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August 28, 2006

Are we really at risk from Snacks on a Plane?

The Sunday Herald in England has this marvelous article:- http://www.sundayherald.com/57459 I love that headline! – Falacious Airline Risks: Indeed! This is a long article…

August 17, 2006

Realistic Risk Assesment

I found the contents of this very interesting: http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv27n3/v27n3-5.pdf Example: Accordingly, it would seem to be reasonable for those in charge of our safety…

July 6, 2006

The truth About AV

Those of you who haven’t visited Rob Bergeners VMyths.com site should do so. http://www.forbes.com/home/free_forbes/2006/0605/100.html To sell antivirus software, first you must sell the fear….

June 25, 2006

Irony

Headline: FTC attorney’s laptops stolen http://www.presstelegram.com/business/ci_3969575 The government agency charged with fighting identity theft said Thursday it had lost two government laptops containing sensitive…

June 23, 2006

Microsoft’s strategic insecurity

Bruce Schneier pointed to this in his blog this week: http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System ZDNet has a discussion about the ethics of such ‘hacking’. If Microsoft sells…

June 22, 2006

Side by side news

I found this:- http://www.gcn.com/print/25_16/41041-1.html The Agriculture Department’s wireless policy, updated in April through a series of departmental notices, comprises everything from architectural requirements to…

June 12, 2006

Europe must be crazy

http://www.csoonline.com/caveat/060606.html?source=csoupdateMaybe they know something we don’t? Maybe they do have good security, but they are doing what we say security should be, and that…

June 12, 2006

Encrypted USB flash drives

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=14&tag=nl.e539 Yea, right. Fine for the monoculture, but what about us types for whom MS-Windows is not the ne-plus-ultra, not the first choice? Oh,…

April 10, 2006

New twist on laptop theft

We’ve all read about how the Big N-1 Accounting firms have had laptops stolen with financial & personal details of their client’s employees. Well…

March 20, 2006

It’s a crime to delete files

Occasionally I pluck up enough courage to read the Risks Digest. I found this: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24.20.html#subj6 If you don’t read Risks Digest regularly you probably…

March 14, 2006

Better than Free Chocolate Bars

Some while ago people were peruaded to give up their passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar. This goes one better With chocolate bars…

February 27, 2006

“Vendors that don’t understand security, except that it will make them money”

That assertion is the title of this article: http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180203279I think they used the wrong tagline! “Just about everyone is hawking security, secure networks, secure…

February 15, 2006

Gates says security boils down to four focus areas

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/021406-gates-keynote-rsa-security.html However its unclear what those four areas are from the article. The best quote I can find relating to it is: Gates then…

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