With yesterday’s unsalted password dump at LinkedIn (seriously LinkedIn, wtf are you doing not salting your passwords?), the password dump of eHarmony and today’s suspected compromise at last.fm, this would be an ideal time to provide a service that tells… Read More ›
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Chasers War on Sydney APEC Security: The Video
It was aired last night on the ABC. Media reports say that over 2.3 million people watched it last night, just in the Capital Cities alone. Which, I find amazing given that this is over 10% of the Australian population,… Read More ›
Chasers’ War on Sydney APEC Security
Well, it had to happen didn’t it. The Federal and NSW Governments spent over $250m on securing the Sydney CBD for the ongoing 2007 APEC Summit. Two of the Chaser’s War on Everything guys, not only did they get waved… Read More ›
Return of the Bootsector Virus?
A very interesting article caught my eye which is being presented to BlackHat Europe and HITB Dubai conferences. Two Indian graduates have developed a Vbootkit, which is just like a standard rootkit in Windows … but importantly is invoked before… Read More ›
Authorisation Management
A question posed by Gerry Gebel at the Burton Group around the difficulties of implementing authorisation management solutions. I’m not sure if the use of external authorisation solutions (the “Access Manager” products”) is the most appropriate in all cases. Sure,… Read More ›
Initial Experience of Accessing Patient Confidential Data over the Internet using a PKI
Chadwick, D., Harvey, S., New, J. & Young, A.J. (2000). Initial Experience of Accessing Patient Confidential Data over the Internet using a PKI. Proceedings of the Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE 2000) Conference, Barcelona. 27-29 September 2000. Abstract A project… Read More ›