Stephen and Chey Cobb: Independent Researchers

WARNING: Enom Phishing Scam Domain Name News : "We have received several reports of phishing scam emails that at first glance appear to...

Ten years ago I started to alert my clients to the emergence of privacy as the new "driver" of data security. Eight years ago I s...

The outbreak of spam that pretends to be a news alert from CNN has now morphed into "BREAKING NEWS" from MSNBC, like this message ...

I have received a handful of these in the past few days, messages that look like they could be a CNN news alert that I had signed up for, ex...

My brother, Mike, has been busy this week, responding to questions about the latest Ponemom Institute survey, which suggests a heck of a lot...

If this wasn't in the Washington Post I would think it was a hoax: Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border . More than anything...

There won't be any new posts here for a while, but you can catch the latest news and views at Cobbsblog.com .

Interesting study indicates banks cannot substitute a virtual presence for local branches and a commitment to community. Nearly three-quart...

I found a handy set of pages by a Victor Ng titled What SMBs Need to Know About Computer Security Threats in a publication called SMBedge ...

Here is a pretty good reason to make sure your company is doing a good job of protecting customer data: TJX: Data breach damage $25 million ...

As predicted, by myself and numerous other information security experts, lawsuits are becoming an increasingly common response to a security...

A reported in PCToday, Penn College Students Win Award for Computer-Security Video . This is REALLY encouraging. Congratulations guys! I am ...

Nice article by David Colker of the LA Times, republished here in the Chicago Tribune: Public Wi - Fi may turn your life into an open note...

Remember when SPECTOR stood for Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Revenge and Extortion?** Now comes Spector CNE - one of a group...

Remember last summer when the warnings about a surge in image spam started to appear? (Image spam being defined as unsolicited commercial e...

What better way to spend a rainy April day than white hat hacking? Experience the thrill of hacking with none of the guilt. I highly recomme...

So, you've filed your tax return and put away your tax papers until next year, but how much of the very personal information on those ta...

If you are using Windows and value your time, do this: 1. Go to the Control Panel for Automatic Updates 2. Change the setting from "Aut...

As enterprises explore Software as a Service, security experts like David Brussin are keeping a watchful eye . Clearly there are serious sec...

This article, Security Appliances Come to Dodge, by Drew Robb , reminded me of a train of thought I have been following for a while. Here...

Referring to my previous post about the threat of spying as a "driver" in information system security, this just in: Oracle recent...

A rash of recent reports seem to revolve around the great ease and small cost of registering domains. Perhaps it is time to revert to some o...

I love it when people ask questions about security that cannot be answered definitively, questions like: "What are the three most serio...

Nice article here from Sandra Rossi of Computerworld (Australia) on the cost of security breaches: Data leaks equal 8 percent drop in revenu...

The Times Union of Jacksonville carried an interesting story about hard drives a few days ago. Seems a local businessman had taken his comp...

A couple of days ago I participated in a Ziff Davis Virtual Tradeshow on Security Management. This was a "live" event for one day ...

Two eWeek headlines appeared this week, as if on queue, one right after the other: Google Patches Security Vulnerability in Desktop Search ...

I've been saying this for several months now. I highlighted it in my keynote at the Enterprise Security Asia conference. Google could be...

You can't read all the security pundits all the time, but I usually take time to read Larry Seltzer at eWeek. So I am not knocking Larry...

I recently asked my good friend and security guru David Brussin for his thoughts on emerging threats to enterprise security. In response he ...

That's right, my brother Mike, the younger one (and some would say, the smarter one) is a fellow author and CISSP. And he has pulled tog...