Dropsafe

Just testing a new bit of functionality. Hope this works. It looks like i am going to be in the Bay Area for the Technical Leadership Conference in San Jose’s Hyatt Hotel, arriving on Monday 10th June and leaving on Thursday 13th (eek!) I would stay slightly longer, but to do so would lock me…

Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music’s elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a decidedly low-tech method: scribbling around the rim of a disk with a felt-tip marker. Internet newsgroups have been circulating news of the discovery for the past week, and in typical newsgroup style, users have pilloried Sony for using “high-tech” copy…

By John Cox, Network World, 05/20/02 Security issues are consuming network executives’ thoughts, although not necessarily dictating their spending priorities, according to the ninth annual Network World 500 survey. Securing the corporate network, improving disaster-recovery systems and building VPNs accounted for three of the top five most important issues among network executives interviewed. Security-related issues…

From Slashdot… It was recently reported in eWeek that “A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed.” (Emphasis…

Culled from and/or contributed to http://www.ntk.net/ Morwenstowe NSA Listening Station http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=220507&y=112750&scale=25000&rt=overlay.htm Menwith Hill NSA Listening Station http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=420500&y=457000&scale=25000&rt=overlay.htm Chicksands DF station http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=510500&y=239500&scale=25000&rt=overlay.htm Aldermaston Nuclear Weapons Establishment http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=460000&y=164000&scale=50000&rt=overlay.htm Fylingdales AEW Station http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=486500&y=497000&scale=25000&rt=overlay.htm …aren’t WWW mapping websites, wonderful?

From the latest Crypto-Gram – http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html Fun with Fingerprint Readers Tsutomu Matsumoto, a Japanese cryptographer, recently decided to look at biometric fingerprint devices. These are security systems that attempt to identify people based on their fingerprint. For years the companies selling these devices have claimed that they are very secure, and that it is almost…

Business leaders are offered advice on protecting themselves from cyberattack, as the UK government is urged to take a more active lead in IT security Security experts have warned that e-security is dangerously poor in the UK, with most British firms failing to give enough attention to managing information risks. The Information Assurance Advisory Council…

I have been all three of these in the past 4 days. The thursday works BBQ went fine; at the drop of a hat it got moved back two hours, so I went to the supermarket and blew 200 quid on ingredients; got home, whizzed up a cherry-tomato and caper salad, baked spuds, green salad,…

http://www.snort.org/ Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) created by Norman Roesch. Snort is a packet sniffer that monitors network traffic in real time, scrutinizing each packet closely to detect a dangerous payload or suspicious anomalies. Snort is based on libpcap (for library packet capture), a tool that is widely used in…

Posted May 16, 2002 10:03 Pacific Time RSA SECURITY AND Sun Microsystems announced a joint sales, engineering and marketing agreement Thursday to integrate several of their network security products, an alliance the companies say will offer customers a complete security package and help administrators protect services and assets accessible through the Internet. RSA’s ClearTrust Web…

archive web page created. should speed downloads.

…and, good heavens, the weather forecast was correct. Bright, sunny, warm… I got in late to the training (had real life to attend to in the morning) and am just wrapping up e-mail, etc, whilst Dave and Ray do an excellent job of combining education and experimentation. We are re-convening at my house later this…