LinkedIn LeaksOut
Earlier today it emerged that a large database of 6.5 million passwords belonging to users of the popular professional network, LinkedIn, was leaked onto the Internet. I was first made aware of the issue early this morning by Per Thorsheim (@thorsheim), a Norwegian security professional who specialises in password security. Once the news broke on […]
BH Consulting Wins Award at SC Magazine Awards 2012
I attended the SC Magazine Awards 2012 dinner on Tuesday night and was delighted when it was announced that BH Consulting was presented with the “Highly Commended Information Security Consultancy of the Year” SC Magazine award 2012. The award was given in recognition of the work and approach BH Consulting takes with our clients to enable them integrate information security as […]
Information Security Blogger Meet Up at Infosec Europe
As you may know Infosec Europe is on next week. There will be plenty of events and parties taking place around the show. But if you are a blogger in the information security arena then you should drop by to the Information Security Blogger Meetup. The event has been kindly organised by Alan Shimel and […]
10 Steps to Early Incident Response
Yet again I had the pleasure to work with Cindy Valladares and her team from Tripwire on developing a whitepaper to help people improve their security. This time the paper is on incident response and focuses on how we can better detect incidents. In particular, the paper focuses on ways to detect incidents as early […]
Upcoming Information Security Events in Ireland
As the spring season starts to kick in so too does the events calendar for information security meetings. Many of the larger conferences will start to happen over the coming months. But there are many local events that are equally as informative and worth looking into more. There are a number of worthwhile events coming […]
A Dose of Reality
Working in the area of information security and computer crime you get used to hearing bad news and stories. We often can get caught up in the hype and technical challenges our jobs bring. However, from time to time I hear stories or talk to people who make me pause and realise there are many evil acts […]
Eircom Study Hub Breached
Today Eircom released an announcementwhere they say that the details of up to 8,404 users of its Studyhub service are at risk following a breach of the Studyhub server. Users of the service have been notified and advised to change their password. The breach has also impacted another 2,500 users of the service, who were […]
Nominated for SC Magazine Awards
It was with great delight that I found out today that I was nominated for SC Magazine’s award for “Information Security Person of the year“. To add to my delight BH Consulting has also been nominated for the “Information Security Consultancy of the year” award. It is a great honour to have been nominated and shorlisted […]
Anonymous Attacks Irish Aid Website
Last night the Anonymous collective breached the security of one of the websites run by the Department of Foreign Affairs. In a statement to the Journal.ie a spokesperson the department confirmed the breach. Anonymous announced the breach at about 21:30 last night (1st February 2012) via Twitter using an account that has been associated with […]
Anonymous Attacks Irish Government Websites
This evening I was putting together my slide deck for an upcoming presentation at the next IISF meeting on my information security predictions for 2012. One of the topics I am going to discuss is the rise of hacktivism and the impact that can have on an organisation. Ironically, as I was writing my slides Anonymous announced operation […]