Posts Tagged ‘Security’
Last weekend my father in-law asked me if it was safe for him to throw away an old computer, as an ex-practicing solicitor his level of paranoia is heightened when it comes to information security. I found out that he had been storing his old computer(s) for over 12 years as he didn’t want to risk his own data […]
A recent vulnerabilty has been discovered that effects IIS 6.0 web server where WebDav is enabled, this is likely to be patched on the next patch Tuesday given that it is yet to be seen in the wild (if this changes I have no doubt it will be delivered as an out of band). For more […]
Just spotted a post over at Nick Whittome’s Blog that mentions Steve Riley has been hit by the second round of Microsoft layoffs. I met Steve back at last year’s Strategic Architecture Forum (SAF), he presented on “Privacy in the Digital Age” – deck here. I also managed to have an excellent debate with him and […]
Whilst at InfoSec we spoke to the folks at Cisco about their IronPort e-mail gateway (an acquisition in early 2007), our question was “how can we put in place a more intelligent way of quarantining e-mail embedded with images”? You see, I work within a large financial services organisation and instead of risking reputational damage […]
So today I thought I would venture down to InfoSecurity 2009 at Earl’s Court and see what the security vendors were touting this year, initially I noticed two things…. The show was bigger than ever before, usually it takes place in Olympia (a smaller venue located nearby). This is really encouraging given the state of the […]
