Security Awareness – As Gaeilge
Enisa have made their publication “A Users’ Guide: How to Raise Security Awareness” available in Irish.
Researchers Break Disk Encryption
The Wired Blog highlights research conducted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Princeton University have discovered a way to circumvent full disk encryption on computers, even when they are turned off. It appears that the contents of in memory can linger on in RAM from where the encryption key can be copied from. The lenght […]
Secunia PSI Vulnerability Tool- Spotting the Weakest Link
One of the key challenges facing us in protecting our systems is ensuring they are patched to the latest levels to prevent exploitation using new vulnerabilities. While the Microsoft Update Service will keep you abreast of the latest patches available for Microsoft products, there are still many other applications, services and packages we install on […]
Data on over 170,000 Irish Blood Donors and Patients Lost
Reports are breaking this morning about the theft of a laptop in New York that contained the data on over 170,000 people who have used the services of the Irish Blood Transfusion Board between July and October of 2007. The IBTS state that the data were sent to a US software development company based in […]
Upcoming ISSA Ireland Meeting
The next ISSA Ireland meeting is scheduled for this coming Friday, the 22nd February, at 12:00 p.m. in the Ballsbridge Court Hotel (formerly the Berkeley Court Hotel). The topic for this meeting is “Security Breach Reporting and Impact”. Those of you who are regularly readers of our Blog and newsletter will know that this is […]
Latest Information Security News
Below is a round up of news stories relating to information security that we have collated from the past few days. For ease of use we have categorised the stories under the most appropriate headings. If there are other stories that may be of interest please let us know via the comments feature.
Data Breach Notification Laws by US State
Following on from the theme of “Security Breach Reporting and Impact” for the upcoming ISSA Ireland meeting this Friday at 12:00 p.m., this interactive map from CSO Online is an interesting read. The map allows you to click on each US State to determine what each state’s laws regarding breach disclosure are.
Irish Parents need to "Get With IT"
As part of the national security awareness campaign, makeITsecure, the government has launched a number of booklets to help parents understand the risks their children face when on the Internet. The booklets were developed by the Internet Advisory Board and will be made available in hard copy by many of the phone operators. The Department […]
Security Watch Makes Shortlist for Best Business Blog 2008
We got some great news today. Our Blog has been shortlisted for the Best Business Blog Award 2008. We are delighted to have reached this stage of the competition, especially given the quality of the other blogs that have, and indeed have not, made it this far. This is the second year in a row […]
How Prepared is Your Business Continuity Plan?
The Irish Examiner recently ran a story that claims the Irish economy could suffer a €2 billion loss due to a bird flu outbreak in this country. Now while not wanting to join in the “chicken little” hysteria that sometimes surrounds bird flu, it is worthwhile thinking about how prepared is your business continuity plan for […]