Castelain blog articles
Posted Monday, February 8, 2010 - 13:56 by Alex Taverner
1. “We’ll tidy the code up later…” – no, you won’t. (See ‘Service Pack’ below)
2. “We’ll do the security bit afterwards…” – and there goes Miss Piggy drag racing a Boeing 767.
Posted Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 08:35 by Dimitrios Gatso...
There are a number of basic guidelines that may be used to promote a culture of security awareness and effective operational security within an organisation.
Security Awareness
Posted Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 09:14 by Dimitrios Gatso...
Wireless networks seem to be everywhere. The problem is that they do not seem to be secure. The general issue is that of awareness. The average home computer user has no awareness of the abuse potential that an unsecured wireless access point invites.
Posted Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 09:12 by Alex Taverner
Can you have too much Security? I know it sounds strange coming from a Security consultant, but it’s a question that I believe more people should be asking.
Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 13:18 by Paul Cuthbert
The Internet is a dangerous place, and it’s not getting better. The number and severity of security breaches is going up. Identity theft is on the rise, and still more commerce is conducted online. As security professionals we all know this, but why is it the case?
Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 02:10 by Dimitrios Gatso...
I learnt about the World of Warcraft with the release of Warcraft II way back in 1995. Who would have projected that the future iteration of the Warcraft series, World of Warcarft (WoW) would be such a world wide phenomenon? World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment.
Posted Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 18:47 by Debi Moffat
Back in March I wrote about how to protect your privacy when using Facebook. One of the pieces of advice I gave was not to install any of the multitude of applications available – unless you have a really good reason for doing so.
Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 15:14 by Debi Moffat
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) has been around since the early 2000’s. It started out as a security feature – enabling organisations to interrogate messages and make sure they aren’t concealing a virus or other nasty content, before forwarding them on to their destination.
Posted Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 15:12 by David Perry
I’ve just read Robert Harris’ book ENIGMA which inspired me to watch the video starring Kate Winslet as plain (!) Hester and to do some digging into the cryptography behind the story. Some background… The Enigma machine was developed in the 1920s to encrypt text for commercial purposes, and was adapted and improved by the German military.
Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 17:29 by Alex Taverner
Did you know that a significant number of wireless hotspots in New York are provided by organised cyber-crime syndicates? These hotspots are used to facilitate identity theft and man-in-the-middle attacks against people connecting to them.
