Chairing and Cheering First

What is it like being a Chairman and a Vice Chair for FIRST?  Long time steering committee member, Kennneth R Van Wyk has given his time to work in both of these positions and others. In this short podcast Ken shares with us what the roles involve and the importance of FIRST to the global security community.

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

Can We Really Trust Data?

Continuing a series of blogs on the Microsoft Trusted Stack model, Ben Chai looks at whether we can ever really trust data.

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

Can We Ever Trust People?

Can we ever trust any kind of identity module?  What if everyone had a chip to identify them and this chip was required to logon to a computer, network or the internet?  Would this be failsafe?  We think not.  Here's why.

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

Trusted Stack Issues

Ben begins a series on perceived issues with the Microsoft Trusted Stack model

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

The Saga Continues : Yet Another Microsoft's Big Push To Acquire Yahoo

Microsoft has made yet another attempt to take over a part of Yahoo. According to recent reports, the software company is not going to give up convincing Yahoo Search to surrender itself

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

YouTube User Privacy Under Threat As Judge Orders Google To Give User Information To Viacom

Following a lawsuit between Viacom and Google, Judge Stanton has asked Google to release the records of all the people who ever saw a video on YouTube to Viacom

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Virgin Warns Its Customers To Play Safe With File Sharing

Customers of Virgin’s broadband connection were in for a shock as they received letters that told them that they had been sharing music illegally

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

US Government And Civil Liberties Groups In Face Off Over Cell Phone Tracking Practices

Civil Liberties Groups have sued the US Government over their actions used to track individuals through cell phones

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

OpenMoko's Neo FreeRunner Is Ready to Run

Taiwanese device manufacturer, OpenMoko, is all set to hit the market with the Neo FreeRunner, a sleek touch screen handset

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

A million cards hacked - and counting

Fascinating to read some of the local news reports in the US about how some of the smaller banks are handling the fallout from the recent rash of card database hacks.

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

EU cybercrime initiative is going to be expensive for ISPs

I was interested to see a report over on Betanews that European ISPs are more than a bit concerned about the cost of complying with EU cybercrime proposals, but how one expert says it could cost them more if they don't comply.

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

First Conference Liaison Podcast

In this podcast, Peter Allor of IBM tells Ben Chai what it’s like being the FIRST 2008 Conference Liaison and the importance of this role for the FIRST membership.

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

Microsoft and FIRST Security Podcast

In this three minute podcast, Ben Chai finds out why George Stathakopolous, general manager of security at Microsoft enjoys being at FIRST.

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

The Trusted Stack

What is the trusted stack and how can it help improve your overal security posture? This blog looks at why it was necessary for Microsoft to further evolve their SD3 with layered defence strategy.

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

BBFC Backs New Games Rating System after reviewing Byron's report

Settling the game developers concerns over the expected delays and price hikes because of the rating system proposed in Byron's report, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has stated that the new system won't be taxing to the customers

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Hackers Attack Sony PlayStation Website

According to Sophos, an IT security firm, hackers have made their way to the official website of Sony's PlayStation

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Microsoft's Office Subscription Service Ready To Hit The Market

Microsoft has recently declared that Circuit City will soon be the first to offer an all new Microsoft Office subscription service

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Fiber Optic Overtakes Cable As 6.7m Users Join Broadband Foray Worldwide

Data compiled by research firm Point Topic reveals that in Q1 2008 fibre optic broadband for the first time added more subscribers than cable

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0.135a1330

Virus protection, product customization, and free virus database updates

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Software

The Missing Links : Linking Front and Back Office Functions to Staff Workflow

To achieve effective customer based process management it is necessary to implement the right technologies that seamlessly link front and back office functions and staff workflow

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Symantec: 80 per cent of all email is spam

I was listening to the podcast version of The Bottom Line - Evan Davies' excellent radio program which is broadcast on BBC R4 each Saturday - last night and was intrigued to hear John Brigden, the executive vice president of Symantec talking about email.

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Citibank ATMs hit by advanced hackers

Interesting - from a technical perspective - to hear that Citibank's ATMs in the States has been hit by a sophisticated hack.

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Beyond SD3

Back in 2001, Microsoft's security strategy was originally the 3Ds

• Secure by Design
• Secure by Default and
• Secure in Deployment

Since then they have evolved this strategy to cope with the modern day threat landscape.

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

End to End Trust – The Next Security Era?

End to End Trust - a new framework for secure business transactions.  What is it and how does it work?  This blog is based on George Stathakopolous, general manager of security engineering and communications at Microsoft Keynotes talk at FIRST 2008.

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: FIRST 2008

C.B.Learning Debuts Official Microsoft Online Learning : Managed, Simple, Cost-effective

As an official provider of Microsoft Online Learning, C.B.Learning unveils the next generation of IT skills training. Discover the simple route to training success. Sign up for a free Microsoft course today

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Special reports