A friend stopped by to ask if security suite x was any good or not. This led onto a conversation about a place she was working that wasn’t running any AV on windows machines. The rational behind this came from a 3rd party IT support guy who said “you don’t need AV on the Windows [...]
After the defacement and clean up, I was going about my normal business when a couple of friends noted that select pieces of reputation software are highlighting the site as either a phishing site or malicious content. This means folks would be blocked or have WARNING EVIL signs as they attempted to connect to this [...]
I received two gifts from a family member returning from China. It was a lovely though and I was touched by the gesture. Both items are of the geek variety and bought from stalls, one a ball point pen with a built in 2GB USB stick that can act as a voice recorder and the [...]
One of the wonderful pieces of IT security defense is planning for when you get your arse handed to you. The more technical term is incident response, but it’s not as much fun to say to your mates at the pub. Being attacked and having to recover is sadly part of IT life these days, [...]
Twitter does have it uses other than discovering the security industry has it fair share of nutters and those that tweet (I’m ‘down’ with all the terms now) their most random thoughts. Despite the madness and mysterious number of girls in underwear with names of ran-dee-12123 following me, I find a number of gems. The [...]
