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January 31, 2012
In the security presentation game, we spend a lot of time talking about “bad actors”, today it has a somewhat different meaning. The concerns with...
January 20, 2012
One of the largest file sharing services on the Internet was shut down yesterday in US legal action. The site is charged with violation of...
January 05, 2012
While paying a visit to the fantastically disturbing Regretsy site today I couldn’t help but be amazed by the sorry tale that was submitted by...
January 04, 2012
A report in the Daily Yomiuri suggests that the Japanese government have commissioned Fujitsu Ltd to create a “defensive virus” and that after 3 years...
December 06, 2011
In 2001 Visa introduced a security protocol they called 3DS, short for 3 Domain Secure in an attempt to reduce the incidence of credit card...
November 25, 2011
Preface: This blog is not about open source vs closed, it’s also not about Android vs iOS or any other mobile operating system. It’s about...
October 13, 2011
News reports are characterising an attack against the Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Entertainment Online (SOE) as “another hack” or “Sony hacked again“. However,...
September 26, 2011
Ever since the forthcoming Facebook profile changes announced earlier this week at the f8 Facebook Developer Conference, there has been a lot of talk online...
September 06, 2011
The story that has been slowly breaking over the past few days regarding the compromise at Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar and the subsequent “theft” of...
August 18, 2011
In a new video (which has now been removed), Anonymous or at least an element of the “loose online collective” (how much am I growing...
August 17, 2011
Software as a Service is seeing sustained growth and sustained adoption in both enterprise and in the home. According to a Gartner release in July...
July 29, 2011
Rewards have been offered for information leading to the arrest of high-profile malware creators/operators for some time. How successful have those various initiatives been, and...
July 12, 2011
In a move clearly inspired by LulzSec, an Italian hacker recently uploaded a torrent containing personal information of thousands of Italian university students. This information...
June 17, 2011
With all the recent news stories of successful hacking attacks of some very prominent organisations, this seems like an entirely reasonable question.
The litany of victims...
May 31, 2011
You may have read in the press recently about the Mac Defender scareware that is affecting many OSX users, to the extent that Apple have...
