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Resting on One’s Laurels

In a recent article iPhone shell code hits the web HD Moore, creator of the Metasploit Framework describes how combining members of a set of implementation bugs in applications on Apple’s iPhone with a design flaw results in a ripe opportunity for landing shell code or otherwise controlling the phone’s various hardware goodies (camera, mic, [...]

One View of Why Risk Management Takes Too Long

As I get back into the risk management arena after a sojourn in knowledge management (mainly designing knowledge-driven offerings and monetizing the associated intellectual property), I find yet another example of “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” I think the executive view of information security risk management techniques as viable decision [...]

A Tale of Two Banks

In the past few weeks I have started work on a major software development effort. It is a very complex bit of software for capturing images from high-performance cameras and reducing them mathematically to functions used in high-end digital rendering. The process is very complicated mathematically and computationally intense, in some cases requiring as much [...]