For those of you that joined us at RSA this year in San Francisco, you may have taking in the session presented by Jeff Jones and Tim Rains on 10 Years of Tech, Researchers and Threat Evolution. Jeff and Tim followed up with a series of blog posts delving...

Okay, I admit it… I had no real idea going in to a conversation today what the CSUN conference was. It turns out that I am referring to the Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference . The road to it is another question… The team ( Trustworthy...

Having worked with Law Enforcement around the world for many years, there is always a huge demand for tools and resources to help investigations. One such tool is PhotoDNA , which essentially creates something like a fingerprint of an image which can...

I have blogged about using Mouse Without Borders before, but today after installing the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my system I wanted to see if I could get Magic Mouse running. While the computer I installed it on has a basic touch screen, I wanted...

Now I am back from the RSA Conference, I have a few moments to put the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my ASUS EEE Top machine. The fastest way for me to do this considering the machine does not have a DVD drive is to create a bootable USB flash drive with...

Yesterday in Scott Charney’s RSA 2012 keynote , he made reference to a statistic stating that 92.5 percent of respondents believe cybercrime laws need updating. This was one of the many findings of the Trust in Computing research recently conducted...

Whether you here at the RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco, CA or not, you might be interested to know that the keynote Scott Charney delivered this morning is now online. Scott Charney’s RSA keynote this morning outlined evolved security,...

For those of you who were unable to join in this morning at the Cloud Security Alliance Summit 2012, you missed an interesting event. The summit was a mixture of keynotes and panels from folks across the industry. Details can be found here: https://cloudsecurityalliance...

I have now been using the application for a little over a week and I can honestly say that it has changed my geekish life. What is it you ask? Well, quite simply put it is a mouse without borders … Do you have multiple computers on your desk, or wish...

As part of my journey to install Windows Home Server 2011 on my HP MediaSmart EX470 server, I have been looking for useful add-ins and customizations. Below is a list of the ones I have implemented and found useful, though keep in mind that not all are...

In the previous posts in this topic, I have referenced migrating my  HP MediaSmart Server (EX470) to to Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 . During this journey, there have been a number of questions that I have needed to answer to decide on my strategy...

  In my last post, I rebuilt my HP MediaSmart EX470 Server with Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 . The whole process proved to be a little more complex than I had thought given that many people had already achieved and documented the same thing. The...

Thinking about migrating to Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 ? Using an HP MediaSmart Server (EX470 or EX475)? Not sure how where to start? – you may just want to read further… I have had a Windows Home Server for several years and after reading many reviews...

I don’t often do this, but I have an ask of everyone… If you have a Facebook account, here is a way you can help support a good friend of mine ( Paul Gillespie ) achieve something REALLY important. The deal is this: the Kids Internet Safety Alliance ...

Join the Ottawa Area Security Klatch ( OASK.ca ) on Tuesday May 18th for our discussion on Mariposa 'The Life Story'. Talk #1: Mariposa 'The Life Story' Speaker: Matt Thompson and Matt Sully from Defence Intelligence The Mariposa botnet compromised millions...

Hi Folks… if you are in Ottawa on the 27th May and looking for training on Risk Management / Threat Risk Assessments, this is one I would encourage you to take a look at! Join the High Tech Crime and Investigation Association (HTCIA) Ottawa Chapter, Thursday...

Ever wondered how you can patch your off-line VM’s? A while ago we released a free tool called the Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST). We have just released the beta for the new version (3.0). VMST 3.0 helps you more effectively—and safely—manage the...

While presenting at the HP, Teramach and Microsoft Business Continuity event yesterday I was asked a number of questions about demonstrations of Hyper-V and SCVMM. I have a couple of suggestions for you… If you want to get some hands on experience, you...

I do tweet on occasion but if you have met me, you will know that I am verbose and so I find working with 140 chars a challenge… however the MSRC folks in Redmond now have a twitter account: Feel free to follow them @MSFTSecResponse . Or you can follow...

As you all know, without SCVMM, moving VMs manually (for example when doing an upgrade of a server or rebuilding a cluster etc) is not just a copy and paste scenario. A good friend of mine; John Kadianos from Hyper Technologies ( www.hypert.com ) shared...

Okay now I have your attention… I wanted to share some resources with you for students.. We have launched a new Student Portal that provides a whole whack of info,  program links, discounts, jobs and many other opportunities for students across Canada...

AKA: What will happen to your data if the Sasquatch attacks? I rarely post about this type of event these days but wanted to bring this to your attention (not just because I am presenting at the Ottawa event).. Have you ever wondered about whether to...

Note: I have to confess up front that I cannot take credit for this list, but it was recently forwarded to me and I wanted to share… As a follow on from my post on performance, here is a set of resources that are Microsoft and 3rd party that might be...

Over the last few weeks,  I have had numerous requests from folks asking about case studies. I.e. what are other people doing and how is it working for them. So here goes… Here is a short list of some of the Canadian case studies and Microsoft Resources...

If you have played around with XPMode on Windows 7, then you will know that you needed support for hardware virtualization to run it… This was a barrier for some where you got an error message like this: What many of you may have found is that while the...