Ben introduces us to Simon Honey, who is the co-Chair of the FIRST Corporate Executive Programme.Simon Honey is the Business Protection Director for Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc (MUSI) based in London and has been...

Following the release of its Active Management Technology (AMT) to the corporate PC marketplace last year, I gather that Intel is planning to release the system for use in low-cost consumer PCs later this year.The move follows...

In this FIRST Security Podcast, Ben Chai discusses with Bob Ayers on the issues associated with individual liberties vs. National Security. Bob is currently the Vice President for Homeland Security for Selex Sensors and Airborne...

I could not help but reflect on one of Stathakopoulos’s parting shots at his keynote speech. Many of our security conventions seem to place the white hacker on a pedestal. Stathakopoulos sited an example of this in how the...

I have to say that the presenters here at FIRST seem to be on a totally different brain level to the rest of the planet. I think the gist from listening to Stephano Zanero’s presentation on Flaws and Frauds in the evaluation of...

Yesterday, Wednesday, was the official opening day of the FIRST conference. I must confess to being totally bedraggled after the last four nights of festivities. As a recap, the weekend was spent at the FIRST Train the Trainers...

Wednesday’s opening ended with the Gala Dinner at a real live Hacienda. If you aren’t already aware according to some figures there were security professionals from 49 different countries attending. Trying to work out whether...

One well attended all day track at FIRST was the System Network and Security Log Analysis for Incident Response track run by Anton Chuvakin of LogLogic. Unfortunately I was unable to attend this talk although I heard many good...

The need to ensure fast and intelligible information flows between Computer Emergency Response Teams when vendors report vulnerabilities was the lead topic this week when FIRST’s Vendor SIG convened in Seville.Altogether 24...

Aepona, a supplier of Service Network products and solutions to telecoms operators worldwide, announced it s new Voice Call Continuity (VCC) solution for wireline and broadband service providers. Aepona goes beyond mere call...

UK citizens are “walking like sheep, bleating,” into a total surveillance society, Bob Ayers, of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) warned today at the 19th Annual Conference of FIRST, the Forum of...

A mother (who is also a former cop) gets in trouble over sippy cup."I demanded to speak to a TSA [Transportation Security Administration] supervisor who asked me if the water in the sippy cup was ‘nursery water or other bottled...

Whilst listening to Stephano Zanero’s talk at FIRST, in passing he uses the phrase “zoo viruses”. A quick search of the term gets me the following definition from Escorcher.These are viruses that luckily did not succeed in...

In today's Daily FIRST Security podcast, our resident security expert Ben Chai brings us fresh interview excerpts fromBob Ayers (from Chatham House)Ray Stanton (from BT) andSimon Honey (Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International...

One of the best keynote speakers of this conference so far has to be George Stathakopoulos (general Manager of Product Security for Microsoft). Essentially George took us through the history of how the Microsoft security team...

With 75 per cent of IT projects failing, late or over budget, UK companies are spending an estimated £5.81 billion per year on technology that does not meet its needs. However, this figure could be slashed by more than a third if...

MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that Gumtree.com -- one of the world's fastest growing online community websites, and the UK's biggest site for local community classifieds --...

Ben Chai meets up with Ray Stanton for a few words about FIRST. Mr. Ray Stanton is the Global Head of the Business Continuity, Security and Governance practice for BT Global Services.His presentation at FIRST (The Benefits of...

From today, UK online centres across England will start to offer myguide to their customers. For those who think computers and the internet are too complicated, too expensive, just for the young or just not for them, it could be...

Major record labels are still fighting the piracy battles of 1997 according to a leading rock musician and digital rights activist. Blur drummer Dave Rowntree told OUT-LAW that they should have realised in 1997 that their battle...

Prince Charles has won a legal victory in his privacy battle against the Mail on Sunday. The House of Lords said that it will not hear a case involving the newspaper and the royal.The Mail on Sunday published excerpts from the...

IBM's ISS X-Force operation says that the phishing community (fx: spit -Ed) had a busy week last week, as the IT security specialist logged an incredible 100,000-plus new phishing sites.Yup, that's tight, the content research...

A run of spam this weekend looks something like this:From: Martha [fake email address]Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:56 PMTo:Subject: Martha sent you a endeny(d0t)hk! GreetingSurprise! You've just received a endeny(d0t)hk!...