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Data security is not enough - we need provenance too

Another high-profile data loss story in a long line, this time a law firm that collected data on alleged file-sharing media and porn pirates which was then stolen for all to see. There are at least two...

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Mysteriously, Internet Explorer 6 hangs on

As recent market share figures tell us, many corporates are still using IE6 years after it stopped being current. Meanwhile, the oft-touted Microsoft browser killer, Firefox has about the same market...

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Patches, patches, everywhere...

So Tuesday was a mega-patch day, we had both Microsoft and Oracle with their biggest ever patch offerings. The good news is they are at least they are sending out patches.The less positive news is how...

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'Firesheep' tells us that web security is broken

Eric Butler's Firesheep plugin has been causing a stir, as it makes it extremely simple to hijack other people's web account. Once you have installed the plug-in into Firefox, you can see the...

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Standards, standards, everywhere...

Don’t you just love standards? Evidently everyone does, because they are all proposing their own… thereby defeating the whole object of a standard.In the past few weeks we have seen the Open Data...

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'Zero network trust' should mean exactly what it says

At the recent Forrester Security Conference in Boston I was pleased to see Forrester Analyst John Kindervag presenting on Optimizing Security Architectures And Technologies; No More Chewy Centers: The...

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Beware the 'rogue insider' at the top

The malicious insider is an employee who ‘goes rogue’.They have access to sensitive information and critical business applications as part of their day-to-day job and they can perpetrate their ‘crime’...

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The InfoSec Man Cometh

(After Flanders and Swann - music and score here)  'Twas on a Monday morning the firewall wasn't right -A distributed denial of service had given it a fright.It's OK for those Jericho guys, they threw...

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Mossad put a backdoor in my firewall (and other tales)

I was discussing security matters over a drink with a US Government official at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas a few years back and the discussion went something like this:[Official] “We won’t...

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The perils of cloud printing

There is a lot of hype about the latest application to make it into the cloud, namely printing. While it is true that printers have been tied to corporate networks, and in the past have been...

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The world goes phone-phreaking mad

Will the News of the World phone hacking scandal go away soon? And now there are other newspapers being accused of phone hacking as well. The short answer is probably not, at least not while it sells...

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Keep tabs on insiders with rule-based access

In his recent blog, Guy Bunker raises the question of the malicious insider, who misuses authorised access to data and applications. How do we detect and prevent such activity? A promising approach to...

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Facebook's flawed approach to privacy

Facebook is doing its privacy ‘tap dance’ again, but it seems that they still don't grasp the fundamental principle of ‘secure by default.’ The company has announced that it will temporarily disable...

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When files get lost in my 'digital pocket'

Each of us know that sinking feeling we get as we ever more frantically search our pockets for a mislaid passport. The opportunity to experience this feeling is about to get worse with the advent of...

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Is data falling into a 'digital pocket' or a black hole?

Adrian Seccombe posted recently about losing his files in a ‘digital pocket’ which struck a chord with me because I was just glad that someone else has the same problem as me; you know the information...

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Is Intel's IPT chip security as good as it sounds?

Intel recently announced Identity Protection Technology (IPT), a capability to generate one-time passwords within a protected area in its latest Core family microprocessors.  IPT is separate from the...

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Datacentre defence starts at the front door

It doesn’t matter if you have invested in the cloud or not, computing applications require hardware to run on and a place to live. Nowadays, the general feeling is that datacentres are the best place...

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The Internet that never forgets

The EU has proposed legislation on websites being able to be asked to ‘forget’ user information and while this initially seems like a great idea for privacy there are a few issues which also need to be...

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After the breach - how secure is RSA's SecurID?

The recent breach announced by RSA affecting their SecurID tokens raises stark questions on this authentication system. We have not been told many details so far, but let's look at what could be...

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Data breach hacking comes back from the dead

The latest Verizon data breach investigations report showed that the number of incidents investigated quintupled, but the number of compromised records dramatically decreased. The good news is that...

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