Security

Sensationalist?
Maybe. But Network World are carrying the story about an upcoming practical demonstration taking place this week at the annual PacSec conference in Japan.
So what’s the advice? Move your wi-fi to WPA2 which is not (yet I guess) susceptible to the same attack vector as WPA inow is.

Do you live in London?
Then according to a former vice president of Mastercard you are more likely to suffer from identity fraud than anywhere else in the UK. The full article can be found over at SC Magazine. The ex vp was head of their security and risk departments so should know of what he [...]

Firstly apologies for my recent silence - but my household has not been well this past month or so. I have a teen doing his As with glandular fever and then I got the flu big time … but I’m back to my sporadic postings.
For the last three years Bruce Schneier has run a movie [...]

Wireless networking might not rank up there with flying cars, but it’s still plenty cool and very useful. (Plus, it actually exists.) But wireless data can be exposed to interception, and although we have encryption protocols intended to prevent security breaches, they are not always 100% effective.
Read he rest of this excellent article over at: 

Let me ask you some questions:

Are you a user of Wi-Fi at home (or even the office)?
Do you mind using IE, at least this once?
Happy to have a 3rd party ActiveX control installed?

Then pop on over to Pure Networks and make use of their free wireless network security scan - make sure you ignore any [...]

I’m sure we all know what fishing means.
But how many have heard of the word “phishing” which is pronounced exactly the same but means an entirely different thing?
Now, the latest in a line of ‘ishing’ words is “vishing” or VoIP Phishing. With VoIP being “Voice Over IP” for those unfamiliar even with this term. Note, [...]

In my last post I talked about not controlling what my children click on.
Well this is only partially true. I don’t monitor or log their keystrokes or any other form of intrusive monitoring but I do use a URL filter. In keeping with wanting to use the best and, if possible, for free (personally I [...]

Long term viewers of this blog will know that I am keen on personal security from the computer perspective and also that I am keen on windows users installing personal firewalls.
Firstly I guess, a definition of personal is required here.  By this I simply mean it is a software based firewall that sits on the [...]

An email has just turned up in my inbox with the above heading - having just gone through a process of having to reconfigure my son’s wireless setup (he likes to play) I decided to take a read.
Here’s the full article but be warned it is quite lengthy.
It is summarised at the end with the [...]

[tags]security, wifi, paint, emsec[/tags]
Whilst wandering the info highway I came across this tidbit about Em-Sec who have a new paint, ok they call it a “revolutionary [...]