Incident Response at Home
A friend rang me today to discuss how she and her husband had become the victim of an apparent keylogger attack resulting in large amounts of money taken from their bank account. Thankfully once they reported the suspicious activity to their bank their funds were recovered and the bank are now investigating the case themselves. My […]
Eircom Attacks Were DNS Poisoning Attacks
The SiliconRepublic.com published a piecetoday where Eircom say that the attacks they suffered earlier this month were due to a “‘moderate attack’ known as cache poisoning” against their DNS Servers. Eircom also state that they have not seen any “further attempts at cache poisoning since last week”. DNS Cache Poisoning is where attackers attempt to change […]
Prime Time Investigates – Computer Crime
RTE‘s Prime Time Investigatesprogram ran a piece on 2nd of July on the extent of Cyber Crime in Ireland. The program is now available online and it has me contributing to it. The segment starts about 18 minutes into the program. Interesting take aways from the program for business owners; You have legal obligations under the Data […]
L0PhtCrack Is Back !!
One of my favourite security tools, L0phtCrack, is back and available for download. L0phtCrack is an excellent password auditing tool which allows you to determine whether or not there are weak passwords on your network. L0phtCrack first came out in 1997 and it is a sad reflection on the information security industry, that twelve years later we […]
Business Continuity Planning for Flu Pandemic
The Dept of Enterprise, Trade and Employment have released two good publications in relation to preparing your business in the event of a flu pandemic (or indeed any pandemic). The first is a document, “Business Continuity Planning – Responding to an Influenza Pandemic” (PDF file approx 1.2 MB), providing advice on how to prepare your […]
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 […]
Today is Safer Internet Day
Today is Safer Internet Day and once again we at BH Consulting are proud to support this worthy event. Safer Internet Day aims to make children, teenagers and young adults more aware of the dangers they could face when online. This year the focus is on the dangers posed by social networks. In Ireland the day is […]
AIB Phishing Alert
The Irish Reporting and Information Security Service (www.iriss.ie) have issued an alert regarding a Phishing attach against AIB customers. Please do not respond to this email or indeed click on the link. Even though you may not enter your details the site could be infected with computer viruses and other malware. If you have responded […]
The "Beta Culture" and Security
Today’s Irish Independent has an article on “Are buggy smart phones now the reality in our new ‘beta culture’?” Marie Boran interviewed me for the pieceasking for my thoughts on the security implications resulting from our acceptance in using Beta products. From a security point of view I have to admit that I do have concerns […]