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Pirates target phones

qr

No one can accuse spammers of a lack of innovation!

Check out this entry on the Websense security labs blog (Spam Emails Link to QR Codes)

Posted by Carlton Duston on 18 Jan 2012 | 0 comments
Tagged with Blog, Spam, None

Technology, meet psychology

brain

It’s probably the biggest unspoken about problem in our industry today, it’s greatest challenge and the most persistent enemy of real security.

Posted by Carlton Duston on 12 Sep 2011 | 0 comments
Tagged with Blog, Opinion, None

Mapping Normal

map

You can’t fix what you can’t see.

It’s a simple but often over looked reality driven home to IT support people every day.

Posted by Carlton Duston on 23 Aug 2011 | 0 comments
Tagged with Blog, Opinion, None

Just some snippets

conflict

It’s been pretty busy lately so I’m just posting a few of the more interesting stories I’ve come across recently.

At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, two researchers demonstrated

Posted by Carlton Duston on 8 Aug 2011 | 0 comments
Tagged with Blog, Opinion, None

The pussies at Monsanto

pussy

Hands up if you like Secunia - ‘cos I love them.

Anyone who helps cut through the blizzard of vulnerabilities we live with every month is tops by me.

Posted by Carlton Duston on 18 Jul 2011 | 0 comments
Tagged with Blog, Opinion, None

Drugs in prisons

police

Prison guard, Manu Stanley Jensen pleaded guilty to two charges of corruption after he admitted smuggling cannabis to a prisoner in Tongariro-Rangipo prison in New Zealand’s mid North Island.

“I

Posted by Carlton Duston on 11 Jul 2011 | 0 comments
Tagged with Blog, Opinion, None

Death of the Howard defence

exploded

In the year 2001 we were all still basking in the warm glow of the best Olympics ever and John Howard was prime minister of Australia on the cusp a federal election.

Posted by Carlton Duston on 1 Jul 2011 | 0 comments
Tagged with Blog, Opinion, None

US Navy buys fake Chinese chips

Chinese

Came across this doozie of a story where a US Navy contractor bought 59,000 microchips from China because they were cheaper, but it turned out they had a backdoor in them.

Posted by Carlton Duston on 30 Jun 2011 | 0 comments
Tagged with News, Opinion, None

When is it hacking?

damned

My dictionary is new enough to include this definition of the word hacking; gain unauthorized access to.

Posted by Carlton Duston on 20 Jun 2011 | 0 comments
Tagged with Blog, Opinion, None

The noise, the noise

angry

Here is the lamentation of a man mourning the death of the engineer, the one who’s profession is built on the truth.

Posted by Carlton Duston on 17 Jun 2011 | 0 comments
Tagged with Blog, Opinion, None



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