Official Study Guide for Certified Wireless Analysis Professional Available Online
Wireless networks are becoming more and more popular. At some stage your company will probably be looking to deploy a wireless network and will be looking to you to set up it in a secure manner. CWNP are providing free the Official Study Guide to become a Certified Wireless Analysyis Professional. While the CWAP exam is now […]
Targeted Attacks Using Unpatched Vulnerability in MS Excel
The Microsoft Security Response Centre has just released an advisory alerting us to targetted attacks using an unpatched vulnerability that affects Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2002, Microsoft Office Excel 2000 and Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 3, Microsoft […]
An Inconvenient Truth – Local Warming & the Dangers of Blogging
I came across this amusing video of a Ted presentation on “Help Fight Local Warming“. For those of you who have your own Blogs you may want to view this. Those of you who are thinking about Blogging, this I am sure, is something that you may not have considered in your decision making process. […]
Web Application Security Guidance
Over the holiday period I spent some time catching up on news items and emails that filled up my inbox over the preceding few months. One item I did not look at until recently was an announcement about the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC). WASC is an open forum to stimulate and create discussions regarding […]
Safari Incident Response
A friend of mine sent me this cool video on an attack on a hear of water buffalo in Africa. It is a fascinating piece of video footage and shows how unpredictable and savage Mother Nature can be at times. After watching the video for a few times I could not help but draw parallels […]
Welcome to the Internet Help Desk
I came across this video a while back and stumbled across it again recently. It is an amusing look at the frustrations many of us have faced in our time in supporting the end user. The video is entitled “Welcome to the Internet Help Desk“. Enjoy. If you have any amusing support stories please feel […]
Brian Honan Speaks About MAC Attacks
Further to the recent discovery of a new trojan written by cyber criminals which targets Apple MAC users, BH Consulting’s senior consultant Brian Honan was interviewed for the Digial Ireland supplement in today’s Irish Independent. The article also appears on SiliconRepublic.com’s website.
Latest SANS Top 20 Released
SANS today released their latest Top 20 Internet Security Risks. The launch was held today in London and the report highlights the continuing trend of increasing criminal involvement in cyber attacks and the focus of attacks moving away from networks and operating systems. Instead the main points of attack are application vulnerabilities, especially in custom […]
Many A True Word is Said in Jest
Scott Adams takes a funny swipe today at the way information security managers are often viewed within an organisation. I know a number of information security managers who would not see anything wrong with Mordac’s approach. These same people also wish there were no users to corrupt their “secure” systems. It goes without saying that […]
NIST Releases Three New Special Publications
The US National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) have just released three new special publications. They are; SP 800-111 Guide to Storage Encryption Technologies for End User Devices. SP 800-114 User’s Guide to Securing External Devices for Telework and Remote Access. SP 800-115 Technical Guide to Security Testing. I have found the material NIST […]