Articles about Christopher Budd

Why the Clinton email server story matters — and why it may be worse than you think

Commentary: Let me start by saying what this article isn’t. This isn’t an article about Hillary Clinton (in fact, for… Read More

House of Cars: Lessons in politics from Seattle’s ridesharing saga

In this corner: We have a young, innovative company that says it’s changing the playing field, and making life better for… Read More

The Target Tipping Point: How e-commerce trumped traditional retail in transaction security

The first weeks of 2014 seemed to bring reports of new data breaches affecting retailers in the United States on… Read More

Farewell, stack rank: Why this change is so big for Microsoft

[Editor’s Note: Christopher Budd worked at Microsoft for more than 10 years, specializing in security response and communications.] Yesterday every… Read More

Ten Years of Patch Tuesdays: Why It’s Time to Move On

Earlier this month, Microsoft marked the tenth anniversary of its regular “Patch Tuesday” release of security updates. There wasn’t a… Read More

Truth in absurdity: A former Microsoftie’s take on ‘Where’d You Go Bernadette’

Now the story of a Microsoft family who lost their wife and mother, and the daughter who had no choice… Read More

Why I won’t buy another subsidized Android phone (and why you shouldn’t, either)

Guest Commentary: In the past few weeks, T-Mobile has been trying to shake up the mobile phone industry by offering… Read More

Be Very Afraid: Notes from a ‘Data Privacy Day’ Town Hall

Happy Data Privacy Day. Or maybe another way to think of it is Happy Halloween in January. After attending this… Read More

Why the Windows 8 launch isn’t as big as you’ve been told

Three years ago, I was working at Microsoft to ensure that the security response process didn’t get in the way… Read More

Big shift for Microsoft’s Forefront security products: RIP ISA Server

Today Microsoft announced “Important Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps.” Product roadmap update announcements often aren’t terribly interesting, but oftentimes the bland… Read More

Plot thickens in mysterious leak of Apple user data

A small Florida online publishing company named Blue Toad has inserted itself into last week’s Anonymous/AntiSec-FBI story about an iOS… Read More

Seattle security startup seeks to eliminate vulnerable code from the public domain

Do you think of copy/paste as a security risk? You should. Code vulnerabilities that propagate through code reuse (i.e. copy/paste)… Read More

Diablo III accounts hacked, players’ inventories plundered

Diablo III is the latest chapter in one of the most popular PC gaming titles out there. Coming out twelve… Read More