If you aren’t already you should be gripped by the Alexander Litvinenko story. Its a James Bond movie being played out in the press and has every element of the very best spy / thriller / conspiracy you can imagine. Litvinenko was a critic of President Vladimir Putin and murdered by Polonium 210 poisoning in London [...]
Archive for May, 2007
If Data Breaches were Polonium 210
May 31, 2007If I were Looking for a Job Where Would I Look?
May 31, 2007Here is a post for those that found this blog via the RSA Conference website.
Friends and ex-employees often ask me questions on a very similar theme; ”if you were looking for a job where would you look?”. I am of course fully engaged launching an early stage startup but I have been asked the question enough times to [...]
Global InfoSec Skill Hotspots
May 25, 2007In my ego analysis today I noticed a nice accolade from the RSA Conference who have included me in their top blogs for professional development. Some more posts on professional development are clearly in order! Here goes…..
Why is it that some global locations appear to be hot spots for info sec? Is it culture, history, the economy, education or something else? [...]
Designer Labels Verus Solid Brands - Is The Web Development Losing the Plot?
May 25, 2007Alex Hutton sent me an interesting mail with some links to some heated debate about Ruby on Rails and Twitter. I followed the trail back across various tirades about PHP, Rails and eventually to this article.
It all seemed to stem from a interview with one of the Twitter developers Alex Payne, in which he discusses challenges [...]
SecurityLinkUp is Now Open Source
May 25, 2007An update to the ongoing story of SecurityLinkUp (last update here).
This application was designed to be a simple free application to manage face-to-face meetings for security folks around the world; community groups, product user groups etc. Having spoken to a number of potential user groups who have all been very positive we have gathered some [...]
Women as Explained by Engineers
May 21, 2007Sent to me my my Aunty Barbara!
More Stupid Security
May 17, 2007Yes that’s the default username and password for my Netgear wireless router printed during manufacturing on the body of the router and for good measure its the old chestnust of admin and password. The marketing claims this device has a double firewall! When will vendors learn? This beats the old password on a post-it note [...]
Is Information Security Less Important to Business Than a Rumor?
May 17, 2007From TechCrunch
At 11:49 AM EST Engadget posted saying that the iPhone and Leopard operating system launches would be seriously delayed. They based the story on an internal Apple email that was forwarded to them. The original post:
This one doesn’t bode well for Mac fans and the iPhone-hopeful: we have it on authority that as [...]
IE Must Do Better
May 15, 2007I bet a bottle of fine wine says that the vast majority of users click yes! Why wouldn’t they? There is not enough information for them to make an educated decision and not enough user experience to frighten the average or even educated user. IE7 has done a great job improving error messages with the likes of [...]
Shields Down, Budgets Up
May 15, 2007More than half (55 per cent) of IT security directors plan to increase their budgets in the coming year, according to analyst Forrester Research.
The additional spending is attributed to security’s broader scope and move towards information risk management rather than just technology, says the analyst.
‘Security is moving away from a reactive discipline to various technological [...]
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