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 [...]

So I’m officially on my holidays. I’ve even managed to switch off my blackberry and mobile so I can completely relax.
I tend to find the holiday period quite boring to be honest. Yes, the kids are off school, but its so cold that you’re stuck indoors with them most of the days and there’s only [...]

Large corporations and governments are slow. Very slow. Even with all their ‘blue sky thinking’ and ‘forward planning’ it takes them a lifetime to get anything done. Naturally information security being one of the casualties of corporate inertia.
Smaller ‘dynamic’ companies are so much easier to influence and make positive changes to. You need anything done [...]

Like many men, I rarely throw anything away. Especially anything with wires, batteries, or made of wood ends up in the garage. Just in case some day, like the A-team my house gets stormed by a bunch of no-good generic villains with scars, eye patches and dodgy accents. They’d probably lock me up in my [...]