Archive for Information Security
Where did all the blogs go?
Sorry it’s been a while since you’ve be ingratiated with a 2-sec blog entry. You might have noticed recent UK press legislation that was put in place following the phone hacking scandal, that appeared to be ubiquitous and spanning all kinds of publishing media. I did at some point work out if I could actually [...]
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Internet monitoring and civil liberties
The government has laid out plans to monitor internet usage in the UK, namely to tackle “serious” crime and make it easier to track criminals, through monitoring of webmail, social networking sites, internet phone calls and online gaming. The first reaction of any serious criminal will be to go underground, that’s if they’re not there [...]
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Online Banking and Personal Risk Exposure
I’ve been keeping a close eye on online banking as of late, as the banks slowly shift security breach liability to consumers. Being an online banking customer myself, I was surprised to see a recent change to my terms and conditions: “We are making some changes to clarify the wording of the guarantee. With [...]
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European Commission proposes significant reforms of ’95 EU Data Protection Directive
In January, the European Commission proposed significant reforms of the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive. When these rules were implemented, less than 1% of Europeans used the Internet. Today, the Internet is a widely-used, powerful tool of commerce. Massive transfers of data occur between countries, across continents and around the world at the speed of light. Like other EU [...]
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Top Five Security Predictions for 2012
To get 2012 off to a start, I have five security predictions for the year ahead: 1) Brownouts I predict a major brownout to occur during 2012. By brownout I mean a critical failure in a key system due to over-capacity, with far reaching consequences. Something somewhere is going to be overloaded and fail spectacularly [...]
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The Cookie Law
Finally those little snippets of electronic information that websites have left behind on your computer will be subject to EU legislation. Website owners (at least those based in the UK) will need to get consent from visitors in order to store cookies on user’s computers. The revised Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations come into ‘force’ [...]
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Ground Computing
With the ‘advent’ of ‘cloud’ computing, which in real language means outsourcing using a common, shared contract, many companies are putting their data and absolute faith in the hands of third parties, perhaps without performing the exact same level of due diligence as they might should they ‘insource’. Or Ground Computing as I’ve decided to [...]
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Infosecurity Europe 2011
It’s no surprise that Infosecurity Europe remains Europe’s No. 1 Information Security Event when there are so many great reasons to attend. Register free to visit and benefit from 3 days of free education, see over 300 vendors and meet with over 12,000 of your peers – all under one roof. The 3 day Keynote [...]
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ISSA 5173 – The Security Standard for SMEs
As you might of heard in the press, ISSA-UK have released a new security standard that is primarily aimed at small / medium sized businesses. The intent of the standard is to ensure free, open and practical advice is available to business owners globally. What sets this apart from other standards is that it is [...]
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Anti Social Media
At the Information Security Leaders conference yesterday, aside from the gang war outside, an interesting debate arose around consumerisation in the workplace. Both Bring-Your-Own and Social Media concepts were wrapped together and addressed by an expert panel. Taking a few steps back, company owners, directors or management have pretty much insisted that employees get free [...]
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