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I will be speaking at the 5th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Conference this year on the 27th of October. The theme for the event is “Data Protection: Global Compliance Management” and I will be speaking on “Building an Information Security Culture and Policy”. I will also be taking part in a panel discussion in [...]
We may be in the middle of the summer but already the calendar for the autumn is starting to fill up. I will be presenting at Source Barcelona and also at BruCON in September. For both of these seminars I will be talking about the lessons learnt from when I set up IRISS-CERT and how [...]
I had the pleasure of finally meeting Javvad Malik, otherwise known as the infoseccynic, at the recent Infosec show in London. Javvad takes a refreshing look at the issues we face in the information security profession and you should visit his site or follow him on twitter to get his view on things. Javvad kindly took the [...]
Recent investigations by German authorities discovered that the Google street car was recording information about Wireless Access Points it detected during its journeys. More seriously it was revealed that the system recording that data was also gathering any data being transmitted over any unsecured wireless networks it detected. Google claims that this was a mistake and [...]
The May 5th edition of the Irish Times ran an article, called “Cloud Computing Storm“, on the controversy generated by the recent memo from the Irish Department of Finance advising that government bodies exercise caution when looking to move data or systems to a cloud computing platform. I am quoted in the article in relation [...]
The Sunday Business Post ran an article in their Computers In Business magazine last Sunday. I am quoted in the article giving some recommendations on how businesses should approach securing their VPN access. The full article is available on the Sunday Business Post site.
The Second Annual Data Protection Conference which is run by the Irish Computer Societywill be held this year on Thursday the 25th of March in the Radison BLU Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. I will be speaking at the conference as will Billy Hawkes – Data Protection Commissioner Bruce Scheier – BT Linda Ni Chualladh [...]
On Thursday the 21st of January Boards.ie announced that they were the victims of an external attackwhich may have led to the compromise of their user database. As that database contained more than 280,000 users it was potentially a major issue. Details of what happened are available on Boards.ie’s website where they give a good [...]
The next meeting of the Irish Information Security Forum will be held on the 28th of January at 14:00 in the Oak Room in Buswells Hotel on Molesworth St. Dublin 2. The topic for the meeting will be “What’s hot in Information Security in 2010″. I will be addressing the meeting with what I think will be [...]
I was interviewed by RTE Radio 1′s Morning Ireland show about the latest vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The interview focused on the calls by the French and German governments for people not to use Internet Explorer until a patch is released and to move to a different browser instead. The full interview is available [...]