More on the DNS Vulnerability
Since my post on this issue yesterday and also Andy Whelan’s post to the ISSA Ireland’s newslist, a number of people have come back to me offline with regards to the current status within the Irish Internet space. It seems that a number of ISPs, 16 apparently, have not yet patched their DNS servers. But the biggest challenge […]
Has Your ISP Patched Their DNS Servers?
A number of people have contacted me looking for insight into what risks the recent DNS vulnerability announced by Dan Kaminsky pose to Irish Internet users. In particular what ISPs have patched their systems and which ones have not. As pointed out to me by one person this would be where an Irish CERT would […]
Travelling Abroad? Remember Always Practise Safe Hex !!
This story from The Times raises an interesting aspect to protecting your information assets. According to the story an aide to the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, reported his blackberry missing while on a business trip to China. An interesting twist to the story is the Blackberry went missing the morning after the aide had […]
Crime Does Pay
Yesterday I posted about a good news infosec story abouthow the FBI and Romanian police arrested a gang of cybercriminals. It was good to see justice reaching out and catching those that prey on the innocent. Then today I read about a New Zealand teenager who pleaded guilty to writing a sophisticated Trojan horse which was used […]
A Sight for Sore Eyes
For those of us working in the field of information security the job can sometimes be very negative in its outlook. We are viewed as people who stop things. We stop the hackers, we stop the viruses, we stop people having fun by blocking their favourite Internet sites and we sometimes get to stop projects […]
Global Security Week Logo Competition
As announced earlier the 4th Global Security Week security awareness event was launched earlier this week. The theme for this year is “Cybercrime – Don’t become a victim” and we need your help, especially if you have an artistic flair. We are running a competition where you get to design the logo for this year’s […]
Is The Privacy Tide Turning?
Digital Rights Ireland have reproduced an excellent article discussing the impact the Data Protection Act has on our rights to privacy. The article was Published in the Irish Daily Mail written by Fergal Crehan, a barrister specialising in Internet law. It is also interesting to note that the UK Information Commissioner, their version of the Data […]
Global Security Week 2008 Launched
The details for Global Security Week 2008 have been finalised and yesterday saw us distribute a press release announcing the theme for this year’s event. Global Security Week 2008 will run from September the 8th until September the 14th with the theme for this year being “Cybercrime – Don’t Become a Victim”. As per previous […]
Critical DNS Vulnerability Addressed
Various vendors have banded together to fix a critical DNS cache poisoning vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered by Dan Kaminsky six months ago and can enable criminals to conduct phishing scams by altering DNS records for legitimate sites to point to their phishing sites. The Register has a good article on it and SiliconRepulbic.Com also […]
Sunday Business Post Article on Identity Theft
The latest edition of the Sunday Business Post has an article on Identity Theft titled Good Management is Essential for Security. What is interesting about this particular article, apart from quoting me in it (even though they spelt my name wrong), is the focus on the article to corporate ID Theft. Corporate ID theft is an […]