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Phorm over function?
Tuesday, April 22nd 2008
Phorm is, and will continue to be for some time I think a hugely divisive issue online. BBC have another story today about it, this time having spoken to the various security companies like F-Secure, McAffee etc about…
Security 101 : The user should be able to authenticate
Saturday, March 15th 2008
Security needs to be appropriate to the value of the asset it protects.
The state of Oz technology
Thursday, January 31st 2008
Rarely does an entire country entice me to start ranting (and at this point I'll point out I am in fact Australian) but by crikey Australian technology hasn't really moved in the last 5 years. Now I appreciate this is a…
PCI DSS will wreak havoc on SMEs
Friday, November 30th 2007
One of my clients was asking me about PCI DSS certification today. Coincidentally I also received our letter about compulsory compliance to the PCI DSS standard. Both of us are what are termed "Level 4 Merchants" - that…
Why was data being passed on a disc and what was EDS' advice?
Wednesday, November 21st 2007
Readers in the UK will be aware of a Data Protection Act train crash that we have been watching unfold in front of us over the last few days. It turns out that 25 million records of a database managed by HMRC have been…