Professionalism on Your Fly Is Open https://yourflyis0pen.com/categories/professionalism/ Recent content in Professionalism on Your Fly Is Open Hugo -- gohugo.io en Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:00:00 -0500 Learning From The Outside: A Wake-Up Call For Security Teams https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/outside/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:00:00 -0500 https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/outside/ I spend significant time each week trolling through Google&hellip; The Ethics of Publicly Naming Compromised Systems https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/public_disclosure/ Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:15:00 +0000 https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/public_disclosure/ <p>I spend some time each week researching what Internet miscreants are doing. Because of this, I often encounter compromised systems before their owners know of the breach. As I write this, I currently have outstanding contact attempts for ten organizations with compromised websites - some with which you&rsquo;re likely familiar.</p> Uh... https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/uh-dot-dot-dot/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 08:26:22 -0500 https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/uh-dot-dot-dot/ <p>The organization wasn&rsquo;t big, but they did have an IT department that apparently consisted of about a half dozen people.</p> SaaSsy Scanning https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/saasy_scanning/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:43:33 -0500 https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/saasy_scanning/ <p>I recently posed a Twitter poll on the following question about Scanning as a Service (SaaS):</p> <p><strong>There are several companies who &ldquo;scan the Internet&rdquo; and provide the resulting data to paying customers. These scans can be a bit invasive. When do you think such scanning crosses a line?</strong></p> Priorities https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/priorities/ Sun, 21 Mar 2021 18:57:57 -0500 https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/priorities/ <p>Remember how often the word <em>unprecedented</em> got used in 2020?</p> Extraordinary Claims, Ordinary Evidence... https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/extraordinary-claims/ Sat, 30 Jul 2016 13:59:13 -0600 https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/extraordinary-claims/ <em>An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.</em> Pwned Me a N00b https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/pwned-me-a-n00b/ Tue, 28 Jun 2016 09:47:28 -0600 https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/pwned-me-a-n00b/ A Midieval Tale of Trechery Gone Awry&hellip; Ambulance Chasing https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/ambulance-chasing/ Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:45:58 -0600 https://yourflyis0pen.com/article/ambulance-chasing/ There are a lot of unwritten rules in the security industry and, unfortunately, there&rsquo;s a whole crop of new companies coming up that just don&rsquo;t seem to understand them.