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Alec Muffett
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Alec Muffett is a veteran security geek who believes strongly in common sense, full disclosure, defence in depth, privacy, integrity, simplicity and open source. He is an independent consultant, writer, and speaker specialising in security education.
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Nominet: a website, by any other name, would be more secure?
Nominet propose to allow domain names directly under ".uk"; this is better?
by Alec Muffett
So Nominet - the people who own, manage and monetise the top-level .uk DNS domain - propose to allow creation of domain names directly under the UK suffix (PDF). Thus instead of inflatable-widgets.co.uk you could instead own inflatable-widgets.uk, and it...
October 5, 2012 2:59 PM Read Full Post
Why is nobody crowing about 'Critical National Infrastructure'?
O2 went dark; RBS/NatWest/Ulster Bank died. Surely the Government ought to tell us what to do?
by Alec Muffett
Much cybersecurity planning is couched in terms of we must protect critical national infrastructure - but when a bank goofs a software upgrade and commits transactional suicide for a week (or more, see Ulster Bank) - and when an entire...
July 12, 2012 11:45 AM Read Full Post
If it turns out that LinkedIn passwords have leaked...
...here's what you should do
by Alec Muffett
Rumours are circulating on the net that a database of hashes of LinkedIn passwords has been published on a Russian hacker site. I cannot confirm this but if the article referred to above is correct then there is a risk...
June 6, 2012 12:31 PM Read Full Post
Chinese Cyberwarriors in your Chips?
Perhaps, but the Cambridge ones are more interesting
by Alec Muffett
The security interwebs this morning are alive with reference to Sergei Skorobogatov's webpage at Cambridge, the key quote from which is: We developed breakthrough silicon chip scanning technology to investigate these claims. We chose an American military chip that is...
May 28, 2012 8:32 AM Read Full Post
Ask Alec: Security for Freelance Developers and SMEs
What do you do to be secure when you're on your own?
by Alec Muffett
So in my mailbox a few weeks ago there arrived the following: Hi Alec I was wondering whether you'd mind doing me a small favour. It'd be great if you could punt out a quick top 5 / top 10...
May 22, 2012 3:26 PM Read Full Post
Cybersecurity: Demand An Evidence-Based Approach
Beware Secondhand Statistics; Beware Creating Them
by Alec Muffett
In the days before the SOPA blackout a popular meme infected the interwebs: Dear Congress: It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works Directed at the US Government this article and its related discussion decried the...
May 8, 2012 11:34 PM Read Full Post
Still Scrambling For Safety
Time for old magic in the debate on CCDP
by Alec Muffett
Dateline: the late 1990s; in the USA and UK there is fear and debate over development of new technology which renders moot the "existing capability" of Government agencies to intercept internet communication - thereby risking intelligence (even that which cannot...
April 12, 2012 9:33 PM Read Full Post
Surveillance? The Liberal Democrats aren't supporting it...
The Home Office wants to log with whom you communicate, wherever and however, just in case you're naughty - but the Liberal Democrats object...
by Alec Muffett
It's been a good few months for surveillance, its practitioners and its supply industry - barnstorming industry conferences, massive media coverage of technology and puff pieces on government projects stateside ... oh, wait, is this meant to be covert? Oops....
March 23, 2012 1:48 PM Read Full Post
Learning about Cybersecurity from an Unnatural World
Radio 4 on Security: Bio, Cyber or otherwise...
by Alec Muffett
I was listening to the rerun of File On 4[1] this evening, and a chap from the FBI said something very sensible about Cybersecurity. Albeit the programme itself was nothing to do with cybersecurity and its tone was mildly hysterical...
February 13, 2012 12:00 AM Read Full Post
Digital Darwinism: Perspectives for Industry and Government
A term which will soon see greater use, but it would be nice for the nuances to be understood
by Alec Muffett
A few days ago I spoke on a panel at PICTFOR - the Parliamentary ICT Forum - some writeups of which have been posted elsewhere; but a few days prior in preparation myself and some friends had the opportunity to...
February 10, 2012 1:35 PM Read Full Post
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