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RSA: "We were hacked by a nation state"

Tue, 11/01/2011 - 00:00
Vendor RSA has disclosed new details concerning the server breach in March, saying that RSA is confident that a nation state was behind the attack. RSA president Tom Heiser also apologised for his company's information policy

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Firefox 3D plugin visualizes DOM elements beautifully

Mon, 10/31/2011 - 13:00
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Foreign Office blocked "significant" cyber attack, says GCHQ chief

Mon, 10/31/2011 - 12:57
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Anonymous Threatens to Expose Mexican Drug Cartel

Mon, 10/31/2011 - 05:00
Anonymous said one of its members was kidnapped by the cartel(author unknown)

Nearly A Third Of Execs Say Rogue Mobile Devices Are Linked To Their Networks

Mon, 10/31/2011 - 00:50
Eighty-seven percent think their organizations are at risk of attack via a mobile security lapse(author unknown)

Slides for presentation at QA&TEST 2011

Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:43

Here is the link to my slides which I presented at QA&Test 2011. As ever, these slides are the latest version of the work on UX Test Automation.

UX Test Automation for QAandTEST 2011 (27 Oct 2011)

The main content is identical to the presentation planned for EuroSTAR 2011 21st to 24th November 2011. I may revise the main content again by the time of EuroSTAR, if so, I’ll post the updated material online.

Update: I received the best presentation award at the conference for this presentation

 

 

 

The Eight Traits Of Highly Successful Security Startups

Thu, 10/27/2011 - 09:22
Best new companies are those that are willing to take a chance, SINET study says(author unknown)

Widely used encryption standard is insecure, say experts

Mon, 10/24/2011 - 12:12
A weakness in XML Encryption can be exploited to decrypt sensitive information, researchers say.(author unknown)

When Steve Met Bill: 'It was a kind of weird seduction visit' (Fortune)

Mon, 10/24/2011 - 11:55

Fortune:
When Steve Met Bill: ‘It was a kind of weird seduction visit’  —  Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were the ultimate frenemies.  Read about the roots of their relationship in this exclusive excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new book, Steve Jobs, which hits bookstores today.  —  1985: The young and the restless.

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DDoS, Mobile Attacks Are Top Topics Of Discussion Among Hackers

Mon, 10/17/2011 - 21:18
Study of large online forum finds that hackers have a wide variety of interests(author unknown)

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