Going to Vegas

I haven't posted in a little while because I've been head-down between my regular job and fixing up some code for readability and usability (for people other than me), since I was accepted to present said code at Black Hat 2006.

I even have the swanky image to prove it:



Basically, my talk is about how one can use Greasemonkey to automate some common investigative tasks. I've been using it myself for this, and figured that security people may not be aware of this fantastically cool extension which allows you to easily and quickly inject overlays and code and stuff into other people's web pages. It's pretty cool.

Student Loan Borrowers 0wned, er, Lost

Today the big ID theft story is about how a million names and SSN's got themselves lost. That's tragic and interesting and all, but the best part of the story is that I was interviewed on camera for the six o'clock news piece by Clara Tuma of KVUE (formerly with Court TV, which is where I knew her from).

The angle they used on me was weird, but there was a nice shot of my building, and the quotes they went with were pretty excellent. Full of doom and gloom, and some practical advice on how Texans can freeze their credit reports. It's a pretty cool feature of Texas law -- change the state of your credit identity from default-open to default-closed.