David Laceys IT Security Blog
August 2009
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Online banking security (or lack of it)
28 Aug 2009 -
Painless patching
26 Aug 2009 -
Wales leads the way
24 Aug 2009
Which? Computing magazine has just published a comparison of the leading UK banks' on-line security measures. The results are quite damning. Many top banks have failed to keep up with simple best ...
I also keep an eye out for winners and finalists in the Global Security Challenge, as it often brings to light some original, imaginative technologies. One that caught my attention this year is ...
Wales is one of the least likely places you'd expect to find leadership in information security. Yet they have managed to assemble a specialist e-Crime prevention web site, complete with ...
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Combating counterfeiting
18 Aug 2009 -
Learning from mistakes
13 Aug 2009 -
Public policy on cyber security
12 Aug 2009 -
Context is King
09 Aug 2009 -
Who can you believe?
08 Aug 2009 -
The convergence of information and physical security
05 Aug 2009 -
In search of a cyber security czar
04 Aug 2009
Today's UK Daily Telegraph has an interesting article on the history of counterfeiting. Amongst other things, it reminds us that little has changed in security thinking over the last 300 years. No ...
Making a mistake once is good for your education. Making it twice means you're not learning fast enough. On Tuesday, Twitter suffered its second denial-of-service attack in a week. Admittedly the ...
Whatever your views about the current status and future prospects for public policy on cyber security, one thing is clear: we're heavily dependent on the mood at the top of US Government. Us ...
I had a few comments from friends after my last posting on Adam Laurie's attack on the UK Identity card. Many missed the point. The issue is not whether it's possible to forge or modify an Identity ...
I was disturbed to read about Adam Laurie's claim that he successfully cloned and changed the data on a UK Identity Card. I was also concerned to read the Home Office response that "This story is ...
I'm often asked for advice on organising security functions. One increasingly common question is should information and physical security be merged. I have lots of observations on that, having ...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Melissa Hathaway has resigned from her role as acting US National Cyber Adviser. This is a role that calls for broad subject matter experience, first class ...
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More of the same won't do
02 Aug 2009
Symantec's share price dipped last week following profit and sales forecasts that fell short of analysts' estimates. The explanation from Enrique Salem, their CEO, was that companies were switching ...