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Bob McCardle has made me aware of these upcoming community SANS events to be held in Dublin this coming September. Bob and Owen are both very well regarded for their expertise and I highly recommend attending any, or both, of these courses. Bob also kindly offered a discount code for those of you wishing to attend. [...]
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 [...]
I am delighted to see that the revised version of my book has now been released. The book is “ISO 27001 In a Windows Environment” and has been revised to include the security features in Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. It is available to buy from the IT Governance’s website. As the overview on the [...]
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 [...]
I am thrilled to see that OWASP will be hosting their first Irish Application Security conference here in Dublin on the 10th of September. Application security is becoming more and more important as criminals target weaknesses in our applications. This conference will provide you with some excellent speakers and take aways to help you improve [...]
More details available as to how the breach occurred at Heartland resulting in potentialy the biggest breach ever of nearly 100m credit card transactions. Investigators discovered that a piece of malware was hillden in an unallocated portion of disk on one of the Heartland servers. What puzzles me though is; How did a user have [...]
The next ISACA Ireland chapter meeting will be held on the 3rd of February in Deloitte & Touche’s offices on Earlsfort Terrace. I will be presenting to the meeting on why I founded the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service. During the presentation I will provide a background into why I felt it necessary for [...]
Just as I finished posting about the serious security issues identified in the Department of Family and Social Affairs I read about the government’s auditing body, the Comptroller and Audit General, losing a laptop containing sensitive information about staff in a government department and details on companies recieving grant aid from the government. Details are [...]
The Data Protection Commissioner released the audit report it conducted in the Department of Social and Family Affairs. The report highlights a number of “serious concerns” relating to the security of personal details of over 300,000 people whose avail of the services of the Department. Some of the key findings include; Claim forms stored in [...]