Summer Edition of Security Watch Newsletter Now Available
The Summer 2008 edition of our sister publication, the Security Watch Newsletter, is now available online. For those of you who do not subscribe to our newsletter, you may find it a useful read as we highlight issues and stories that may not be applicable to our Blog
Cyber Crime Seminar in Dublin as Part of Global Security Week
Global Security Week, in conjunction with BH Consulting and VigiTrust , is pleased to announce a seminar on the theme of “Cyber Crime – Don’t Become a Victim” to be held on the 10th of September 2008. The theme this year is intended to highlight how businesses and individuals can become victims of Cyber Crime and […]
Staff Issues Regarding Data Leakage
Today’s Irish Independent has an article “The Perils of Identity Theft” citing me on some of the issues that staff need to be aware of when dealing with sensitive personal information belonging to the customers of their employer. We all need to be careful with the data we access in order to do our job […]
Irish Times Adds Her Voice to Calls for Data Breach Disclosure Laws
Thanks to Digitial Rights Ireland for pointing me in the direction of today’s Irish Time’s editorial calling for the introduction of Data Breach Disclosure laws. It is good to see this issue get such a public platform and raise the awareness as to why I and Digital Rights Ireland have been calling for such laws to […]
Lost Laptop Exposes 380,000 Records
Following on from last week’s announcement that the office of the Comptroller Auditor General lost a laptop containing sensitive data at a bus stop, today the CAG announced that it lost a laptop in April 2007that contained information from the Department of Social and Family Affairs on over 380,000 welfare recipients. The laptop was stolen […]
When News is Not Good News
The old saying “no news is good news” takes a bit of a twist as criminals use fake emails from CNN to trick people into downloading malware onto their PCs. Once downloaded this software will then make the PC part of a botnet to be used as the criminals see fit. The emails look very convincing, […]
Dilbert Does Security Patches
Trust Dilbert to point out the problems many of us have with applying security patches;
CyberWar Part of Georgian and Russian Conflict
Last year Estonia suffered a series of severe Distributed Denial of Service attacks which crippled its Internet infrastructure and made many government and press websites unavailable. Estonia initially claimed that Russia was behind these attacks and they were subsequently dubbed as “the first Cyberwar”. Later these accusations were retracted as there was no real evidence to prove […]
Let the Games Begin
Today say the launch of the Olympic games and here’s hoping that the rest of the games are as good as the opening ceremony. But what has the Olympic games got to do with information security? Well here are some of the issues that you should consider over the duration of the event; Already a […]
Criminals Break Into Irish Online Retailer
The Irish Examiner broke the news this morning that an Irish online retailer’s computer security was breached by criminals who managed to compromise an undisclosed number of credit card details belonging to Irish customers. The breach was apparently discovered after the criminals tried to test if the cards were active by making small online purchases […]