On Thursday, February 28, day four of RSA Conference, people congregated at the panel The Loophole: Federal Crimes Not Being Addressed. The panel featured business professionals and academics with expertise in technology, copyright issues, and censorship law. Moderated by Impermium CEO, Mark Risher, the panel used several real-life examples to illustrate the grey area faced by...
It’s our second installment of our series highlighting and summarizing the week’s biggest headlines in cybersecurity. In case you missed any of the news stories this week, we’ve highlighted and summarized a few the latest in security flaws, hackings, and cyber espionage accusations for your reading pleasure. Hackers Publish Large Amount of Bank of...
There’s a category of malicious and illegal activities happening every day on the Internet, yet unclear regulations and technical limitations leave site owners in a grey area regarding liability. In The Loophole, a panel of experts will take part in a heated debate surrounding these issues, covering what content is covered, who is responsible, where...
It seems like every week is an eventful week in cybersecurity, and this week didn’t fall short of company data breaches, celebrity hackings, and government executive orders. In case you missed any of the big news stories this week, we’ve highlighted and summarized a few for your reading pleasure. U.S. is the Target Of...
Cyberstalking has been on the front page of tabloids recently, reporting on the harassment of celebrities such as Alyson Hannigan and Avril Lavigne. Harassed for weeks, Miranda Kerr shouted back at her cyberstalker after she met with police and cyber security officials to report the incident. You don’t have to be a supermodel to be...
Using no more processing power than what’s found inside a basic smartphone, it is now possible to generate all possible 8-letter passwords in a few hours. Even scarier, noted security researcher and Twitter security chief Moxie Marlinspike offers a cloud service that can do it in about 20 minutes. With stats like these – which...
How well do you know your social network? Chances are you didn’t attend Sunday school with everyone you’ve friended over the years, and there are often a few people you’re not entirely positive you ever met. But with the way our online identities are increasingly linked, all it takes is one less-than-discriminating friend in your...
Last week, I talked about some of the challenges I’ve seen while trying to mold teams to fit rigid, defined processes that supposedly work for everyone. Here, I’d like to talk about how we’ve evolved our process to fit the individual team at Impermium. Getting to this point was difficult for me. I had to...
For the last six years, I have been trying to create a real, true Agile environment. I’ve gotten teams together and tried to follow the rules, doing everything “right” to achieve true Agile productivity. I’ve tried. My coworkers, colleagues, and fellow program managers have tried too. At this point, I’m ready to call it. Agile...
In building a stateless web services API (e.g. a RESTful one), developers often must consider the chance that an attacker might attempt to spoof a call on behalf of a legitimate client. For example, if the attacker—Evil Enterprises—were to spoof a request to an event-logging API used legitimately by Alpha Incorporated with garbage or inaccurate values,...
In “Trolling: An Age-Old Problem That Isn’t Getting Better” I gave an overview on trolling, including a brief history and overview on the common methods and motivations of Internet trolls. Now that we’re up to speed and you’ve read a few examples, let’s talk about the danger and legal issues that trolls present to users...
Impermium, the leading defender against account hacking and malicious user-generated content for web sites, and ImageVision, the pioneer in automated content safety for images and videos, today announce a strategic partnership to protect businesses from dangerous and explicit user-generated content. As we’ve warned before, incidents of malicious content and online abuse are rapidly increasing across...
