Legal requirements regarding the data you hold and how you should manage it are not new.
Neither is the Data Protection act (PDF) which outlines the requirements and in effect your responsibilities. The powers of the Data protection commissioner and more to the point the likelihood of inspection have however increased.
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Data protection commissioner inspection. Are you ready?
December 22, 2009
How I Hacked My GirlFriend Hotmail!
September 5, 2009
Soon we will release an ebook that is called “How I Hacked My Girlfriend Hotmail” which will consist in a real life story on how I really hacked her hotmail account. This e-book is informative only and the price will be announced when it’s live. Are you interested?
SQL Injection Attacks by Example
December 4, 2005
A customer asked that we check out his intranet site, which was used by the company’s employees and customers. This was part of a larger security review, and though we’d not actually used SQL injection to penetrate a network before, we were pretty familiar with the general concepts. We were completely successful in this engagement, [...]
Rootkits: The “r00t” of Digital Evil
November 25, 2005
Author: Matthew Vea
Date: 22 November 2005
Summary: Viruses, worms, trojans, spyware and rootkits abound in the maelstorm of modern malware. Rootkits easily stand out as the greatest threat to site security. To combat this growing problem, administrators need to understand how they work.
Source: OmniRed
Background
A rootkit is a collection of software binaries or patches that [...]
The Phishing Guide – Understanding & Preventing Phishing Attacks
July 24, 2005
Phishing is the new 21st Century Crime. Organizations and their customers constantly fall prey to “Phishing Schemes”. While Phishers develop evermore sophisticated attacks, network administrators, and their customers grow wary of system security and the official looking requests that mimic official business requests. This paper covers the technologies and security flaws Phishers exploit to conduct [...]
Phishing: An Interesting Twist On A Common Scam
July 24, 2005
Imagine you are the CIO of a national financial institution and you’ve recently deployed a state of the art online transaction service for your customers. To make sure your company’s network perimeter is secure, you executed two external security assessments and penetration tests. When the final report came in, your company was given a clean [...]
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