Religion isn’t usually something that I comment on. Whilst I have my own beliefs, its not something I shout about from the rooftops. However, I felt compelled to comment on something I have just watched on TV. Louis Theroux has just done a documentary which was aired in the UK on the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas (purposely not hyperlinked so as not to increase their profile). I am a… Read More »There’s nothing quite a queer as folk
Mark Diodati from the Burton Group has posted a good article about how customers currently perceive Identity services within their enterprise. Several times whilst reading the article I found myself nodding in agreement since what he talks about is exactly what I have seen on client sites. Worth a read! Technorati Tags: identity, standards, working group, burton
Like many people, in order to try and analyse the traffic to my site, I have signed up to Feedburner. Hopefully, the plug- in from Steve Smith will mean that the transition is painless. However, do let me know if you have any problems with the feed. In case you want to update your RSS reader directly, my new feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentitySecurityMe Technorati Tags: feedburner, rss, feeds
Following the release of WordPress 2.1.2 earlier this month, I have finally got round to installing the upgrade. I have also upgraded and re-activated most of my plug-ins. The only one which currently isn’t configured yet is the “OpenID for Comments” plugin. Hopefully, I will get this done shortly. I also plan on trying out a number of new plugins in the near future. Please let me know if you… Read More »WordPress 2.1.2 Update
Dave Kearns has published an article talking about online banking security and showing the results of a recent survey. On a related note, I was surprised when I recently signed up to a new online banking service. After going through the usual registration process and waiting to be mailed my password etc, I finally went online. Being the conscious security professional that I am, I immediately went to change my… Read More »Online banking passwords
Microsoft Puts FoxPro Out to Pasture It was with a certain amount of nostalgia that I read today that Microsoft will be open sourcing the core of FoxPro, one of its DBMS that it bought some years back. Whilst I haven’t used this database for about 15 years, it was the main database that I wrote an application on for one of my university modules. I actually wrote a sunbed… Read More »FoxPro – Bringing back memories
After my recent post responding to Paul Squire’s comments on steganography, I see from the TrueCrypt website that v4.3 has now been released. The main addition to this version seems to be the support for Vista. As a new user of Vista (see my earlier post), this was a welcome announcement. Check out the release notes here. Technorati Tags: encryption, security, vista
Jason Kolb recently posted his cynical view ( 🙂 ) of AOL and their announcement to support OpenID for all of their users. Whilst I can’t disagree with Jason’s thoughts around AOL’s motives, he does make one comment which I found quite funny.“So AOL brings their 13 million subscribers give or take a few million (probably take) to the table, MAYBE a million of whom will actually know what to… Read More »Optimistic numbers of techno-savvy OpenID users
One of my good friends, Paul Squires recently posted an comment on steganography. The main thrust of his article was about the problems with encryption, in that it quite often easy to tell that there is encrypted data in the first place. Meaning that under the laws of RIPA you could be forced to divulge your private keys and allow the authorities to access your encrypted information. Paul goes on… Read More »Steganography and plausible deniability
Last Friday night was the Red Nose Day in the UK. As usual the BBC ran Comic Relief on BBC1 for pretty much all of Friday night. It took the usual format of: 1) a comedy sketch2) a depressing report on poverty etc3) repeat 1 & 2 The reports were particularly depressing with celebrity after celebrity publicising the plight of the less fortunate both in the UK and the third… Read More »A rollercoaster of emotions