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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2068000/2068276.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_2068000/2068276.stm “Tech managers targeted by cyber criminals” The head of the UK’s cyber police unit has warned that tech managers could become victims of kidnappers and organised crime. Comment from a friend of mine: “as if users weren’t bad enough.”

http://www.radio.gov.uk/publication/ra_info/ra365.htm

bwahahahahahaha… no doubt someone will discover “Crack” and try doing the same to me in the near future, again… http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2064000/2064388.stm

urgh. http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=208505

At the end of the first age, the Dark Lord TQM was slain by the united peoples of Corporate Earth but not all its works were found and destroyed. Some quality managers fled to the upper floors, and lived undiscovered, spreading their venom into the minds of management. A new dark lord, a follower of…

REPORT: MICROSOFT PLANS SECURITY SHIP FOR NEXT WINDOWS Posted June 24, 2002 05:55 Pacific Time MICROSOFT WANTS TO change the fundamental architecture of the PC, adding security hardware prior to the release of the next generation of its Windows operating system around 2004, according to a media report. The Redmond, Wash.-based company wants future PCs…

if you’ve ever come accross Total Quality Management and disliked it, don’t worry as this program has a completely and totally different name. rotfl.

Errrrrrrrrrrr I feel pooped. I have no reason to feel pooped. saturday, got up, went shopping, stopped into the office to send a document to Whit regarding the ES Technology Council security working group. burned some redhat 7.3 CD-r and went home. my mate steve turned up in the evening, diagnosed a hardware problem in…

Amusing paper. Lots of words about what is important. At first blush, not much upon how to deliver it. Alas the paper suffers from yet another security model. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/craig/05-01trustworthywp.asp

mmm… i always reckoned PKI was overrated… After development delays and cost overruns, the Royal Mail has officially pulled the plug on its ViaCode digital certificate project. Launched back in March, 1999, ViaCode was to be an encrypted authentication and email technology for businesses. At the time of its launch, the Royal Mail was looking…

http://www.infosecnews.com/sgold/news/2002/06/19_05.htm Symantec Gets BS 7799 Certified Symantec Corp.’s managed security service operation centers have qualified for the British Standard (BS) 7799 certification. First established in 1995, the BS 7799 certificate is a specification that sets the standard for establishing, implementing and documenting information security management systems. …

According to a report in the Canberra Times, a student with the Australia National University has discovered many biometrics systems can be fooled into giving an ?O.K.’ on verification by using information stored within the software. The student, Chris Hill, postulated in his honors thesis that most biometrics systems contained data derived from the facial…