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Your hotel room is not a fortress

1. March 2010

Over my life I have done quite a bit of travel where I would inevitably stay at a hotel. Every time I left the room I was concerned that someone could come in and rummage through anything I may have left. From this video you can clearly see how simple it is to enter a hotel room virtually undetected.

Cyberwar, not China is the real threat

15. February 2010

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I have always held the believe that China has been successfully building their military and was somewhat close to our own strengths. But after reading a recent Atlantic article it is clear that China has a long way to go before they could ever be a military threat to the US. It was equally clear that the US has bigger fish to fry with regards to the risk of cyber war, with threats coming from all around the globe.

Would you have spotted the fraud?

23. January 2010

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While keeping up with KrebsOnSecurity I came across an interesting article about ATM fraud. Have a look at the included pictures and see if you would have spotted the bad bits attached to the ATM device.

A must read article on web security

21. January 2010

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Check out the most excellent article by Christian Heilmann on Smashing Magazine titled ‘Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?’. From the article:
Disclaimer: the things we’ll talk about in this article today won’t make you a security expert, just as buying a Swiss Army knife won’t make you a locksmith or buying a whip [...]

So long WinHttpCertCfg… we hardly knew ya

21. January 2010

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Remember back in the Windows 2003 days when you had to use the Microsoft Windows HTTP Services Certificate Configuration Tool to update the ACL on a specific certificate private key information. Well those days are long gone with Windows 2008.

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Your hotel room is not a fortress

Cyberwar, not China is the real threat

Would you have spotted the fraud?

A must read article on web security

So long WinHttpCertCfg… we hardly knew ya

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