'Tis the Season
The seminar season has kicked off with a vengeance which has left me with little time to update the Blog. This week I was in Porto for the 3rd ENISA workshop “CERTs in Europe” coorganised with CERT Coordination Centre (CERT/CC). Due to my involvement in trying to set up a CERT here in Ireland I […]
Another PDF Vulnerability?
News is circulating that another 0 Day vulnerability has been found in the Adobe Acrobat PDF file format. It appears to affect all versions of PDF files. Given the widespread use of PDF files and their recent use in spamming emails from the storm botnet, this could pose a serious threat to many computer systems. […]
Presentations from GSW Seminar now Available
The seminar held in Dublin during Global Security Week based on the theme “Privacy in the 21st Century” was a resounding success. We had excellent key note speakers; Tony Delaney, Assistant Commissioner, Office of the Data Protection Commissioner Caspar Bowden, Chief Privacy Advisor EMEA, Microsoft. The following are copies of the presentations in PDF format; […]
Enterprise Ireland Podcast on Security Now Available
Enterprise Ireland run a series of podcasts aimed at SMEs to help them better understand some of the issues they face with regards to deploying and managing technology. Brian Honan was invited to take part in the latest podcast to discuss IT security and how it can be addressed by SMEs. SMEs face the same […]
CIS Releases Benchmarks for Virtual Machines
The Center for Internet Security have released version 1.0 of their benchmarks for securing Virtual Machines. CIS produce many excellent resources on how to secure various operating systems and devices on your network and this is another valuable guide in that series. Anyone considering deploying Virtual Machines in their environment would do well to review […]
Global Security Week Blog
As part of Global Security Week, running from the 3rd to the 9th of September, we have created a Blog to allow you to post comments and create discussions about issues relating to “Privacy in the 21st Century“. So if you cannot attend one of the many events organised for Global Security Week this is […]
Free Privacy Awareness Material Available
The “Privacy in the 21st Century” Blog, created as part of Global Security Week 2007 has announced that free privacy awareness material is available on the Global Security Week website. the free materials include posters, briefings and links to other sites relating to privacy issues. Well worth a visit if privacy is of concern to […]
Call for Breach Disclosure Laws in Ireland
The Friday edition of the Irish Times dated the 31st of August 2007 contains an article where Brian Honan, Senior Consultant for BH Consulting, states that at the forthcoming “Privacy in the 21st Century” seminar, which is part of Global Security Week, he will be calling on the Irish Government to look at implementing breach […]
August Edition of Security Watch Newsletter Now Available
The August 2007 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.
Hackers @ Microsoft
“Welcome to a new blog from Microsoft.” is the first sentence in a new Blog launched by Microsoft called “Hackers @ Microsoft”. This interesting new Blog is aimed at “white hat” hackers and promises to provide posts from the various hackers and security researchers employed by Microsoft. It will be interesting to see how active this new […]