With an 87% global market share, it’s no wonder that Android devices are attracting malware authors like circling vultures – much to Apple’s delight. There’s a kind of hackers’ arms race going on as they compete to plant nastier and nastier bugs on Android phones. The latest arrival is ransomware, which infects and encrypts your files then (sometimes) releases your… Read more »
In the popular American Football movie ‘Any Given Sunday’, a near burnt-out coach played by Al Pacino somehow digs out an inspirational half-time speech in a crucial game that turns his team’s fortunes and his own life around. His theme is that, in sport and in life, the gap between success and failure is measured in inches and you have… Read more »
Recent reports that one part of the Russian security service has been driven to return to typewriters through fear of data leaks is a comic case of the world coming full circle for IT industry watchers of a certain age. Back in the day when the IBM PC was first launched and we all started on the path to consumerisation,… Read more »
Following last weekend’s Glastonbury Festival, many baby-boomer security professionals will be back at their desks buoyed by the performance of the Rolling Stones. The ageing rockers’ ability to win over a much younger audience with 70s classics like ‘Can’t Get No Satisfaction’ has in fact provided a lot of satisfaction to their peers that the older generation still have something… Read more »
» Listen or download now on the podcasts page » The Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is the bogeyman of information security. Some people say ‘be afraid, be very afraid’ while others laugh and deny its very existence. The problem, of course, is one of definition. Too often the term gets stretched to fit whatever point someone is trying to make, or… Read more »
With the fourth NATO Conference on Cyber-Conflict (CyCon) still in progress, it seems almost churlish to ask whether a military alliance from the Cold War – created to prevent Soviet tanks from rolling over Europe – is really the right organisation to be hosting these discussions. The conference is taking place in the mediaeval old-town section of Estonia’s capital, Tallinn… Read more »