InfoSec 2010 – A “must visit” show
InfoSec is rapidly approaching. This is a hugely important show for anyone that is involved in information security.
Nigel Stanley was the IT Security Practice Leader for Bloor Research. In this blog Nigel commented on the world of IT security and other areas of interest.
Battery Charger Beats Security
News has emerged from US-CERT that a USB battery charger (specifically the Energizer DUO) carries with it a trojan, buried in the Windows application...
The Business Case for Database Activity Monitoring?
Database activity monitoring is starting to attract even more attention, as privileged insiders such as database administrators can pose a...
Conficker grounds police checks
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have been struck down by an instance of the Conficker virus. The effect has been immediate.
Common passwords 123456 and qwerty finally exposed
A report by database security firm Imperva has highlighted the most common consumer passwords. The study was based on an analysis of 32 million...
Cracking a 768-bit RSA key
As computing power has increased, the available horsepower to brute force crack RSA algorithms has grown as well. The most recent announcement, in...
ICO Grows some Teeth
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is finally going to get some teeth to deal with data abuses
Mobile Phone Secret codes being hacked
The end of 2009 and the first couple of weeks of 2010 has seen the world of cryptography, and more specifically data encryption, thrust into the...
DDOS without the D. Are we doomed then?
Apparently a hacker has found a way of initiating a DDOS attack without using distributed systems
Removable media – the next encryption frontier?
People are slowly getting their heads around full disk data encryption, but now the focus needs to move onto removable devices. As data proliferates,...