Speak to anyone born before 1975 and they’ll harp on about ‘the good old days’ and how the younger generation of today have everything too easy.
Naturally, being born after 1975, I disagree with the viewpoint. Take education for example. In the olden days you packed kids off to whichever boarding school was furthest from where [...]

So apparently the courts have deemed it fine to release a labour peer from jail, even though he was texting on his mobile whilst travelling on the motorway, had a crash and killed 28 year old Martyn Gombar.
Of course, what else would you expect from a country who bought you such lovelies as Garry Glitter, [...]

It gets quite scary when the Government admits that it will cross all moral boundaries in order to prevent those terrorist networks with sleeper cells living right next door to you.
There have been many column inches and heated debates devoted to the security versus privacy argument. How much privacy are you willing to give up [...]

Amongst banks going bankrupt and the economy ever-spiralling downwards, the one thing you can bet on will happen all the time is data loss. Whether it be a payment firm being breached, a retailer with an unsecured network, or employee’s walking out of the office with gigs worth of company sensitive information.
On the flip-side, amidst [...]

Being a man, I have to make blow everything out of proportion when it comes to little aches, pains, headaches and man-flu’s. More often than not, I’ve gone to the Dr. convinced that some bone is fractured into small fragments and that I’ll need bolts and cables to repair them only to be told its [...]

It appears as if USB memory devices are one of the most useful yet dangerous tools ever developed.
Freeing people from the labour of carrying boxes filled with 1.4″ floppy drives, being capable of sharing songs, photos, documents and presentations with ease have made memory sticks very popular.
On the flipside, company’s sometimes use these small, easy [...]

These days if you lift up a rock in your garden, you’ll find fifty different types of infosec types crawling around.
You have the consultants, the IT guru’s, the managers who are neither consultants or IT gurus. In addition you have sub-divisions such as forensic analysts and penetration testers. Or parallel streams as auditors, assurance, risk [...]

So it’s the beginning of 2009 and most people are either struggling re-adjusting to work after the holidays or wishing they hadn’t made those over-ambitious new year resolutions.
Well rather than doing the infosec resolutions for 2009, I thought I’d do something far more interesting and write a risk forecast for the upcoming year.
Now I know [...]