Fight for Kisses – Lessons for Infosec
A friend emailed me a link to the video below. It is a very amusing advert for a gents shaving product highlighting how babies can monopolise their mother’s affections, to the cost of the father. Of course being in information security I could not help look at the video from the infosec viewpoint and it made me […]
Dealing with The Threat of Swine Flu
The news channels have been abuzz all weekend with the news of the Swine Flu outbreak in Mexico. There are concerns that this could become more widespread globally and indeed even reach epidemic scales. Without wanting to sound alarmist I recommend that you review your own business continuity plan to ensure your organisation can continue […]
Upcoming ISSA Ireland Event
The next ISSA Ireland event is scheduled to take place on Tuesday the 5th of May. The event will cover two very interestig topics, Voice Over IP Security and Cybersecurity – Protecting Critical Network Infrastructure. These two talks will be followed by a panel discussion on the area of CNI. The meeting will also host […]
Speaking at The Calyx Security Seminar
Calyx are hosting their Security Seminar on April the 23rd in the Burlington Hotel. I have been invited to be the first speaker of the day and will be discussing “Emerging Threats in Security: challenges and statistics for 2009”. Given the rapidly changing economic and information security landscapes my challenge will be to highlight the […]
Vigilance or Vigilantism?
SiliconRepublic.com ran a recent story on how spam levels are nearly back to height they were before the infamous shutdowns of the McColo and Interchange ISPs. For those of you not aware of the story, the Washington Post published an article highlighting that both of the above ISPs were allegedly hosting systems managed by criminals […]
Combating Conficker C
There is a lot of media attention being paid to the Conficker C worm due to update itself tomorrow. Researchers have not been able to identify what exactly that update will do. It may simply upgrade the worm to make it harder to detect or instruct it to carry out certain actions. This lack of […]
Speaking at the 2nd Digital Security Forum
I have been invited to speak at the 2nd Digital Security Forum to be held in Lisbon in June. I will be giving a presentation based on the ID Theft project in which I gathered enough information to steal the identity of journalist Marie Boran.
First Review of My Book
I recently became aware of the first review of my book, “Implementing ISO 27001 in a Windows Environment“. The review, by J Oquendo, is available on the IT Governance website. I must admit that I have been nervously waiting the reviews. After spending many long days, and indeed long nights, writing the book and going through […]
OWASP Ireland AppSec Conference 2009
I am thrilled to see that OWASP will be hosting their first Irish Application Security conference here in Dublin on the 10th of September. Application security is becoming more and more important as criminals target weaknesses in our applications. This conference will provide you with some excellent speakers and take aways to help you improve […]
Protecting Your Windows Systems from the Conficker Worm
Subsequent to the critical out of cycle patch, MS08-067, issued by Microsoft in October 2008, the Conficker Worm was discovered which infected systems that had not applied the MS08-067 patch. Since then the Conficker Worm has infected over an estimated 9 million PCs. Recent reports also highlight that the Conficker Worm has been upgraded by […]