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Like most people I have an opinion. I hold pretty strong opinions about certain topics, one of which is user security education. In "real life", we tell our children and our families: "Dont trust everything you see and read". "Don't accept candy from
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No doubt there are going to be people reading this with stories of their own. My story was prompted by a read of (my now new favourite site) www.stupidsecurity.com in which airport security let a guy take a chainsaw on the plane but not someone with toe
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I remember a long time ago when I actually did do "real work", I did a statewide tour helping a government agency on a new desktop replacement rollout. Part of the job was switching out hard drives for bigger ones and the reimaging them with the new SOE.
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My direct colleague Jeff Alexander and our chief security officer here in Australia, Peter Watson together did a podcast with ITRadio's Patrick Gray while at AusCERT recently. Jeff talked all about one of my favourite technologies, Network Access Protection
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I read this article from Angus today with much amusement. Apparently Vista is more insecure than Windows 2000. I found this really very funny. Why? The number of virus infections found by a virus vendor does not necessarily equal poor security. In many
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Recently I've been thinking more and more about the problem of end user risk. It was prompted by some discussions with a small company here who lamented that they had to place extreme policy controls in place because their users would "wreck it " otherwise...
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I was reading the Australian Reseller News article today on wireless security . It had me intrigued that people seem to equate wireless security with a costly deployment. "...Three quarters of respondents said that security spending was going to rise
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This is news that really turns heads! The Common Criteria standard (through the evaluation of the Australian DSD (Defense Signals Directorate)) is in the process of evaluating Windows Mobile 5 and 6 for EAL 2+ . That really highlights the moves Windows
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