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By Simon Heron October 10, 2011
The data revolution gains pace and data is massively more accessible and transferable than ever before. Not all data is equal, some data is more...
By Simon Heron August 04, 2011
I was just ‘playing’ with a colleagues mobile phone and struggling with what seemed to me a slightly arcane and not entirely intuitive user interface....
By Simon Heron July 05, 2011
Here is an interesting article in the NYTimes passed to me by my US CTO. It makes you think about putting data in the cloud...
By Simon Heron March 23, 2011
The Windows Support Scam just seems to run and run. I cannot believe that I am writing an update on this scam that has been...
By Simon Heron March 11, 2011
Recently, I wrote an article for (In)Secure Magazine focusing on two financial trojans: namely Zeus and URLZone. In the article I go into some depth...
By Simon Heron February 11, 2011
As Unified Communications (UC) and Voice over IP (VoIP) usage increases, we are seeing an increasing number of companies being hacked or defrauded. In some...
By Simon Heron December 21, 2010
IT managers are right to be wary of new threats like viruses coming in on infected devices such as USB sticks (like Stuxnet) or mobile...
By Simon Heron December 15, 2010
We’re used to hearing about the threats posed by lone hackers and international cyber gangs, but 2010 has seen an increase in other sources of...
By Simon Heron December 01, 2010
VOIP has tremendous benefits for business users – which include cost savings and greater productivity – but like anything else it comes with associated security...
By Simon Heron October 27, 2010
A recent survey to discover what IT managers priorities are for 2011 looks like unified communications and MPLS will be seeing a greater take up....
By Simon Heron October 21, 2010
The ease with which emails can be exchanged – and the propensity for employees to have inboxes overflowing with urgent calls for their attention –...
By Simon Heron October 19, 2010
The UK Government is about to launch a new National Security Strategy which outlines attacks on computer networks as one of the largest threats to...
By Simon Heron September 17, 2010
The need for secure use of social networking applications while at work is something that I have discussed regularly. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has just released a...
By Simon Heron August 27, 2010
So was the 2008 hack on the Pentagon really the work of a foreign government, or was it just a common or garden worm introduced...
By Simon Heron August 13, 2010
At my company, we scan and monitor urls as part of our managed service for the companies we work with, putting us in a great...
