The girl who quit her job

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You may have seen the original posting here:
But what you didn’t see were the unseen photo’s!!!
Enjoy
 

 

It’s a Bit Emotional

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A few days ago my wife gave birth to a baby boy. I remember my Dad telling me that when I was born he had to send a telegram to let his parents know the good(?) news. But times have changed, who needs a telegram when you have a mobile phone?
Like all other information security [...]

ID Fraud, The Non-Violent Crime

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Much gets said about ID fraud. Is it a victimless crime? Does it have links with violent crime? Amongst all the hype how do we differentiate between fact and fiction? So I was very interested to hear that Sir Jester had compiled a report on ID theft. I then spent half a day, bribing, threatening [...]

Cynic Bytes: An interview with Fortify

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At Infosec Europe 2010 in Earls court, we spoke with Barmac Meftah of Fortify who shared his views on the industry and what Fortify is doing in their space.

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Cynic Bytes: An interview with Cyber-Ark

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We caught up with Mark Fulbrook of Cyber-Ark at Infosec Europe 2010 in Earls court and discuss how in both good times and bad, Infosec is a boom industry.

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Cynic Bytes: An interview with Credant

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At Infosec Europe 2010, we had a chance to catch up with Sean Glynn of Credant who shared his views with us on Credants latest products and current security challenges.
 

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Cynic Bytes: An interview with Tufin

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At Infosec Europe 2010 we had a chance to catch up with David and Michael of Tufin where we discussed who’s got a face for radio, why it’s a good idea to bring along your finance team and how a Tufin employee caused London’s traffic to grind to a halt.
 

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Cynic Bytes: An interview with ISACA

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As part of our series of interviews that we conducted at Infosec Europe 2010, we caught up with Roger Southgate of ISACA where he shared some of his views.
 

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Superglue Accident

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  Information Security professionals aren’t just clever in their given field of work, but they are usually quite observant beings. Which is why we had a good old laugh when we were sent in a picture of German chancellor Angela Merkel and her alleged superglue accident.
But it appears this phenomenon isn’t just restricted to [...]

Infosec Cynic Show Episode 8

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It’s been a great season, but like all good things, everything must come to an end and here we are at the end of our first season. We’ve had a great time making this pilot season and we hope that you’ve enjoyed watching it too. We hope to be back later in the year with [...]

Cynical Bytes: Interview with Napatech

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At Infosec Europe 2010, we had a chance to catch up with Daniel Joseph Barry of Napatech where he took the time to explain to us all about their awesome network security devices.

Cynic Bytes: an Interview with Varonis

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At Infosec Europe 2010 we got a chance to catch up with many vendors who shared their useful insights and thoughts about information security.
We spoke with David Gibson of Varonis who gave us the low-down on structured and semi-structured data.

Cynic Bytes: Interview with Varonis from Infosec Cynic on Vimeo.

Infosec Cynic Show Episode 7

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Here comes a slightly delayed episode 7 of the Infosec Cynic show, but our technical team, fuelled by caffeine and threats of unemployment have worked tirelessly to bring you this super-cynical episode. Our resident cynics Javvad and Georgina question whether all Security Products have anything to do with security or are they just marketed as [...]

Infosec Cynic Show Episode 6

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On this weeks entertaining episode of Infosec Cynic, we have a special guest in Ruth Jacobs from Barclay Simpson talking about the Infosec job market, the weirdest types of emails they receive and how they can tell when a candidate is lying on their CV. Ruth also gets a chance to interview our resident [...]

Infosec Cynic Show Episode 5

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Our Cynics are back in action this week, discussing fake Facebook logo’s and Polish priests. Georgina  challenges Javvad to try and bypass the security controls on her laptop. Will she succeed? Or will Javvad take another step towards world domination… and who is this mysterious Peter Stevens guy? It’s all in this action-packed episode [...]

Cynic Bytes: An interview with Brian Honan

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At Infosec this year, Javvad got the opportunity to catch up with Brian Honan. For those of you who don’t know who Brian is, shame on you!
Brian is a security consultant, author, blogger Founder and Head of Irelands first CSIRT.
Watch the video to hear his pearls of wisdom.
 
 

Infosec Cynic Show Episode 4

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In this episode our hosts catch up with the Director of Marmalade Box, Mr Bruce Hallas where he shares his insights into the world of Information Security. How can you ensure your employee’s won’t walk away with your database, and why trust is such an important factor in cross business communications.
 
 

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White Hat Rally 2010

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Team Cynic has officially thrown it’s not so white hat into the ring and challenge a bunch of inferior security companies and professionals in the White Hat Rally 2010.
The rally takes place over 3 days starting from Laon in France to Venice in Italy with the organisers throwing in a few challenges along the [...]

Episode 3: Infosec Cynic Show

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We are back this week in the studio for another action-packed instalment of The Infosec Cynic Show.
In this episode, our Cynics Javvad and Georgina cover issues such as a website that helps thieves rob you, a not so secure combination lock, Argos sending out credit card numbers in emails and look into seeing if [...]

Social Media Policy

The following is a transcript of a conversation that is taking place in corporations around the world. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
          BOSS Hey low-paid over-worked consultant, I want you to write my company a social media policy.
          CYNIC Err I [...]