Archive for December, 2007
PCI Compliance
I’ve been browsing through a PCI Compliance book. This gives a good approach on how to secure your framework if nothing else. Of course you can get yourself PCI compliant but there have been a few teething problems, changes and some countries can’t keep up with PCI. From a testing point of view, it usually [...]
Know where you are NOT!
We are off to Liverpool now. The home of 2005 European champions of football. There has been recent spate of burglaries to a number of Liverpool of players. So much so they are considering to hire a security company to protect their worldly possessions. All this is happening due to a simple fact that the [...]
Wikiscanner and wikileaks
Wikipedia is the well-known free content encyclopedia, which allows anyone in the world to edit, update and modify data. As a consequence, the information at wikipedia may be wrong and can be misleading as an education resource.
As mentioned anyone can “edit” content. Some can be done anonymously. But there have been situations where controversial content [...]
Databases – Too big to be secure?
I was interested in hearing on the radio, comments from someone at Cambridge University. Richard Clayton from lightbluetouchpaper claims that databases are too centralised. The impact of data leaks are very high as a consequence. He feels that databases have become too big (e.g. a government database has information of every site/location in one database) [...]
Facebook sues
Interesting that Facebook is suing a group of Canadians for attempting compromise their site. The article isn’t clear as to how the attempt was made. But once again, you should always be careful if you want to scan your favourite site without permission…
