Morning Ireland Interview On Arrests of Alleged Lulzsec Member
Earlier this morning I took part in RTE Radio 1’s Morning Ireland show. I was invited onto the show to talk about the arrest of an alleged member of Anonymous and Lulzsec. The person arrested is an 18 year old teenager called Jake Davis, also known by the online alias Topiary. He was arrested by […]
Call for Papers for IRISSCERT Conference Closing Soon
The annual IRISSCERT Cyber Crime conference is due to be held on November 23rd this year. As usual the conference is an opportunity to learn about the latest threats in cyber crime and strategies to deal with those threats. IRISSCERT has has its call for papers open for the past few weeks and it is […]
Team Cymru CSIRT Assistance Program
Team Cymru is a well respected computer security research organisation and provides a lot of high quality information to the community. One of the services they offer is the Team Cymru CSIRT Assistance Program (CAP) which is a service aimed at Computer Security Incident Response Teams at either regional or national level. The CAP provides […]
Attrition.org Posts a Rebuttal to my Lulzsec Post
Subsequent to publishing my “Lulzsec Ups the Ante” post attrition.org and I had a very interesting discussion on my criticisms of Lulzsec using criminal methods to highlight the weak security used by the companies that were breached. Attrition.org has posted a rebuttal to my post and highlights issues that Attrition.org has with my post. The topic of how […]
Lulzsec Ups The Ante
There have been a string of breaches against various companies claimed by a hacking group called Lulzsec. They have attacked organisations such as Sony, the US Senate, the security company Unveillance, the Atlanta chapter of an FBI affiliate group called Infragard, Bethedsa Software, the British National Health Service, PBS and numerous others including many pornography sites. They […]
Upcoming Information Security Events in Dublin
A few years ago it was difficult to find any major conferences on information security in Ireland. There would be a number of seminars run by various vendors and resellers with the ISSA and IISF running monthly meetings to keep their members informed of latest trends and issues. This year is proving to be very exciting […]
Cloud Security Alliance Summit 2011
The UK and Ireland Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance are hosting the CSA Summit 2011 as part of the Infosecurity Europe event next week. The summit will take place in the Thames Suite at the Earl’s Court facility on 21 April 2011 and starts at 10:00 a.m. There are a number of excellent speakers lined up […]
Oh I do Like To Be At The Bsides
Next week sees the Infosecurity Europeshow in London. It starts from the 19th until the 21st. I find it a useful opportunity to see what the various vendors are bringing to the market. Sometimes I have found some new companies with some exciting products to help secure client systems. Most of all I enjoy Infosec […]
ISSA Ireland Special Event on Stuxnet
The Irish chapter of the ISSA is holding a special event on the evening of Thursday the 3rd of March and will feature a presentation on Stuxnet by Patrick Fitzgerald Senior Response Manager with Symantec. Symantec carried out a thorough analysis of Stuxnet in the Stuxnet Dossier. The event is to be held in the Camdem […]
Ooh Shiny !!
Sometimes as security professionals we often get distracted by the technology and forget to focus on the people and process elements that are also the foundations for a strong information security management system. I discuss this topic in more detail on my “All That Glitters is Not Gold” post over on Information Security’s Knowledge Bank. […]