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- Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosks
- We've talked a lot about airport security here see other links at the bottom of this article, but one thing we haven't covered yet is airport kiosks. Not that they haven't caught my attention, there's just so much wrong at the airport, it takes time to cover it all. Richard...
- Tags: Credit Card, Airport Security, Airport Kiosk, Stiennon, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Security lessons from the SoGen debacle
- Jerome Kerviel, the Societe Generale trader that managed to lose more than $7 billion without the bank noticing, is facing charges of fraud and forgery. Security lessons of this debacle abound. As background Societe Generale, the French banking giant, last week said that Kerviel, a 31 year...
- Tags: Bank, Control, SoGen, Stiennon, Financial Services, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
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- The easiest little Web page ever built
- The easiest little Web page ever built"This post is about how "Really? Saw a lot of what and why but not a lot of how.RE: The easiest little Web page ever builtWebalistic works better - straight to webInspirationalThanks for the inspiration. Great idea. I am sure search...
- Tags: Channel management, SEARCH, Web page, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijack
- Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijackInside Jobwhat a coincidence: the driver happened to stop for a paper and candy bar right at the spot where a couple of thieves saw an opportunity to take a van with a couple of cardboard boxes in them. ;)RE: Passports worth £2.5...
- Tags: SECURITY, van, Nate, Passports worth, attack
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...
- Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travel
- It's getaway day and as we prepare to hit the road, trudge through airport security and snag that car rental, spare a thought for the valuable data that travels with you on that trusty old laptop. According to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, more than...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Richard Stiennon, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Moving on
- I travel a lot. It has been almost ten years since I had a job that was based in the same place I live. Whenever I get a call from friends and family the first question I get is "where are you?" People who have known me for...
- Tags: Network, Blog, Blogging, Security, Internet, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Judge releases Wikileaks
- All it took was a little representation. That is one trouble with the US legal system. You have to show up to defend yourself. The guys at Wikileaks.org were effecitvely put out of business by aggressive swiss bankers because they did not show up in court. At a...
- Tags: Domain Names, Blogging, Internet, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Oil field data loss just common theft
- Sighs of relief can be heard coming from Brazil this week as police arrested four men port security guards responsible for heisting some computers that had lots of data from the newly discovered mega-oil-patch off the coast of Brazil. Way back when I was an industry analyst...
- Tags: Brazil, Data Loss, Data, Firewalls, GIS, Network Security, Security, Networking, Software, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Declan on Wikileaks
- The news today is that several free speech advocates are stepping into the fray over Wikileaks. See Declan McCullagh's coverage. I love his syllogism: [Shutting down Wikileaks is] like Apple not liking CNET News.com's scoop a few years ago which it was about the switch to Intel...
- Tags: Internet, Domain Names, Litigation, Blogging, Semiconductors, Processors, Business Operations, Hardware, Components, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Only 8,700 insecure ftp servers?
- According to ComputerWorld coverage Finjan is publicizing a source in Hong Kong they have discovered that offers to sell access to hacked ftp servers. The idea is that a malware purveyor or phisher would want ftp access with admin credentials so they can quickly and easily upload there wares to...
- Tags: Idea, FTP Server, Server, FTP, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- News to know: Windows Server 2008 launch; Hotmail outage; Berners-Lee on semantic Web; Apple
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft courts open-source vendors to support Win Server 2008. Jason Perlow: Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with...
- Tags: Google Inc., MSN Hotmail, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Server, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Photograph, Outage, Apple MacBook Pro, Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- You can keep on asking...
- But you have to ask the right questions. Two senators have sent a letter to 24 US agencies asking them to report on their progress in data protection. This article at Federal Computer Week highlights the woeful state of security compliance at most US agencies. This...
- Tags: Agency, General Accounting Office, Authentication, Advertising & Promotion, Firewalls, Telnet, Security, Marketing, Networking, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- News to know: Adobe launches AIR 1.0; Private IE 8 beta; Apple IIc; Jeremy Allison
- Notable headlines: Adobe to launch AIR 1.0 Techmeme. Putting terabytes of memory into servers, the cheap way Mary Jo Foley: Private IE 8 beta 1 test build coming soon Richard Stiennon: Pakistan removed...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Jeremy Allison, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Beta, Internet, Wireless LANs, E-mail Providers, Open Source, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Pakistan removed from the Internet
- 4:30 PM Eastern US. The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today. Evidently PieNet took this step to...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- Pakistan declares war on YouTube
- What could at first have been just one of those days on the Internet where some newbie engineer accidentally announces a spurious route and takes out a segment of the network has turned into an international fiasco. But no, Pakastan has ordered all ISP's to block YouTube. From Yahoo...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- Pakistan takes out YouTube
- Like I said in a recent post, the Internet is a series of tubes. Sometimes that helps route around malicious legislation and regulators, sometimes it causes big problems. Like today at 2 PM eastern when someone in Pakistan announced a more specific BGP route announcement for the block...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet, BGP, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- Get a clue Morocco
- Get a clue MoroccoIt's illegal...it's illegal to impersonate the royal family in Morocco. and when you do something illegal in any country, you get prosecuted for it. simple as that. the law may seem stupid, but we are not discussing that now.RE: Get a clue MoroccoThe sentence is certainly huge,...
- Tags: goverment, Morocco
- Discussion threads 2008-02-23
- Get a clue Morocco
- Do you ever get the feeling that the people around you are missing out on a major shift in the way the world works? Try explaining lolcats to your grandfather for instance. I feel sorry for the powers that be in Morocco who have sentenced Fouad Mourtada, a guy...
- Tags: Government, Internet, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- TippingPoint tips balance in withdrawal of CFIUS application
- I met Mike Rothman last night for drinks. He was on a once in a lifetime pass through Southfield, Michigan. I found myself acting like many people do in the presence of a knowledgeable industry analyst. I asked questions. One of them was: "What about this 3Com mess?"...
- Tags: Bain, 3Com Corp., TippingPoint Technologies, Government, Ethernet, Vertical Industries, Food & Beverage, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
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