Protecting Your Online Reputation
An interesting series of posts on how to deal with negative publicity from the online community has just started today on Damien’s Blog. Today’s post offers an interesting insight into how to deal with negative postings about your company from bloggers. While focused on the customer service side of things regarding this issue, I think […]
Security Breach at Jobs.ie?
Lots of conversation on boards.ie claiming that a number of CVs have been illegally downloaded from the Jobs.ie website. No details of what happened have appeared yet but the below is supposed to be an email from Huw Taylor the General Manager of Jobs.ie to affected users. Dear ………. I am writing to bring your […]
A Matter of Pride
I was watching TV and saw an advert for Irish Pride bread. The concept of the advert is that some people take no pride in their work and often take shortcuts to achieve their goals or indeed just do the bare minimum to get by. It got me thinking about the information security field and whether or […]
Vulnerabity of the Old
During a recent email conversation with Damien Mulley on the risks posed to dial up users I also discussed with him how the rapid advancement of technology is making older technology more dangerous. The following is a summation of that conversation and hopefully it will provide you with some food for thought. Despite the media splashes regarding […]
Insuring Against Hack Attacks
The Canadian based insurance firm Executive Risk Insurance Services announced that they are launching a new corporate insurance product enabling clients insure against the associated costs of an information security breach. The new insurance plan will not only cover the costs of the actual damage caused against systems by an attack but also the additional […]
Virus Alert
I came across this amusing video by Weird Al Yankovic called Virus Alert. And for those of you keeping track of the recent court case whereby Eircom is being sued by four record lables, the song “Don’t Download this Song”, from the same artist is worth a listen to…. Enjoy
Lessons Learnt from the IBTS Information Security Incident
As discussed last month The Irish Blood Transfusion Board suffered a security incident whereby a CD containing encrypted information on blood donors was stolen in New York City. This was the first major publicly reported data loss incident that we have seen in Ireland. As promised in earlier posts, now that the dust has settled […]
Dial Up Security Issues
Damien Mulley interviewed me a while back regarding security issues that users still using dial-up access to the Internet typically face. Damien has now published the article on his blog. Dial up users do face the challenge of having to download myriads of software patches and signatures for anti-virus and anti-spyware software. In many cases the […]
Security Awareness – As Gaeilge
Enisa have made their publication “A Users’ Guide: How to Raise Security Awareness” available in Irish.
Researchers Break Disk Encryption
The Wired Blog highlights research conducted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Princeton University have discovered a way to circumvent full disk encryption on computers, even when they are turned off. It appears that the contents of in memory can linger on in RAM from where the encryption key can be copied from. The lenght […]