Entries Tagged as 'security'
Using Google to Identify Security Trends
The other day I was thinking about what is the best way to identify current trends on a macro level, to have an overview and understanding of what is currently happening and more importantly where to focus to mitigate against the risks and threats.
Currently my RSS feeds bring in over 1000 items a day, which [...]
Categories: security
Ubuntu Drink in Vending Machine
Came across this Ubuntu drink in a vending machine. Does anyone know what it is or tried it?
Categories: security
Join the CISA group in LinkedIn - Update
Using LinkedIn quite extensively, I created a group for CISA qualified professionals to join.
Please visit the following link stating your ISACA membership number and month & year you qualified for the CISA.
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/40405/0142006D7B5F
Upon joining you’ll have the following logo of the CISA letters I made displayed in your profile.
July 2008 - A quick update on the [...]
Categories: security
Get Hacked, Get Sued, Go Out of Business
I just received the following email from ecademy.com. It is an unfortunate tale of the site being hacked, the customer database stolen, the company being sued and as a result of the verdict and legal expenses they have decided to shut down.
Dear members, clients and guests of our portal,Over the last few years our portal [...]
InfoSec 2007 Presentation - Issues Faced by Organisations Today
I did a presentation at Infosec 2007 with Symantec at their display. The talk was about current issues faced by organisations ranging from:- Changes in motivation - how monetary gain is evolving threats- Segregated Security functions within organisations that do not work/talk to each other- Burden of regulation and compliance organisations need to adhere to [...]
Categories: security
Internal Facebook Phishing or Worm?
Seems one of my facebook contacts’ account was compromised either by phishing or key logging… “he” had posted the following URL onto my wall
h11p://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn
He also had the following from another user on his wall
“lol i cant believe these pics got posted….its going to be BADDDD when her boyfriend sees these- h11p://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn”
Of course, the guilty [...]
Categories: hacking · virus, worms & malware
Denied by my own blog
Funny that, bad behaviour picked up something and started denying logins from all different ips… just kept getting the following denied message…
Had to get in there manually and remove bad behaviour… will have a look at it on the weekend…
At least I know it’s working
Categories: security
Join the CISA group in LinkedIn
Using LinkedIn quite extensively, I created a group for CISA qualified professionals to join.
Please visit the following link stating your ISACA membership number and month & year you qualified for the CISA.
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/40405/0142006D7B5F
Upon joining you’ll have the following logo of the CISA letters I made displayed in your profile.
Categories: security
Verify CISSP Certification
The CISSP certification is seen as a standard for security professionals. The exam is based on the following 10 domains:
- Domain 1 Security Management Practices
- Domain 2 Security Architecture and Models
- Domain 3 Preventive Maintenance
- Domain 4 Application Development Security
- Domain 5 Operations Security
- Domain 6 Physical Security
- [...]
Categories: security
Technorati Quick Claim - May I have your username and password please?
As I’m required to write this post to verify my blog using the traditional “Post Claim”, thought I might as well talk a little about it.
In setting up my blog in technorati, they have a new option to do a “Quick Claim” to prove that you own this blog. This entails to give them [...]
Categories: security · web security
