July 10, 2015 The 11 tiniest, most powerful computers your money can buy http://www.geek.com/chips/the-11-tiniest-most-powerful-computers-your-money-can-buy-1627324/ I have my doubts about many things and the arguments here and in the comments section loom large. Yes, I can see that…
August 4, 2014 14 antivirus apps found to have security problems http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/29/antivirus_blood_splattered_as_biz_warned_audit_or_die Let us pass over the “All A are B” illogic in this and consider what we’ve known all along. AV doesn’t really work;…
January 11, 2013 Another Java bug: Disable the java setting in your browser http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/625617 Java 7 Update 10 and earlier contain an unspecified vulnerability that can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a…
July 2, 2012 Tight budgets no excuse for SMBs’ poor security readiness http://www.zdnet.com/tight-budgets-no-excuse-for-smbs-poor-security-readiness-2062305005/ From the left hand doesn’t know what the right hands is doing department: Ngair Teow Hin, CEO of SecureAge, noted that smaller companies…
March 31, 2012 Help on ISO-27000 SoA This kind of question keeps coming up, many people are unclear about the Statement of Applicability on ISO-27000. The SoA should outline the measures…
March 22, 2012 Orwell: a quarter of a century late http://hdguru.com/is-your-new-hdtv-watching-you/7643/ well 28 years actually … So, the two-way tv sets of Orwell’s novel have arrived, over a quarter of a century late! It…
January 24, 2012 The Death of Antivirus Software http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/19386-The-Death-of-Antivirus-Software.html The real issue here isn’t Ubuntu, or any other form of Linux. Its that AV software doesn’t work. PERIOD. There are over 50,000…
August 6, 2011 The Decline of the Physical Desktop http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/As-Foretold-by-Desktop-Managment-Tools-588370/ What’s interesting here is that this isn’t preaching “The Cloud” and only mentions VDI in one paragraph (2 in the one-line expanded version)….
July 14, 2010 IAM – Basics – Policy If there’s one thing that upsets me when I see articles and posting to forums about policy, its mention of a “Password Policy”. I…
June 4, 2010 Google Phasing out Windows http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Report-Google-phasing-out-internal-use-of-Microsoft-Windows-1012679.html “According to a report in the Financial Times, Google are phasing out the use of Microsoft‘s Windows within the company because of security…
February 28, 2010 The FBI risk equation It seems that to make better cybersecurity-related decisions a senior FBI official recommends considering a simple algebraic equation: risk = threat x vulnerability x…
February 5, 2009 Benchmarked: Ubuntu vs Vista vs Windows 7 Image via Wikipedia http://www.tuxradar.com/content/benchmarked-ubuntu-vs-vista-vs-windows-7 Interestingly, even if not that relevant. And, of course, there’s the most important proviso of all: it is very, very…
