Amber Alert on their iPhone wondering what they could do about it. Sadly there’s no way to customize the alerts, they are either off or on. If you want to turn them off you need … Read more
I wanted to do a year end blog post and couldn’t come up with a good topic so I figured I would just list all the federal felonies people asked me to commit for them this past year by hacking the following: Bosses Gmail account Blog of a business rival Multiple wireless networks Twitter account … Read more
I have been asking my son for the last month what he wants Santa to bring him for Christmas. After many discussions and a huge list I had to tell him Santa only takes list of 5 items or less and that he would have to figure out what he really wanted. It got me … Read more
Yesterday was my 2nd day at Dell World and I spent a lot of to time talking to some really smart people about the future of the company. One of the coolest things I did was get some hands on time with Dell’s new ChromeBook the will come out next year. I also spent some … Read more
Yesterday was my first full day in Austin. I took some time early in the day to walk to the Capitol and discuss some security related issues with a friend of mine who works there. In the evening I was lucky enough to hop on the Dell DP bus and attend the #vBBQ at the … Read more
I am lucky enough to be an invited guest of Dell this week at DellWorld. They picked up the flights and hotel this week so I can share with you guys as a “social influencer”. I was scheduled to fly to Austin this morning but due to an ice storm in Dallas on Sunday my … Read more
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. – W.J. Cameron I stumbled across this quote late last week and it has kind of stuck with me while I get ready for some much needed time off and some quality family time. I don’t spend enough time heading that call to action beyond some … Read more
Please Vote For My Ugly Sweater!
From time to time I get called by small organizations, law firms and companies in my local area to do some consulting on security issues. Yesterday afternoon <redacted organization> called me and told me they were getting this pop up on one of their computers: That pop-up is known as CryptoLocker and once your machine … Read more