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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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DNSSEC: exchanging one threat for another?
A new, wonderful security technology... until some muppet gets ahold of it.
by Alec Muffett
Security geeks have a permanent blind spot: "potential for misapplication of security technology." The problem also afflicts scientists in science-fiction B-movies where the giant robot decides that it wants to serve mankind crispy-fried and the story ends by reflecting on...
November 25, 2010 1:39 PM Read Full Post
Friday Feed: Wikileaks, Firesheep, and Government Interception
Loose ends for the week ending 29 October 2010
by Alec Muffett
Cloud Computing Considered Subversive Earlier this week I noted that WikiLeaks was using Amazon's EC2 Cloud Computing servers for distribution of the Iraq War Logs; some argued that it was strange to host the data on US servers - as...
October 29, 2010 10:56 AM Read Full Post
WikiLeaks is mirroring on Amazon and some people don't get it?
Cloud Computing to the fore in high-bandwidth information sharing drama!
by Alec Muffett
So WikiLeaks has been mirroring / hosting their war logs on Amazon's Cloud: Since at least Friday night, the famous whistle-blowing site has been hosting data on Amazon's AWS infrastructure cloud, both in the US and Ireland, records collected...
October 26, 2010 10:42 AM Read Full Post
Government recycles 2009 Symantec Threat Report as strategic defence review cyberjustification
The Home Office needs to learn what "Threat Signature" means
by Alec Muffett
Responding to the challenge I placed in my last post, Simon Waters directed my attention to the Symantec Global Internet Security Threat Report trends for 2009. I think he's nailed it. You'll recall that Home Secretary Theresa May was interviewed...
October 19, 2010 11:22 PM Read Full Post
Wanna Cyber?
We must wait patiently for the other cybershoe to drop.
by Alec Muffett
Two things are clear after cybermonday's cyberhoohah cyberregarding cybersecurity: First: no-one in government has yet Googled the phrase "wanna cyber?" else they'd know that to an adolescent demographic "cyber" when used as a noun or verb means "cybersex" or "to...
October 19, 2010 6:00 AM Read Full Post
CyberSecurity: please don't throw government money at this nonsense
The Coalition will fund me an antivirus upgrade?
by Alec Muffett
The best thing - the absolute best thing - about being an unaffiliated security blogger on CWUK is that you're guaranteed daily to have something new to discuss, and you're free to say exactly what you think. Consider this article from...
October 15, 2010 1:40 PM Read Full Post
SEO is a security issue...
You, your site and link shorteners
by Alec Muffett
SEO leads to verbosity, verbosity leads to redirection, and redirection leads to risk The acronym URL is so common today that we may have forgotten that it stands for Uniform Resource Locator. There are other words - URI, IRI...
October 13, 2010 3:33 PM Read Full Post
It's "Computer MOT" time again, everyone
Microsoft and monoculture
by Alec Muffett
Microsoft's Trusted Computing Veep suggests vetting anything and everything which touches the 'Net. Perhaps this is not such a good idea? Security wonks can generally be placed on a 3D - or perhaps more-D - spectrum: on one axis there...
October 10, 2010 2:59 PM Read Full Post
Blackberry suffering blight
Yet another security threat to the platform beloved of Enterprise users
by Alec Muffett
Cooking, like security, is both art and craft; you must understand both what to do and what not to do in order to create something that is fit for purpose. Consider a turnip: boil one, mince it in a food-processor...
October 8, 2010 12:59 PM Read Full Post
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