Archive for the ‘information security’ category

New Blog – http://www.curphey.com is now live!

March 27, 2010

My new blog is now live at http://www.curphey.com. Please update your feed readers!

Farewell Security Buddha – Hello Curphey 2.0

March 5, 2010

I openly admit I had a mis-spent youth. I was expelled from school and then went on a rampage of sex, drugs, booze and rock and roll for the best part of a decade. I lived hand to mouth and did everything from stacking yogurts in a yogurt factory (working nights), selling houses, working behind [...]

Coming Back – Soon

January 5, 2010

It’s been nearly a six month break from blogging while some things settled down in life (moved continent, dealt with some major health scares etc.). Tweeting (@curphey) of course has not been silent but today I checked my stats and I realized I didn’t really post a “Gone Fishing” blog so here it is in [...]

Free PDF Download of “Beautiful Security” Chapter (Tomorrows Security Cogs and Levers) Here

June 22, 2009

Mark Curphey here…(@curphey on Twitter) A few months ago I got an opportunity to work on a collaborative security book for O’Reilly called Beautiful Security. The concept was to gather together some folks who to share their thoughts on information security topics that they have some passion about. There is a great range of authors [...]

Gem of a Security Post

June 15, 2009

I think I am going to rename this blog “Stuff that doesn’t fit into 140 chars” (stolen from Chris Anderson). I am mainly posting on Twitter these days, you can follow me here www.twitter.com/curphey . I am not sure how I missed this absolute gem of a blog post but I did. It’s a great [...]

Ray Kurzweil – Singularity University From Ted 2009

June 4, 2009

Ray Kurzweil‘s latest graphs show that technology’s breakneck advances will only accelerate — recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity University, to study oncoming tech and guide it to benefit humanity. (Recorded at TED University 2009, February 2009, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 8:42) Brilliant stuff! http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/558

Want a Free Copy of Beautiful Security?

June 4, 2009

Follow me on Twitter using @curphey I will send a one free copy of a book that I recently contributed to called Beautiful Security (published by O’Reilly) to the lucky winner of a simple competition. Here is how to play. Post a message on Twitter to @curphey with the hashtag #beautifulsecurity and the message “I [...]

Bing and Decide…

June 3, 2009

Beautiful Security

May 11, 2009

I have just got a few copies of Beautiful Security though the mail. Always nice to see your name on the cover of a book and your work in print. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527488/

Caved to the pressure and got a Twitter account……

May 4, 2009

http://www.twitter.com/curphey Experiment only!