Dublin the Centre for Industrial Espionage?
An interesting article appeared in last weekend’s Sunday Life newspaper. In the article an ex-CIA agent, Bob Baer upon whom the movie “Syriana” was based, claims that “Belfast and Dublin are major centres of industrial espionage” and claims Dublin is the “centre for commercial spying”. The article continues on to claim that there is a service in […]
June Issue of Security Watch Newsletter Now Available
The June 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.
Home Help
If you are like me you probably often get asked by friends and family how best they should keep themselves secure when browsing the internet. Below are some of the key things I tell people to remember when using the Internet;
To Patch or not to Patch – That is the Question
Yet another month has come and brought with it Microsoft patch Tuesday and a number of critical patches that need to be applied. To be fair to Microsoft they have made great strides in securing their applications and love or hate patch Tuesday at lease we know that we can expect patches from Microsoft. It […]
Thoughts on Certification Schemes in Information Security
I have been asked on numerous occassions by different people what my feelings are regarding security certifications. I have collated the types of questions I get under the following headings and summarised my answers.
Botnets – Digital Weapons of Mass Destruction?
In a previous post “CERTs to the rescue” I highlighted how various CSIRTS around Europe assisted Estonia in dealing with a series of ongoing cyber attacks. A number of subsequent media articles highlighted that Estonia felt Russia had initiated Cyber Warfare against them. Subsequent analysis of the attacks still leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Yes some of […]
He Who Lives by the Sword, Dies by The Sword
I recently met a colleague for lunch who works for an anti-virus vendor. During our conversation my lunch colleague highlighted some embarrassing mistakes his own company recently made with regards to faulty updates to their products. I pointed out that Symantec recently crippled millions of PCs in China with a faulty signature update. While this […]
Security & Google Docs
A client of mine contacted me recently regarding using Google Docs as the corporate standard for his company. The premise being workers would be able to work together and collaborate on projects no matter where they are. On the surface this seems like a good idea so I went and had a look at Google […]
NIST Release 5 new Publications
NIST (the US National Institute of Standards and Technology) have released 5 new publications relating to information security. The publications that NIST produce are excellent and serve as a great resource for anyone working in the Infromation Security field. The latest publications are; Draft SP 800-44 version 2, Guidelines on Securing Public Web Servers Draft […]
May Issue of Security Watch Newsletter Now Available
The May 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.