There's a story that when the notorious bank robber "Slick Willie" Sutton was asked why he robbed banks he replied "Because that's where the money is" (see Sutton's Law). As a strategy for maximizing the potential "take home" Sutton was, if you'll forgive the pun, right on the money even if the risk was higher than, say, knocking over a supermarket.
Mark Gibbs | 30 Jun | Read more
There's a story that when the notorious bank robber "Slick Willie" Sutton was asked why he robbed banks he replied "Because that's where the money is"(see Sutton's Law). As a strategy for maximizing the potential "take home" Sutton was, if you'll forgive the pun, right on the money even if the risk was higher than, say, knocking over a supermarket.
Mark Gibbs | 28 Jun | Read more
Last week I wrote about Comcast's plan to build the nation's biggest Wi-Fi service by co-opting their customers' Xfinity gateways and, following a detailed conversation with a representative from Comcast's Corporate Communications group, I have some corrections to make and quite a few additional concerns to add.
Mark Gibbs | 26 Jun | Read more
Kali Linux 1.0.6
Mark Gibbs | 12 Feb | Read more
Facebook has changed its privacy and security settings often enough that most users now have no idea what settings they actually need
Mark Gibbs | 03 Oct | Read more
A new study from consulting firm Infosys shows consumers globally are far more relaxed about sharing their private data than we knew and far more relaxed than they should be
Mark Gibbs | 26 Jun | Read more
First up this week, a white paper or report or ... I have no idea what these things should be called any more ... maybe a "glorified press release"? Whatever. Let's call it "a study" from Checkmarx, a company that specializes in automated security code review, titled "The Security State of WordPress' top 50 Plugins."
Mark Gibbs | 24 Jun | Read more
Is the NSA defending their intellectual property with more success than they protect our country?
Mark Gibbs | 14 Jun | Read more
A top secret NSA program to collect ALL Verizon customers' call data isn't at all surprising
Mark Gibbs | 08 Jun | Read more
First up, serious networking stuff concerning Apple and how iOS supports VPNs and how it won't in future.
Mark Gibbs | 10 Apr | Read more
Everywhere you go these days -- every store, every urban street, every car park, every ATM -- there are video cameras watching where you go and what you do. Just what are "they" (whoever "they" are) doing with all of that video surveillance?
Mark Gibbs | 15 Mar | Read more
For my recent column of predictions for 2013 I polled a huge number of IT people to see what they are expecting, and ended up getting more than 400 responses.
Mark Gibbs | 15 Feb | Read more
Gibbs reviews his predictions from last year and surveys the more than 400 predictions that he's been sent by IT professionals
Mark Gibbs | 02 Jan | Read more
Last week Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned in response to what has turned out to be a much bigger scandal than it first appeared.
Mark Gibbs | 20 Nov | Read more
This November marks the ninth year for which we will be announcing the Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards ...
Mark Gibbs | 09 Nov | Read more