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 […]
Secunia PSI Vulnerability Tool- Spotting the Weakest Link
One of the key challenges facing us in protecting our systems is ensuring they are patched to the latest levels to prevent exploitation using new vulnerabilities. While the Microsoft Update Service will keep you abreast of the latest patches available for Microsoft products, there are still many other applications, services and packages we install on […]
Irish Parents need to "Get With IT"
As part of the national security awareness campaign, makeITsecure, the government has launched a number of booklets to help parents understand the risks their children face when on the Internet. The booklets were developed by the Internet Advisory Board and will be made available in hard copy by many of the phone operators. The Department […]
How Prepared is Your Business Continuity Plan?
The Irish Examiner recently ran a story that claims the Irish economy could suffer a €2 billion loss due to a bird flu outbreak in this country. Now while not wanting to join in the “chicken little” hysteria that sometimes surrounds bird flu, it is worthwhile thinking about how prepared is your business continuity plan for […]
MakeITsecure 2008
This week sees the launch of Ireland’s third national security awareness campaign, makeITsecure. The makeITsecure website has been revamped with updated content to help people understand the threats they face and provides hints and tips on how to keep themselves secure online. For the first time this year’s campaign is also an all-Ireland event with activities happening […]
Safer Internet Day 2008
Tuesday, February the 12th sees this year’s Safer Internet Day which is organised by Insafe, a network of 23 nodes in 21 countries funded through the EU Safer Internet Programme, and is aimed at children and younger Internet users. Each year a series of events are run to promote safer use of the internet and draw […]
Over 100 Computers Lost By Irish Government in 5 Years
The SiliconRepublic published a story highlighting how questioning from Ruairi Quinn, spokesperson on Education and Science for the Labour party, exposed how over 100 laptop and desktop computers, 14 Blackberry phones and 11 portable media devices were lost over the past 5 years. While there are no details available as to whether or not any sensitive […]
Second Annual Irish CyberCrime Survey Launched
The Irish Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association and UCD have launched the second “ISSA / UCD Irish Cybercrime Survey“. This is a joint project between the Irish Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association and the Centre for Cybercrime Investigation at UCD. Last year was the first time a survey of this nature was conducted to […]
Compromised Passwords at Root of SocGen's Rogue Trading?
The recent €5 billion rogue trading scandal at the French bank Societe Generale appears to have been successful due to compromised passwords. According to the Washington Post the rogue trader in question Jerome Kerviel (pictured left) was able to commit the fraudulent trades by having knowledge of control systems from previously working in that section previously […]