Author Archives: Kevin Lam

Kevin Lam, CISSP has over 10 years of experience in information security and has been publicly recognized in 2008, 2009 and 2010 by companies such as Microsoft for his online security contributions and vulnerability research. In 2010 he was awarded a Developer Security Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award from Microsoft Corporation.

Prior to 2007, Kevin was a senior security team member at Microsoft Corporation. At Microsoft he was responsible for protecting and assessing (penetration testing, vulnerability research and application security code review) the security of high-valued highly-targeted products, infrastructure and assets, as well as envisioning and delivering corporate security strategies. He was also a trusted security advisor and trainer to the executive and security teams of some of Microsoft’s largest customers on malicious hacker techniques, best practices and security strategies. Before Microsoft, Kevin was a lead penetration tester at a Big 4 audit firm where he led simulated malicious hacker attacks against Fortune 100 customer networks and trained other global security consultants.

Kevin is the lead author of the book Assessing Network Security (ISBN: 9780735620339), has contributed to several other books and has published several magazine and online articles. He was also responsible for releasing the initial two versions of the Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library, which is used by enterprises world-wide to provide protection from the #1 online attack today.

New Look, New Blog

We recently re-launched our Website at www.golockbox.com to better reflect the companies strategy and direction.  This also means that we’ll be discontinuing our blog at this site, moving everything over to http://www.golockbox.com/blog/.  Thanks and please update your RSS feeds! –Kevin LOCKBOX SFT, the easiest to use and most secure file transfer service

LOCKBOX SFT 1.5.12 is Released

Version 1.5.12 is finally here and pushed out to the production servers.  As always, our customers don’t need to do anything to get this update.  Happy holidays and let us know if you experience any problems with the latest service at support@golockbox.com. –Kevin LOCKBOX SFT, the easiest to use and most secure file transfer service  

You Can Still Protect Sensitive Data on Your Computer (Even if it’s Stolen), Know How?

A friend sent me this story about how nearly 17,000 patient records were stolen from a laptop that was taken from a consultant’s car. Here’s how you can protect the sensitive data on your computer or laptop (even if it’s lost or stolen) with just the system you’re using right now. If I took your [...]

The Best Tip You’ll Ever Get On Cleaning and Preventing Virus Infections

Earlier this month, the U.S. Drone Fleet was hit by a computer malware that appeared to be logging keystrokes sent to the drones.  What’s interesting about the report is that the malware has resisted several attempts by the military to cleanse the infection.  In other words, as soon as they clean off one instance of the malware, [...]

LOCKBOX SFT 1.5.9 is Released

After what seems like months and months of gathering customer feedback, code development, testing and then doing it all over again, I am happy to announce that LOCKBOX SFT version 1.5.9 is finally here! Version 1.5.9 is stuffed with a bunch of new features and improvements, but here are some of the key ones we [...]

LOCKBOX SFT 1.5.6 is Released

The production servers just got updated to version 1.5.6.  Normally we like to release more often, but we have strict software quality release criteria that we just won’t bend on (and that’s a great thing!). Many minor updates went into this release, including: Improvements to Web UI Improvements to file transport speed Additional security protection [...]

Epsilon Email Hack, and What You Can Do

Last week email marketing firm Epsilon had their systems breached according to several sources, such as CNN.  Customer email lists of major companies like TD Ameritrade, Citi, AT&T, 1800Flowers, and more were reportedly stolen as part of that breach. What this means for you is that instead of receiving random phishing emails from companies that [...]

Yet Another Celebrity Gets Hacked, Top Things You Can Do Right Now to Protect Your Online Accounts

This came across my desk this morning http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/natalie-portman-joins-list-of-compromised-celebs-20110322-1c4bt.html.  It’s an article about how celebrities are getting their online accounts hacked, and the latest victim being Natalie Portman from the movie Black Swan. Celebrity or not, we all have online accounts (Facebook, email, bank, etc.) and data we wish to keep private and secure.  Here are the top 3 [...]

LOCKBOX Passwords iPhone/iPod Touch App just went live!

And here I thought today couldn’t get any better … I just received an email from Apple notifying me that LOCKBOX Passwords just went live on Apple’s AppStore! If you’ve got lots of passwords to remember and don’t want the pain of having to write them all down on paper all the time, then this app [...]

LOCKBOX Passwords iPhone App is Releasing Soon

In our efforts to continue enabling businesses and professionals to protect their customer’s personal data, we will be releasing our iPhone app called LOCKBOX Passwords shortly on the Apple iTunes store.  Until then, here’s a brief description. — START — LOCKBOX Passwords is an iPhone and iPod Touch application that enables you to manage your [...]

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