Archive for July, 2008

Sexy Hacking

July 31, 2008

Damsels causing distress. You couldn’t make this up!
http://www.sexyhacking.com

A Little Password Humour

July 30, 2008

Reporting Risk

July 28, 2008

The team I run at Microsoft is called the Connected Information Security Group and we build software that powers the corporate information security program. We had some funny videos made that liven up internal presentations and meetings. I thought I would share them with you. This one is called “Reporting Risk”. Enjoy !
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Documenting Risk

July 28, 2008

The team I run at Microsoft is called the Connected Information Security Group and we build software that powers the corporate information security program. We had some funny videos made that liven up internal presentations and meetings. I thought I would share them with you. This one is called “Documenting Risk”. Enjoy !
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Tracking Risk

July 28, 2008

The team I run at Microsoft is called the Connected Information Security Group (CISG) and we build software that powers the corporate information security program. We had some funny videos made that liven up internal presentations and meetings. I thought I would share them with you. This one is called “Tracking Risk”. Enjoy !
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Visible Web Site Flaws

July 26, 2008

An interesting read picked up from the brilliant Usable Security blog.
Analyzing Websites for User-Visible Security Design Flaws

Cloud Computing

July 25, 2008

Whitfield-Diffie Gives Prize to the 1,000th RHUL Student

July 21, 2008

The inventor of public key cryptography (a visiting Professor) gives a signed copy of his book to the 1,000th student to attend the Information Security Masters at RHUL.
Taken at the Alumni conference today.

Torvalds on the "Security Circus"

July 18, 2008

According to CNET, in an e-mail to the Linux kernel developer mailing list, Torvalds said a section of the security industry was dedicated to finding bugs in software only to publicize their findings and gain notoriety.
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The Latest Security Management System ?

July 14, 2008

We keep joking at work that many security management systems are really Rub Goldberg / Heath Robinson machines (delete depending on which side of the pond you live). This is such a classic I had to share.