Nigel Stanley is the IT Security Practice Leader for Bloor Research. In this blog Nigel will be commenting on the world of IT security and other areas of interest from time to time.
Security firm Sophos are reporting that spammers are capitalising on the
recent death of Michael Jackson to
harvest active email accounts. The body of the email appears inert, with no
hidden malware. Instead the spammer is
expecting, no...
Looking for another security problem to worry about? Don't
worry, the IT security industry will find another one to add to your list.
And so it is with the announcement that Windows XP enters
extended support until April 2014. With...
Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 11th September '08
I blogged about my interest in Bletchley Park, home of the Allied
code breaking effort of WWII a few weeks ago. I was moaning about the money
being spent on the London Olympics for a two week festival of running and
jumping whilst our national...
Bletchley Park, the home of the WW2 code breakers, has been
in the news over the past couple of days as a group of notables have written to
The Times complaining about the state of the historical site.
I for one, with a keen interest in...
Each day at work I get an update on the latest publicly
revealed data loss incidents, be it laptops, memory sticks or corporate hacks.
Unfortunately I become pretty immune to these daily reports and normally skim
read what has no doubt been a...
I had the
pleasure of watching the film Glengarry Glen Ross again last night.
Released in
1992 it chronicles the struggles of 4 real estate salesmen in a down market New
York based agency. It stars Al Pacino as top salesman Roma, Jack...
As we rapidly approach the Christmas season I thought I would share this amusing You Tube video sent to me by Symantec. Enjoy!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ReUs8YTVTKg
As I sit writing this rant I can feel the collective blogsphere
seething at news that HM Revenue and Customs have managed to lose millions of
child benefit records - up to 24 million according to BBC News at the time of
writing.
Apparently...
I'm still
recovering from my trip to RSA in London on Tuesday. Not particularly as the day
was long and busy—shows always are. I just can't
believe the Microsoft keynote I heard presented by Ben Fathi, Corporate Vice President
of...
Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 19th September '07
It's a fact. I am one of the most un-trendy people in the universe.
Why?
Well I have no interest what so ever in joining FaceBook, Quetchup, MySpace, Friends Reunited or anyone of the other gazillion social networking sites out there.
A brief...
Fidelity National Information Services, a provider of financial processing services to institutions in the US, recently announced that an employee who was employed as a database administrator (DBA) made off with 2.3 million records comprising...
For a number of years I was technical director of a software development company.We also did training, consultancy and development but the hardest part of the business to get right was software development. No matter what ‘ology we employed,...
So today was the last day of InfoSec, and the last round of briefings.
Deploying software patches, managing viruses, controlling data leaks and all the other associated security jobs that we need to do place a heavy burden on administrators and...
Maybe InfoSec should be rechristened the database security show?
There appear to be more and more vendors now focussed on securing the good old database by offering tools that layer onto an existing RDBMS, monitoring who is doing what and when and...
Day 1 of InfoSec, the Information Security Show held in London’s Olympia venue, was going to be an interesting experience from the start.
The immediate impression was that the show was bigger this year than last. Either more vendors have...
This is the time of year when European based security analysts are at their most frenzied as next week marks the 3 days of the InfoSecurity Show, or InfoSec for short.
Of course I will be attending, and have had my three days filled with vendor...
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