Mobile Privacy, Security and Celebrities

03.17.12 Posted in Data Breach, Mobile Privacy by

There have been a number of recent stories with celebrities photos being leaked online, including Scarlet Johansson, Christine Hendricks, Olivia Munn and more. I was interviewed by Fox News regarding how celebrities can better protect themselves. The obvious answer is to not take the photos and store them on their devices or in the cloud [...]


Scarlet Johansson Leaked Photos EXIF Data

09.14.11 Posted in Data Breach, Hacking, Privacy by

Recently Scarlet Johansson has been added to the list of celebrities who have had photos taken on their phone compromised. The media is stating this is an apparent ring of hackers that are stealing the data from celebrities phones and laptops, however this theory seems suspect. More likely is that the images are being stolen [...]


Mobile Startup Privacy & Security

05.07.11 Posted in Data Breach, Tutorial by

Over the past few months we have seen a number of large scale data breaches from high profile companies such as Sony, RSA, Epsilon and NASDAQ . These are well established companies, some even from the security industry that are falling prey to hackers, showing that even those investing large amounts of money in security [...]


Sony PSN Data Breach – Plain Text vs Hashed Passwords Explained

04.29.11 Posted in Data Breach, Tutorial by

There have been a rash of data breaches where passwords have been compromised that were stored as plain text and not converted to a one-way hash as they should be. However, most consumers and even many developers particularly in startups don’t know about the best practice of hashing passwords, what it means and how it [...]