BH Consulting's Security Watch Blog
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 [...]
A friend rang me today to discuss how she and her husband had become the victim of an apparent keylogger attack resulting in large amounts of money taken from their bank account. Thankfully once they reported the suspicious activity to their bank their funds were recovered and the bank are now investigating the case themselves. My [...]
A friend emailed me a link to the video below. It is a very amusing advert for a gents shaving product highlighting how babies can monopolise their mother’s affections, to the cost of the father. Of course being in information security I could not help look at the video from the infosec viewpoint and it made me [...]
At this stage you no doubt have heard about the miraculous emergency landing of the US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson river. Thanks to the skill, experience and bravery of the pilot and the crew, all 155 people on board managed to get out of the plane safely with relatively few injuries. So what [...]