Westminster Council in London are sending a message via Bluetooth to anyone who walks within 30 meters of known clip bars in Soho reported the Daily Mail newspaper in the UK. Will we start seeing Bluetooth messages when we walk into shops telling us that the same goods can be bought cheaper next door? I [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Sex Bars, Bluetooth and Privacy
August 31, 2007The Psychology of Information Security - Part 0
August 31, 2007After my The Security Genome - Understanding How People Find Security Bugs post I picked up a book I have been wanting to read for ages. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert is a psychology analysis about what makes people happy. I predict (pun for anyone who has already read the book) that it will spawn a series of [...]
Analogy of Risk Management
August 30, 2007“Risk Management is like the navigator in a rally car; Business is the driver.”
Hoff’s comment made me chuckle. “..these navigators never stop and ask for directions”.
Software Security Assurance - State of the Art Report
August 30, 20073o0 + pages of comentary and opinions on everything software security.
http://iac.dtic.mil/iatac/download/security.pdf
Thanks to Rudy for sending this over.
The Security Genome - Understanding How People Find Security Bugs
August 29, 2007I think I may buy shares in Wired. I seem to plug it every month when I read articles of interest that spark my imagination. After reading the Web War One article I was engrossed by the Halo 3 story. Just yesterday I had a conversation with someone about the sophistication of games versus the [...]
WW1 (Web War One) - eStonia Attacked!
August 29, 2007Like many of my blog readers I suspect that the recent story about Estonia being shut of the grid passed with a fleeting interest. Over the years I think I have been jaded by sensationalist journalism about cyber jihads and the Internets impending doom from cybervillans.
I just picked up a copy of Wired at the airport [...]
Straights Words from Gartner about PCI
August 23, 2007……. there are some important areas where we part company with the council. One of the most important is that the council sanctions the use of an assessor that is also trying to sell you security services. This is completely at odds with established best practices in audit and compliance.
Well, the card companies may not learned [...]
SilverLight
August 22, 2007If you ever doubted SilverLight would be able to deliver superb web UI’s here is proof: Tafiti.
Note: It’s shame the relevance of the search results are so poor because this would have me move from Google in an instance.
Check out this SilverLight video from Mix07. Blows me away. When will security tools look this [...]
The Art of Scoping Application Security Reviews (Part 1) - The Business
August 22, 2007A development manager friend in Europe sent me the following email:
…I know you aren’t in the business anymore (?) but how the f&^% do you scope a web application security review? I have asked six firms to provide proposals and after countless wasted hours repeating the same things they are literally 1000’s of percentage points apart in [...]
How Software is Built
August 20, 2007How Software is Built is a really interesting site with some really interesting perspectives and ideas.
Recent Comments