Category: Technical Issues

FATF Guidelines on Virtual Currencies

June 1, 2015

Travel and Illness

May 1, 2015

Big Data on Fraud

February 1, 2015

Green Cars Are Not That Green

January 1, 2015

Effective Mobile Security in the Post-Snowden Era

December 1, 2014

FinCEN wants Natural Persons

November 1, 2014

Wireless Security Systems Can Be Hacked

October 1, 2014

Uber

September 1, 2014

A Fiber Optic Cable Was Cut

August 1, 2014

Cell Phone Vulnerabilities

July 1, 2014

SpyWarn – App

June 1, 2014

El Niño

May 1, 2014

Widows XP – Soon To Be A Legacy

April 1, 2014

Losing Control of Your Car

March 1, 2014

Turn It Off

February 1, 2014

Stock and Bond Certificates

December 1, 2013

FLIR, Infrared Cameras

November 1, 2013

Vietnamese Root Kit

October 1, 2013

Money For Corruption and Homes Scott Free

September 1, 2013

The Perfect Hire

August 2, 2013

Virtual Currency

July 2, 2013

AML and The Securities Industry

May 31, 2013

National Background Checks for $25.00?

May 1, 2013

What Social Media Should I Use?

April 1, 2013

Time To Sell Your Business

March 1, 2013

Felons In The Workforce

February 1, 2013

CMOS terahertz waves

January 3, 2013

Background Checks, if you advertise them, you better do them.

December 16, 2012

Data Breach

November 1, 2012

CPA’s Are Accountants Not Security Experts

October 1, 2012

The Future of the Security Industry

September 1, 2012

The Bribe

August 1, 2012

Strengthen Your Mental Fitness

July 1, 2012

Dark side of Creativity

June 1, 2012

E-Commerce Killed The Strip Mall

May 1, 2012

Prepare for Success and Manage Failure

April 1, 2012

The Perceived Value of a Franchise

March 1, 2012

iPhone, Blackberry, Android – Security

February 1, 2012

Interviewing Witnesses in Another Country

January 1, 2012

Google Latitude and Tracing Friends

December 1, 2011

Complicated Versus Complex

November 1, 2011

How To Deal With Petty Enemies

October 1, 2011

Pushing PCs, Finding The Wall

September 1, 2011

The Right To Information Act 2005, Transparency and Transitions

August 1, 2011

Still More on TSA and Body Scanning

July 1, 2011

Night Vision

June 1, 2011

Random Comments on Smart Phones

May 1, 2011

TSA and Backscatter radiation, follow up.

April 1, 2011

Do Global Background Checks Really Exist?

March 1, 2011

Telecoms to Come Under AML Laws

February 1, 2011

Electronic Pick Pocketing

January 1, 2011

A Hand Shake

December 1, 2010

The Edges of Technology

November 1, 2010

Virtual Worlds

October 1, 2010

Technical Due Diligence / CPAs

September 1, 2010

MSBs and Banks

August 1, 2010

Smart Phones

July 1, 2010

Cambio de California

November 1, 2009

H1N1

June 1, 2009

Spyware for smartphones

May 1, 2009

Over-regulation of American companies

April 1, 2009

Certifications in the Security Profession

March 1, 2009

Air pistols as a training tool

February 1, 2009

Giving money to children

January 1, 2009

Illness and guns

August 1, 2008

The Lamperd EMD Safety Bracelet

July 1, 2008

The Explanator™

June 1, 2008

Security and the traffic light. And the smart bomb.

May 1, 2008

TSA and the implant

April 1, 2008

Decryption through memory theft

March 1, 2008

Who should guard the hen house?

February 1, 2008

Guns or butter Gasoline or Eggs

January 1, 2008

Interviewing, Interrogation, and Torture

December 1, 2007

Rediscover Your Native Fitness (PACE), by Al Sears, M.D.

November 1, 2007

Global warming and the little ice age

October 1, 2007

Laptop protection

September 1, 2007

On-shoring

August 1, 2007

Satcom on the train

July 1, 2007

Translation

June 1, 2007

Shooting under stress

May 1, 2007

Who should investigate your fraud?

April 1, 2007

Targeted viruses

March 1, 2007

EFT reversals and ACH fraud

February 1, 2007

Heart attack performance review

January 1, 2007

Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier

December 1, 2006

Self-defense issues

November 1, 2006

Déjà vu all over again: T-Mobile’s Sharp Sidekick 3

October 1, 2006

Alternatives to liquids on commercial aircraft

August 10, 2006

The Bat! Voyager

July 1, 2006

Pen registers

June 1, 2006

Nokia 6270

May 1, 2006

Déjà vu all over again….

