Prison Sentences for Data Breaches?
A recent study by CA Technologies indicates that almost 90% of businesses experience some form of data loss (as reported in SC Magazine) and 2009 research from the Ponemon Institute…
Email Security – the risk of typos
We all make typos - nearly everyone suffers from the effects of fingers and brains going out of sync - and it is why the most important tool in any…
How do you measure the value of security?
For lots of people and businesses of all sizes, security is viewed as something which is an unfortunate cost that simply has to be tolerated. In effect, this gives rise…
Risk Management and Measurement
Security is built upon the bedrock of risk management, but this is frequently overlooked and instead things are left to chance. Every activity carries risk and nothing can ever provide…
Security Policy – Essential first step
Security is important. Security underpins pretty much every activity you are engaged in - be it at work or at home. From a business perspective, security can be the difference…
Global Marketplace – Staying Secure Abroad
There is a strong business benefit in being able to project you business across the globe. By lifting geographical boundaries, you open up new markets and can take advantage of…
Testing for Insecure Passwords
Despite recent popular opinion and some well publicised hacks involving them, passwords are not intrinsically weak. When used properly, they are a perfectly good, single factor, method of authentication. The important part…
Public Key Encryption with GnuPG
One of the most overlooked risks of using the internet is the fact that most of the time your data is as private as the writing on the back of…
Malicious Spam on the Rise
Research carried out by two security companies has provided information that most people will have already recognised - in the last week there has been a significant increase in spam…
Passwords and IT Security
Passwords are frequently thought of as an "outdated" method of security and numerous product vendors will tell you how they offer a much better solution that kind of works like…
Bay House School - Hampshire
Schools breach data protection rules
Today the Information Commissioner's Office announced a data protection act breach at the Bay House School in Hampshire which placed data belonging to nearly 20,000 people at risk. Reading the…
Burglary leads to bomb threat
In a situation resembling a variation on tiger kidnapping, there is news today of a situation in Australia where a woman spent 10 hours with a suspected explosive device strapped…
Cloud Security – Uncrackable Encryption?
Cloud computing is frequently presented as the future of how will interact with our data. More and more systems are moving to the various service routes, from software (such as…
Stegobot steals passwords from Facebook photos
A report in New Scientist magazine this week identifies a new threat to your information security, although it is unclear if this is in the wild yet. In the article,…
Olso Terrorist Attack
News reports are coming into today of a terrorist attack in Norway. It appears that a gunman opened fire on a youth conference on the island of Utoya, killing four…