Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Digital Security & Governance for SMEs at Northumbria University. The purpose of the event was to help SMEs better understand that threats targeting their information systems, their responsibilities in securing personally identifiable information (PII) and to introduce NUWARP
Category archives: Legal
Securely wiping a drive with dd
Cleaning the harddrive of any machine, be it desktop, laptop or server, before either repurposing or selling (or even scrapping), should be a basic requirement of any organisation. But there is a seemingly unrelenting stream of reported incident, some of which coming from organisations that really should know better, MI6 and military contractors for example. […]
Phorm e-Petition Response
Quick heads up to anyone following the Phorm/privacy debates: The government’s response to an e-petition to ask the government to stop ISP’s from breaching privacy laws has been released. The full response can be read here, it’s fairly short so I won’t go into too much detail, but I’m glad to see the government is […]
BBC, Botnet, Ethical, Legal?
New story seems to be everywhere at the moment. It appears that the BBC has ‘investigated’ the impact of botnets by hiring a 22,000 strong herd and ‘testing’ on there systems, but still utilising 22,000 compromised, private machines. Original BBC article is here. There have been many sites (The Register and The Guardian) have asked […]