Strategic direction: security ebb
Something quite prominent happened in the security field over the last week. It is a strategic move so I am going to talk about it here rather than on Holy ...
Mitigating risks … is a waste of money?
There was an interesting talk at one of the panels at the RSA Conference, where SilverSky and Adobe claimed that investing in security is a waste of money. Their message ...
Everything is a hammer…
It looks like for Stephen Elop, the Microsoft manager in charge of Nokia, everything looks like a Windows computer. What is all this nonsense about Nokia delivering cheap smartphones in ...
Software Security Philosophy
What is “security”? Well, not in broad sense, that is, but in software security? What does it mean: to develop secure software? What do we understand to fall into the ...
State of security – still miserable
Even after all these years the software industry seems to be ever in a state where we believe that if vulnerability exists but is unknown to the public it cannot ...
The Future of NFC Payments
Someone asked me to provide feedback on an article regarding The Future of NFC Payments (yes, capitalized, like in “Big Future”). I do not cherish the idea of giving up ...
Near Field Communication (NFC)
I stumbled upon an article in PopSci (Popular Science?) on-line publication titled Everything You Need to Know About Near Field Communication. My opinion is that many of the things described ...