April 1, 2006

Specialized spyware developers

March 1, 2006

Toner expiration games

February 1, 2006

Maritime Shipping in the 21st Century: The Next Generation

January 1, 2006

VoIP security issues

December 1, 2005

Dumping, theft, and currency manipulation

November 1, 2005

Pretty Good Privacy

October 1, 2005

Hurricane activity for the next decade

September 1, 2005

BlackBerry 7100t GSM worldphone

August 1, 2005

Click fraud

July 1, 2005

Planning for plan failure

June 1, 2005

DR-CAFTA

May 1, 2005

More anti-spyware

April 1, 2005

Diskeeper

March 1, 2005

Standards and non-standard standards

February 1, 2005

The Bat! //AVG(free)

January 1, 2005

Caesar’s wife and Caesar’s voting machine

December 1, 2004

Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro

November 1, 2004

Text message delivery

October 1, 2004

GSM bands, and why you care

September 1, 2004

Reading competitors’ e-mail. Legally!

August 1, 2004

Explosives as a tool of cyber-disruption

July 1, 2004

Bluejacking and bluesnarfing

June 1, 2004

Communications in a suspicious society

May 1, 2004

Children and self-defense

April 1, 2004

How AT&T Wireless and Cingular caught the handset manufacturing world with their pants down

March 1, 2004

A new credit card scam

February 1, 2004

Why you soon may be able to get an encrypted cell phone for under $2,500

January 1, 2004

Choosing the appropriate PR firm

December 1, 2003

When everything goes wrong, asset recovery

November 1, 2003

Mobile phones for a blackout, or a working weekend abroad

October 1, 2003

Stealing your secrets: Cheap and easy…

September 1, 2003

Gun locks and “smart” guns

August 1, 2003

Protecting home broadband connections

July 1, 2003

Speech recording and transcription – Towards increased and smarter deployment

June 1, 2003

MailWasher Pro Version3.0

May 1, 2003

Bomb threat checklist

April 1, 2003

Backing up encryption keys and remembering pass phrases

March 1, 2003

DUI / DWI: Unintended consequences

February 1, 2003

Why you or your staff need to take action even though you believe your IT staff already deals with these problems

January 1, 2003

Personal computer invisibility

December 1, 2002

Know your sender, know your caller, and know that they know you

November 1, 2002

GSM handsets for international use by US business travelers

October 1, 2002

Free software

September 1, 2002

Keeping the Deus out of the Machina

August 1, 2002

On arming pilots

July 1, 2002

Why you should bring your own driver overseas

June 1, 2002

Killing magnetic media

May 1, 2002

A straightforward approach to getting around European privacy laws in prospective-employee background checks

April 1, 2002

A fresh approach to network protection

March 1, 2002

Stealing from debit cards

February 1, 2002

The 13th annual survey of salaries and bonuses in the security/loss prevention field

January 1, 2002

The twenty most critical internet security vulnerabilities: The experts’ consensus

December 1, 2001

The New Euro

November 1, 2001

Fake financial documents

October 1, 2001

Fundamentalist religions, and solutions that are worse than the problems

September 1, 2001

Technology Down on the farm

August 1, 2001

Wireless Security

July 1, 2001

The cost of power theft

June 1, 2001

Worms and other computer problems

May 1, 2001

Bypassing encryption

April 1, 2001

Steal this company – pa pa please

March 1, 2001

How to save $80,000 a year at a cost of millions

February 1, 2001

Don’t forget the applications

January 1, 2001

Power supply

December 1, 2000

Notes on saving money

November 1, 2000

FAXes and PDAs

October 1, 2000

Key Loggers

September 1, 2000

How to eliminate the ten most critical Internet security threats

August 1, 2000

Encryption, secrets, and spies

July 1, 2000

Protecting your home and small-business computer from crackers

June 1, 2000

Cybercrime on the increase

May 1, 2000

E-mail and privacy

April 1, 2000

Phone mail raid compromises 27 police detectives

March 1, 2000

Securing today’s health care applications

February 1, 2000

A miscellany

January 1, 2000

Y2K – Next to the last

December 1, 1999

The politics of encryption / The Skimmer

October 1, 1999

FTC vs Affordable Media (A must-read)

September 1, 1999

Who can read your data?

August 1, 1999

Am I being bugged?

July 1, 1999

The technology of money

June 1, 1999

Melissa, the stripper and the virus. (and a little Y2K)

May 1, 1999

Internet scams: Something new. Not!

April 1, 1999

Data encryption: New stuff and links

March 1, 1999

Business tax ID number prefixes

February 1, 1999

Radios and finger prints

January 1, 1999

Finding and Getting Rid of Non-Critical Data

December 1, 1998

Y2K: New and Fun Stuff

November 1, 1998