Brian Honan Quoted in Irish Times
The May 5th edition of the Irish Times ran an article, called “Cloud Computing Storm“, on the controversy generated by the recent memo from the Irish Department of Finance advising that government bodies exercise caution when looking to move data or systems to a cloud computing platform. I am quoted in the article in relation […]
Irish Business Targeted by Online Criminals
The SiliconRepublic.Com and RTE both report today that the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation is investigating a number of incidents where businesses in the west and midlands of Ireland have been targeted by online criminals. Apparently the criminals have accessed the computer systems of the affected businesses and encrypted important business information belonging to those businesses thereby making […]
Lessons In Cloud Security
The bunker scene in the movie Downfall has been adopted by many to spoof many modern events. Recently a spoof video based on the same meme has been produced by Marcus Ranum and Gunnar Petersonon Cloud Security. It is a very good and humorous spoof highlighting a number of security issues and misconceptions with moving your data/systems to […]
The Next ISSA Ireland Chapter Special Event
The next ISSA Ireland chapter meeting will be a special event and will be held next Thursday, the 4th of March, at the offices of Ernst & Young in Harcourt Street. There will be two speakers for this event. The first will be Peter Lennon from the Department of Health and Children who will speak about […]
Passport Control?
There has been a lot of coverage regarding the use of fake Irish passports by the team that assassinated a senior Hamas official Mahmud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month. Details of how or what types of passports were used are still unavailable and it is not clear yet whether the passports were of the old type […]
Securing Your VPN
The Sunday Business Post ran an article in their Computers In Business magazine last Sunday. I am quoted in the article giving some recommendations on how businesses should approach securing their VPN access. The full article is available on the Sunday Business Post site.
Speaking at the 2nd Annual Data Protection Conference
The Second Annual Data Protection Conference which is run by the Irish Computer Societywill be held this year on Thursday the 25th of March in the Radison BLU Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. I will be speaking at the conference as will Billy Hawkes – Data Protection Commissioner Bruce Scheier – BT Linda Ni Chualladh […]
Boards.ie Hacked
On Thursday the 21st of January Boards.ie announced that they were the victims of an external attackwhich may have led to the compromise of their user database. As that database contained more than 280,000 users it was potentially a major issue. Details of what happened are available on Boards.ie’s website where they give a good […]
Next IISF Meeting
The next meeting of the Irish Information Security Forum will be held on the 28th of January at 14:00 in the Oak Room in Buswells Hotel on Molesworth St. Dublin 2. The topic for the meeting will be “What’s hot in Information Security in 2010”. I will be addressing the meeting with what I think will be […]
Morning Ireland Interview
I was interviewed by RTE Radio 1’s Morning Ireland show about the latest vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The interview focused on the calls by the French and German governments for people not to use Internet Explorer until a patch is released and to move to a different browser instead. The full interview is available […]