Incident Response And The Apple Developer Site 'Hack'
How do you rate Apple’s incident response in this situation? Apple disclosed yesterday that its developers website had been temporarily taken down after being ‘hacked’ last Thursday. After three days of suggesting that the developer.apple.com site was down for maintenance Apple later sent an email to developers on Sunday saying that, “Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to […]
Ponemon Study Shows Security Metrics May Not Be Understood By Management
A new joint study between the Ponemon Institute and Tripwire suggests that risk-based security metrics may be too complicated for many senior members of the management team to understand. A survey of 1,321 security professionals from the UK and US discovered that 75% thought that metrics were important to a risk-based security program. Far more […]
Does Your Small Business Need Someone To Help When It Comes To Securing Your Computer System?
There have been so many advances that we have seen over the past few years when it comes to technology but there is nothing new in that – you will always hear about new technology. The newest technology is always the most popular and you can always see it on the TV and read about […]
Cyber Crime and Ireland
As many of you know I am passionate about how we as a country secure the systems, networks and the critical elements of our national infrastructure that we all depend on. I was recently interviewed by the Irish Examiner for an article Cyber Crime: The New Battleground, they ran on the threat posed to Ireland by criminals […]
Analyst Update at Infosecurity Europe 2013
I recently attended the Infosecurity Europe 2013 show in London. As part of that trip I took part in an analyst panel hosted by Infosecurity Magazine on what we thought about the current and future landscape regarding information security. The panel discussion was recorded and is available below; Please accept preferences, statistics, marketing cookies to […]
Hacking Senior Management – Video Interview with Tripwire
Earlier this year I attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco. While there I met up with my friends from Tripwire, including David Sparks. David and I started talking about the challenges security professionals have in securing the business environments they work in. He was intrigued when I said the problems I see are not […]
Information Security Bloggers Meetup 2013
As you may know Infosec Europe is on from the 23rd to the 25th of April. There will be plenty of events and parties taking place around the show. But if you are a blogger in the information security arena then you should drop by to the Information Security Blogger Meetup. This will be the […]
Facebook Breached
Facebook announced this evening that they have been the subject of a security breach impacting laptops used by some of their employees. According to the Facebook statement the laptops of some of their employees were last month infected with malware when they visited a compromised mobile developer website. The compromised site hosted a previosuly unknown […]
Bit9 Security Breach – Lessons Learnt
News broke on Friday evening that the security vendor BIT9 suffered a security breach. BIT9 offers a solution to clients whereby they will whitelist applications to run the PCs of their clients. This is done by digitally signing each approved application to allow it run on the protected computer. The theory behind this method is that […]
Today Is Safer Internet Day
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Safer Internet Day. BH Consulting has long been a big supporter of this initiative. Here are some resources that you can use to help make children and younger adults safely enjoy their online world. Webwise has a raft of resources for parents, teachers and guardians Microsoft has a blog […]