Stephen and Chey Cobb: Independent Researchers

Why do software makers think you want to live and breathe their product? More and more applications seem to think they are the only reason y...

So Microsoft has spent years perfecting a means of patching holes in its flagship product--the Windows XP operating system--holes that had l...

So, maybe the point of a blog is to publish stuff that others will not. Like stuff that I have written but some editor somewhere decided was...

Sigh...Some computer security vulnerabilities are timeless: "Fidelity Investments last week disclosed that someone made off with a lapt...

Wow, amazing how fast three months can pass. Here we are, late in January of 'oh six,' and I haven't even issued my annual procl...

According to Matt Hines, reporting a study by Consumer Reports WebWatch in eWeek on October 26, "U.S. Internet users are cutting back o...

I don't know if U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth fits the current definition of "activist judge" but he recently acted in wh...

Okay, I took two months off (that's why I called it a non-blog). Finally, Information Security Magazine published my column on dataflati...

I think this story will prove significant in the long run: LAS VEGAS -- 02:00 AM Aug. 01, 2005 PT -- Security researcher Mike Lynn roile...

I blame the long gap between posts on U2. A trip to see the band in concert, in Amsterdam, was my present to my wife on her birthday this ye...

I came up with the term dataflation to describe an emerging phenomenon, one that could have some fairly serious implications for the future...

We interrupt a series of postings about the abysmal state of affairs in the world of information security to bring you this heartening bulle...

I just got back from Nebraska and man are my arms tired (sorry, very old joke) but seriously, my brain did get tired. I took a very challeng...

So now we hear CitiFinancial is dropping backup tapes after data loss . Perhaps they're thinking that this announcement, together with...

Middle Aged White Guys have a reputation for complaining about things and I'm no exception. Ask me to name 3 things that suck and I woul...

This week we 'welcome' a division of Citigroup to the ranks of major companies that have fessed up this year to 'losing' cu...

Herewith, the obligatory first posting to Scobb's Non-Blog. So let me explain the title of this blog, which arises from three factors: ...