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Why Did A Security Firm Mysteriously Ditch a ‘Privacy’ Product?

2015-07-20/0 Comments/in Security Defitions, Security Job, Security Magazine, Security Practitioners/by fdesir

A posting from Forbes by Yael Grauer titled “Why Did A Security Firm Mysteriously Ditch a ‘Privacy’ Product?” : Two weeks after Ben Caudill announced that he’d built a $200 hardware proxy which allows Internet users to mask their location, the Rhino Labs owner shut down his project. His much anticipated August appearance at DEF CON, […]

Did Firefox listen to Facebook and just kill Flash? (No, but there’s another patch!)

2015-07-14/0 Comments/in Web Security/by fdesir

Did Firefox listen to Facebook and just kill Flash?

Why Did A Security Firm Mysteriously Ditch a ‘Privacy’ Product?

2015-07-20/0 Comments/in Security Defitions, Security Job, Security Magazine, Security Practitioners/by fdesir

Did Firefox listen to Facebook and just kill Flash? (No, but there’s another patch!)

2015-07-14/0 Comments/in Web Security/by fdesir

Did Firefox listen to Facebook and just kill Flash?

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Why Did A Security Firm Mysteriously Ditch a ‘Privacy’ Product?

2015-07-20/0 Comments/in Security Defitions, Security Job, Security Magazine, Security Practitioners/by fdesir

A posting from Forbes by Yael Grauer titled “Why Did A Security Firm Mysteriously Ditch a ‘Privacy’ Product?” :

Two weeks after Ben Caudill announced that he’d built a $200 hardware proxy which allows Internet users to mask their location, the Rhino Labs owner shut down his project. His much anticipated August appearance at DEF CON, the annual hacker convention in Las Vegas where he planned on selling the device at cost, was cancelled as well.

“People are always going to speculate despite what I say and don’t say,” Caudill told me when I asked him about the theory that he cancelled the project and talk for media attention. Although he repeatedly declined to offer details on the circumstances surrounding the cancellation, he pointed out that not all press is good press, and that the company had invested time and resources into the project. “The actual result of cancelling was for more negative than going through with it would have been,” he added, pointing out that a lot of time and energy and material costs were put into the project, which he worked on with a small team for about a year.

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Did Firefox listen to Facebook and just kill Flash? (No, but there’s another patch!)

2015-07-14/0 Comments/in Web Security/by fdesir

A posting from NakedSecurity by Paul Ducklin titled “Did Firefox listen to Facebook and just kill Flash? (No, but there’s another patch!)”

it seems that Flash exploit stories come along in bunches, too, like those pesky buses you wait for.

No sooner had we written about Facebook’s new CSO’s weekend “Death to Flash” tweet…

…than an eagle-eyed Naked Security reader pointed us at a tweet from someone going by @MarkSchimdty, who seems to be something of a anti-Flash hacktivist, considering the photo accompanying his tweet: