My daughter was distressed yesterday after the Feds shutdown the megaupload file sharing site – “How am I going to see all those series and Korean movies I love? It’s not fair!” The FBI have been after Mr Dotcom for 8 years. His big problem was not the file sharing but his other criminal activities. …
Read more »Yesterday I spent most of the day re-installing one of the workstation in the office with Ubuntu 11.10. I like what I saw, but the Unity interface is not my cup of tea so I installed Gnome – what they call Classic Ubuntu. In principle I shut down as many operating services as I can …
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Did you ever have a feeling that your IT integrator was treating you like a couple of guys selling you a Persian rug? ”Take it now – it’s so beautfiful, just perfect for your living room, a steal for only $10,000 and it’s on sale” and when you ask if it will last, they tell …
Read more »A risk assessment of a business always starts with data collection. The end objective is identifying and then implementing a corrective action plan that will improve data security in a cost-effective way, that is the right fit for the business. The question in any risk assessment is how do you get from point A (current …
Read more »3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), is the latest standard in the mobile network technology tree that produced the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies. It is a project of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), operating under a name trademarked by one of the associations within the partnership, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. The question is, what will be …
Read more »We all think about sex – men (most of the time), women (some of time) and teenagers (all the time). Sex – despite the huge volume of content in the digital and print media, is one of those phenomena that demonstrate an inverse relationship between substance and talk. The more talk, chances are, the …
Read more »In a way, every software security assessment is an exercise in software development. The first step in the software security assessment project is requirements analysis. Requirements analysis is concerned with what the system (whether it be a “traditional” application or a rich Web 2.0 application for social networking) needs to do. This involves examining the …
Read more »Companies spend millions on compliance, but proprietary assets are still getting ripped off by insiders and hackers who compromise buggy, poor-designed applications. Here are 7 software development mistakes you don’t want to make in 2011. 7. Don’t KISS If my experience is any indication – the software industry as a whole is wasting hundreds of millions …
Read more »Here are 7 steps to protecting your small business’s data and and intellectual property in 2011 in the era of the Obama Presidency and rising government regulation. Some of these steps are about not drinking consultant coolade (like Step # 1- Do not be tempted into an expensive business process mapping project) and others are adopting best practices …
Read more »In a recent PCI seminar I attended, the speaker (who hails from the European PCI Security Council) claimed that most European businesses were in a very bad place in terms of their data security but that that the ultimate business objective is 100 percent compliance. I’ve heard similar pronouncements from industry analysts like Forrester. This is problematic for …
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