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Sun, Dec 27 2009 22:02

When security doesn't work

A few days back, a hater named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to explode an airplane and kill 289 people aboard and maybe more on the ground. He was stopped by another passenger, Jasper Schuringa, a Dutch movie maker. The US Department of Homeland Security...
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Sun, Feb 15 2009 20:50

Compliance is not security

Tim Holman comments on the latest card processing system breach : Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) on Tuesday disclosed that intruders hacked into the computers it uses to process 100 million payment card transactions per month for 175,000 merchants: http...
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Mon, Jul 30 2007 3:54

Virtually hopeless

I don't know if that's CIOs, or the press, or both. Recently Byte & Switch, CMP Technology's zine on storage networking, published a chef d'oeuvre on troubles with virtualisation . Some amazing thoughts by the captains of the industry...
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Fri, May 4 2007 17:50

How to prevent 1% of cybercrime?

An interesting picture appears on the PBS Shop Web site: Because of what it says I felt an urge to click on it. The first attempt (a right-click) resulted in the following message box: I think the law that prohibits copying the picture doesn't exist...
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Mon, Apr 30 2007 20:38

News: Web is dangerous

VoIP is scary , if you rememeber. Now, there's something else that is scary: WWW, the World-Wide Web. And thanks to Tim O'Reilly and his invention of Web 2.0, it's scarier than ever. As in: there's much more to FUD about. Here's a...
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Thu, Apr 19 2007 4:31

False sense of security

Anyone noticing security seals on the Web sites? If not, here's how they look like: This is how they work: you click on the seal, and a pop-up window opens telling you that the bearer of this is indeed who they claim they are. Plus some marketing material...
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Mon, Mar 26 2007 4:13

VoIP threats are seriously overrated

For over a hundred years, the public switched telephone network (PSTN) has gained reputation of stable and secure service. Even though it's neither: it is indeed very hard to bring down a whole telco network, but local outages are not unseen; and wiretapping...
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Sun, Mar 18 2007 12:24

Forbes on public Wi-Fi: You Get What You Pay For

Forbes , a respectable business magazine, writes about wireless security in the issue of 26 March 2007: Computer security firm Authentium in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. warns about an emerging Wi-Fi fraud aimed at air passengers. What road warriors sitting...
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Fri, Feb 23 2007 1:17

The most secure modern OS, Part I

It's in wide use, it's mature yet modern (a new version was released just recently), and it's the most secure consumer OS out there. It's a Microsoft product. The OS in question is Windows Mobile. Formerly known as Windows CE, it became nameless power...
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Wed, Feb 21 2007 21:19

Life without firewall and antivirus

I don't run firewall or antivirus software on my personal computer. And the operating system there isn't Mac OS. And I work logged on as the Administrator. The reason is simple. I want to know if the intruders out there will outsmart me - by coming up...
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